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How do pastors start residencies? Should they begin with leaders in their church or draw from people outside of their congregation? On this episode, Dhati Lewis and Clint Clifton* talk about how pastors and church planters can practically start residency programs and raise up missional leaders from within their congregation.

*Clint Clifton passed away on January 12, 2023, as a result of a small plane crash. Clint and his wife, Jennifer, had been married since 2000 and have five children. Clint founded Pillar Church in Dumfries, Virginia, in 2005 and served as Senior Director of Resource and Research Strategy for the North American Mission Board.

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“70% of kids who grew up in good churches walk away from Jesus in college,” said Troy Nesbitt, Director of the Salt Network. The college campus is littered with prodigals and students who have never been exposed to Christianity. Learn why and how church plants can reach this demographic as Dhati Lewis and Troy Nesbitt talk about their strategy behind planting churches on major university campuses and why reaching the next generation is vital.

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To see Acts 2 lived out today, you need not look any further than university age students living out their faith. Meeting daily, breaking bread, praying and studying God’s Word regularly—there’s perhaps no easier place to model Acts 2 than on the campus. This week, Dhati Lewis interviews Ed Kang, lead pastor of Gracepoint Church, as he shares about how they develop and train leaders on the college campus toward the vision of having “an Acts 2 church in every college town.”

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“I wanted to quit so many times,” said James Roberson, lead pastor and church planter of The Bridge Church in Brooklyn, New York. On this episode of We are Send Network Roberson vulnerably shares the unique challenges and fears of planting a church in New York and two essential aspects of church planting anywhere.

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Martin Vargas planted Iglesia Church out of a deep need in his community. Forty percent of the people in his community were Spanish-speaking residents, but there were no healthy Spanish-speaking churches in Hollywood, Florida. This week on We Are Send Network, Dhati Lewis sits down with Martin Vargas, lead pastor of Iglesia Church in Florida, to talk about Vargas’ church planting story and his heart to discover and develop three types of church planting leaders in his community and across the world.

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No one has ever said being a multiplying church is easy. At Lifepoint Church, it’s not uncommon for life groups to become churches—and with church multiplication comes the reality of saying goodbye to key leaders and friends. On this episode of We are Send Network Dhati Lewis interviews Dean Fulks, lead pastor at Lifepoint Church in Columbus, Ohio, about how they became a multiplying church through their life groups, the sacrifice of being a multiplying church and the essentials of church planting.

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Rob Wilton, founder and pastor of Vintage Church in New Orleans and Pittsburgh sits down with Dhati Lewis, Vice President of Send Network and founder and pastor of Blueprint Church in Atlanta, to talk about church planting at home and in a new city.

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We say we love the lost, but do the lost feel loved by us? This week, Dhati Lewis interviews Sean Sears, lead pastor at Grace Church in Boston to discuss the need for church planters to have relationships with non-Christians, and how planters can equip their members to do the same.

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Everyone has trauma. It’s the great divider in our nation and our relationships, and it keeps us from intimacy and healing. This week, Dhati Lewis interviews Chip Dodd, author of Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living, to discuss how we overcome trauma through feeling our feelings, telling the truth to the right people and giving ourselves back to a process that allows us to respond to life, not react to it.

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