{"id":129,"date":"2013-02-13T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teraranga.chchcatholic.nz\/?p=129"},"modified":"2020-02-04T01:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T01:11:46","slug":"church-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/church-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_9192.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_9192-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Christchurch Cathedral\" class=\"wp-image-1036\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are about 300 churches alive and active in the Greater Christchurch area. &nbsp; If every church had over 500 people attending, still less than half of the city would be in our churches. &nbsp;Whilst there are people to be reached, there is room for more churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A team of leaders who have been&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;by pastors and leaders as having a role in church planting in the city have been meeting to see what could be put in place to welcome and serve church planters and church planting movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One resource that has been made available is the Fresh Expressions Mission-Shaped Ministry (<strong>msm<\/strong>)&nbsp;Course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>msm<\/strong>&nbsp;trains Christians in church planting, disciple-making and evangelism. Please go to the UK website for more information:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshexpressions.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.freshexpressions.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who is&nbsp;<strong>msm<\/strong>&nbsp;for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>those with a vision for mission in 21st century Canterbury and who want their churches to be more effecti<br>ve in mission<\/li><li>promising young leaders who want to know more about church planting and discipleship<\/li><li>experienced leaders who want to reflect on their ministries and leadership<\/li><li>urban, suburban and rural contexts.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A course of 10 sessions starting in February 2013 in Christchurch is being hosted by Theology House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">email &nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:admin@theologyhouse.ac.nz\">admin@theologyhouse.ac.nz<\/a>&nbsp;for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are about 300 churches alive and active in the Greater Christchurch area. &nbsp; If every church had over 500 people attending, still less than half of the city would be in our churches. &nbsp;Whilst there are people to be reached, there is room for more churches. A team of leaders who have been&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;by pastors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raranga.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}