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IFCA International Church Planting
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Vision America
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IFCA's Church Extension agencies are the natural expression of our stated purpose:
"to strengthen local churches toward biblical maturity, leading to reproduction."
Each of these individual and independent agencies are inter-related, however, as member organizations of IFCA International and they are ministering with a common purpose in their particular region of the country. This web-site is dedicated to providing resources to assist toward that purpose, and to telling the story of the reproduction of IFCA International churches wherever it may take place.
A history of IFCA church planting: "Landmarks and Milestones" by Henry Vosburgh, surveys the first 50 years of IFCA Church Extension, into the present century. For details on how to obtain your copy, contact the author.
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VISION AMERICA - An Opportunity to Step Forward
A man took his friend for a ride one day way out in the country. They drove off the main road and drove through groves of trees to a large uninhabited expanse of land. A few horses were grazing, and a couple of old shacks remained. The man, Walter, stopped the car, got out, and started to describe with great vividness the wonderful things he was going to build. He wanted his friend Arthur to buy some of the land surrounding his project to get in on the ground floor.
But Arthur thought to himself, “Who in the world is going to drive twenty-five miles for this crazy project? The logistics of the venture are staggering.”
And so Walter explained to his friend Arthur, "I can handle the main project myself. But it will take all my money. But the land bordering it, where we're standing now, will in just a couple of years be jammed with hotels and restaurants and convention halls to accommodate the people who will come to spend their entire vacation here." He continued, "I want you to have the first chance at this surrounding acreage, because in the next five years it will increase in value several hundred times."
"What could I say? I knew he was wrong," Arthur said years later. "I knew that he had let this dream get the best of his common sense, so I mumbled something about a tight-money situation and promised that I would look into the whole thing a little later on."
"Later on will be too late," Walter cautioned Arthur as they walked back to the car. "You'd better move on it right now."
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PLANTERS NEWS is the "e-newspaper" of IFCA Church Planting. The articles contained in the listing below are snapshots and reports of what is happening from day to day in the ministry of IFCA International Church Planting agencies. If you have a news item that you would like to see listed here, please submit it by using this form.
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Have a church planting related web-resource that has proved helpful to you and that you would like to suggest for inclusion in the IFCA Church Planting Resource Center? Please click on the image above and let us know so that we can consider including it. Thanks!
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Do you have church planting related material that could be a valuable help to other church planters? We'd like to consider it for inclusion in the IFCA Church Planting Resource Center. Please click on the image above and attach the material to the e-mail message. Be sure to include source and contact information in case we need to contact you. Thanks!
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