This has been an exciting year at Riverview as we expanded the capacity of our Holt Venue, launched a new Church Planting Residency with our MSU Venue, and began preparations for another church plant within the next year. We are also gearing up to send over 200 people to Mazatlan, Mexico on short term mission trips [...]
Church Planting is a big part of what we are all about at Riv. To that end, we partner with Acts29 for the assessment of Church Planters and their ongoing support and coaching. We decided to team up with them was because they do a better job than anyone at digging into the life of [...]
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Detroit with the guys from Restore Church. One of the highlights of the day for me was a tour of old abandoned church buildings. For me it was a reminder of Jesus’ words to Peter: “I will build my church, and the [...]
My friend Darrin Patrick has published a book that I am very excited about. It’s called “Church Planter” and you can find it here. I haven’t had a chance to read it, although I am hoping to while I’m flying later on this week. I’ll post a review of it soon (although, unless he really [...]