The Philosophy

This is where I introduce you to Short Cycle Church Planting. 



The funny story behind this:

[Context:  Summer 2008, engaged roughly 8 weeks]
Josh came home from his summer internship at Avant and announced that we were going to do "Short Cycle Church Planting" which  was basically planting a church in five years.  He was very excited.  My response though was probably not what he was expecting and / or hoping for.  "That's dumb.  That's not going to work."  And that was pretty much all I said.  Discussion over for the next five months.

A year later...
I had actually been a paid employee of Avant for about six weeks when I finally was convinced.  Seriously, it took that long.  But it was a light bulb.  And God was obviously saying - this is what missions looks like in the 21st century.  Go.