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Hospitable Church is a grant-funded pilot program initiated by Asbury Theological Seminary. With the Hospitable Church Certification, Asbury Seminary seeks to equip alumni churches with the tools needed to train pastors, leaders, and congregants on the needs of neurodiverse and/or special needs children and their families within their communities and develop a hospitable environment for […]

Church planting 2.0 is fundamentally missional. It spawns new micro-communities of faith exploration by going to the lost, rather than asking them to come to us. We start these micro-communities in pubs, in malls, in theaters, in coffee shops, and other non-traditional locations. In other words, we go where the lost are already gathering.

The Church Planting Initiative’s latest resource will be released this month. Check here for more details on the Church Planting Initiative, as well as directions to keep informed on their latest resources!

Rev. Dr. Stanley John serves as Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is author of “Transnational Religious Organization and Practice: A Contextual Analysis of Kerala Pentecostal Churches in Kuwait” (Brill, 2018). His research and writing focus on the intersection of world Christianity, […]

The Asbury Seminary Church Planting Initiative (CPI) connects, trains, and mobilizes God’s people to plant and ReMission reproducing churches in every context. Originally tasked with training 800 church planters by 2023, the Church Planting Initiative quickly expanded its goal and its focus to include assessment tools, personal coaching, and annual fellowship grants for selected planters. […]

Asbury Theological Seminary seeks to equip 1,000 new church planters by the year 2023. To accomplish that, Asbury Seminary offers a Master of Arts [Intercultural Studies] with specialization in Church Planting, hosted a Global Summit in Manchester, England, and has launched Church Planting Institutes (CPI) in Houston, Montreal, Memphis, Washington D.C., and Orlando. Master of […]

Dr. John Oswalt returned to the Asbury Theological Seminary faculty in 2009 as visiting distinguished professor of Old Testament. This is his third term on Asbury Theological Seminary’s faculty, having first served from 1970 to 1982 as professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages, and again from 1989 to 1999 as Professor of Old Testament. […]

by Art McPhee – Asbury Faculty Fifty Scholarships Asbury Theological Seminary has announced a major emphasis on church planting. It includes the introduction of a new MA degree in the fall, as well as church planting specializations in other degree programs. Moreover, fifty full scholarships are available to qualified students. To me, that is exciting […]

By Dr. Winfield Bevins, Director, Church Planting Initiative and speaker at Ministry Conference, March 16-19, 2015   There is a church planting movement happening right now all around the world. It is causing a rapid multiplication of new disciples of Christ across denominational lines and cultural divides. God is raising up a new generation of […]

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