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Communication - Phil Pringle

Communicating vision From Phil Pringle. Here are some quotes you might enjoy

• People in a dark room want to turn the light on.
• They want to see where they can walk.
• Communication in an organisation turns the light on for everyone.
• People do not function well in the dark.
• Absence of communication leaves people in the dark.
• Fear, distrust, suspicion, gossip and rumour all fester in this dark.
• Trust, faith and security make an organisation healthy.
• Communicate with people all the time.
• Arrange systems of communications.
• Use all the technology available to maintain open lines.
• Any military strategist will tell you that an army without communications is a defeated army.
• Turn the light on in your families, your workplace, your networks.
• Communicate!

The power of vision - 3C

C3 2020 Vision V1

One of the crucial elements of any church planting movement and leadership in general is the ability to create a compelling vision. What are people going to buy into? Where are we going? Christian City Church is one of the fastest growing Church planting Movements in Australia. Hearing Phil Pringle cast a vision for the 3C movement it's no wonder why!

Meet some of my heroes!

Meet some of my heroes!

Hey click on this and get a glimpse of some of the heroes of our church planting family!

Luke 10 - it only works if we lay down our lives like Jesus did

Floyd McClung's CPx students have returned from outreach ... I love some of the 'Jesus comments' he writes

... When Jesus sent out the 70 they came back with joy because of what God did through them. Jesus affirmed them, he taught them, and he corrected them. And he invited them to be leaders in the movement he started to change the world.

Jesus didn't come to waste his time or life for nothing. When we debrief the 70 we sent out we will invite them to give their lives for the same cause Jesus lived and died for. We believe in the power of the gospel to transform lives, but it only works if we lay down our lives like Jesus did.

Our 70 disciple/leaders are students in CPx, a discipleship/leadership training program. Many of them are enlisting with All Nations full time to keep on making disciples and training leaders and planting churches. Others will return to their home churches or movements to do the same thing. Others are going into the market place to make disciples and start simple churches.

Doing what Jesus did is the most important thing a person can do with their life. It's the most important thing a person can do to help change Africa. The non-Muslim parts of Africa have been evangelized many times over. But they have not been discipled.

The world doesn't need more decisions - it needs disciples, and disciple making leaders. It needs men and women who have had their hearts and minds transformed by the gospel, men and women who don't ask what they get out of it, but what they can do to give their life away.

In CPx we teach principles and practices to start disciple making, simple church planting movements, just like Jesus did. We do it in the market place and in the nations.

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The Job's not done!

Ever thought that the mission stories of old... of finding those lost tribes who never had outside contact with the world... were no longer possible? Well think again. There are over 100 tribes still in the Amazon basin that have never been touched by the outside world. Wow. I remember being in Manaus Brazil in the early 90's and hearing from the YWAMers the radical stories of camping by the tributries waiting for such tribes. And finding them. And the adventures that followed. They were talking back then of over 100 tribes that were still to be reached in the Amazon. Where are the pioneers of today?

The Age reports .... One of Envira River in flights over remote Acre state, said the government foundation, known as Funai.

Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said today. The Indians were sighted in an Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the

Funai said it photographed "strong and healthy" warriors, six huts and a large planted area. But it was not known to which tribe they belonged, Funai said. "Four distinct isolated peoples exist in this region, whom we have accompanied for 20 years," Funai expert Jose Carlos Meirelles Junior said in a statement.

Survival International said the Indians are in danger from illegal logging in Peru, which is driving uncontacted tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated 500 uncontacted Indians now living on the Brazilian side.

There are more than 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, most of them in Brazil and Peru, the group said in a statement. "These pictures are further evidence that uncontacted tribes really do exist," Survival director Stephen Corry said.

"The world needs to wake up to this and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct."