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In a society rife with biblical illiteracy and moral relativism, the Acts 29 church planting network has partnered with Grimké Seminary to train church planters in theological clarity and cultural engagement.
President of Acts 29 Matt Chandler speaks during Exponential East Conference in Orlando, Florida. | Exponential
Church planting is God s primary mission strategy for expanding His work â and every member of the Body of Christ has a role to play in bringing the message of Jesus Christ to people in all contexts, the head of a global church planting network has said.Â
âChurch planting is critical to fulfilling the mission of Jesus. Itâs a myth that there are enough churches already. We need to be treating North America as a mission field in the same way that we in the West have oftentimes seen the rest of the world,â Brian Howard, executive director of Acts 29, told The Christian Post.Â
Church planting is God's primary mission strategy for expanding His work and every member of the Body of Christ has a role to play in bringing the message of Jesus Christ to people in all contexts, the head of a global church planting network has said.
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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly was born enslaved in Dinwiddie County in 1818. For more than thirty-seven years, she labored for three different branches of the Armistead Burwell family. At fourteen, she began ten years of bondage in the household of Burwell’s eldest son, a minister in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where she endured repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults and eventually gave birth to a son. Sent back to Virginia, she was enslaved in the household of Anne Burwell Garland and her husband, Hugh Garland. In 1847, Garland moved his household to St. Louis. By then a skilled seamstress, Keckly was hired out as a dressmaker to support the impoverished family. After several years of negotiations, Garland agreed to Keckly’s proposal to buy her and her son’s freedom. Keckly married James Keckly, with whom she lived in St. Louis for eight years. In 1860, Keckly left her husband and moved to Washington, D.C., where she established herself as a seamstress to the capital�