Dustin Serns
Dustin loves helping people win in Jesus’ mission. He has seen God work miracles to revitalize a small aging church where he served to grow and activate 30+ young adults in ministry as well as plant a new missional Adventist church reaching unchurched young professionals and families in Tacoma, WA. Dustin currently serves as full-time church planter of LifeBridge Church and is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry in Growing and Multiplying Churches. His wife Caitlin, daughter Quinn and son Joel are the joy of his life.
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What could we do to see a change? Jesus works miracles. In four years,
our church grew 64% in attendance with over 30 young adults.
Read this inspiring story of God's miracles and what He taught us about empowering young adults in the mission through the process.
You just came up with an exciting idea for a new ministry. It will make a big difference for the mission. How can you recruit a strong, committed team ministry team to effectively carry it out?
Whether you are coaching a leader in building their ministry team or starting a new ministry yourself, here are some basic, yet powerful practices that can help people buy-in and sacrifice for the ministry vision.
Read this short article to discover "Five Ways to Recruit an Incredible Ministry Team."
Understand 4 leadership mindsets from the National Football League: Referee, Running back, Quarterback, Coach. Choose to adopt the ministry mindset that leads to multiplying leaders.
"One of the most life-changing things I have ever done is start a daily prayer journal. What started out as a few minutes a day has grown into often more than an hour. I used to think I didn’t have time to spend in prayer in the morning. But after I tried it, I began to realize how much more I can accomplish when I take the time to start my day right. The God of the universe lovingly invites us to connect with Him in prayer every morning. Our moments in prayer become Jesus’ greatest treasures, and ours as well."
Find out from Mary Lee's story.
Find out the four simple, powerful steps we took and the way God did miracles!
WATCH- To watch video recordings of the tour online visit https://www.youtube.com/top7tours
ARTICLE- "Hi! I'm leading a free tour of the top seven attractions of the British Museum. We're going to look at 4,000 years in 45 minutes..." I stood on the front steps of one of the most prestigious archaeological museums in the world, recruiting visitors to check out my tour.
"What's the catch?" everyone wanted to know.
(Open the article to keep reading)
When you don't have many, or any, young adults in your church, what do you do?
Here are four things that ANYONE in ANY CHURCH can do to activate young adults in your church whether you don't have many or any.
To answer this question, we decided to look at at statistics from the last century of church planting and population growth in North America. We hope that the findings of this study will benefit the global church.
We also identified the top conferences in church planting in the last decade and interviewed leaders from all levels of the church to find out what they were doing that was working to multiply churches in their areas. What could God do to raise a Spirit-led Adventist church-planting movement in North America?
In the first century A.D. the Christian church was raised up as a rapidly expanding church planting movement. In the 1800s the Adventist church was raised up as a rapidly expanding church planting movement. The Seventh-day Adventist Church experienced explosive growth, launching a movement that spread and continues to advance across the world. Today, 150 years later, the time has come to ask, How are we doing with raising up new congregations to finish the harvest in North America?
To answer this question, we decided to look at at statistics from the last century of church planting and population growth in North America. We hope that the findings of this study will benefit the global church.
We also identified the top conferences in church planting in the last decade and interviewed leaders from all levels of the church to find out what they were doing that was working to multiply churches in their areas. What could God do to raise a Spirit-led Adventist church-planting movement in North America?
What could we do to see a change? Jesus works miracles. In four years,
our church grew 64% in attendance with over 30 young adults.
Read this inspiring story of God's miracles and what He taught us about empowering young adults in the mission through the process.
You just came up with an exciting idea for a new ministry. It will make a big difference for the mission. How can you recruit a strong, committed team ministry team to effectively carry it out?
Whether you are coaching a leader in building their ministry team or starting a new ministry yourself, here are some basic, yet powerful practices that can help people buy-in and sacrifice for the ministry vision.
Read this short article to discover "Five Ways to Recruit an Incredible Ministry Team."
Understand 4 leadership mindsets from the National Football League: Referee, Running back, Quarterback, Coach. Choose to adopt the ministry mindset that leads to multiplying leaders.
"One of the most life-changing things I have ever done is start a daily prayer journal. What started out as a few minutes a day has grown into often more than an hour. I used to think I didn’t have time to spend in prayer in the morning. But after I tried it, I began to realize how much more I can accomplish when I take the time to start my day right. The God of the universe lovingly invites us to connect with Him in prayer every morning. Our moments in prayer become Jesus’ greatest treasures, and ours as well."
Find out from Mary Lee's story.
Find out the four simple, powerful steps we took and the way God did miracles!
WATCH- To watch video recordings of the tour online visit https://www.youtube.com/top7tours
ARTICLE- "Hi! I'm leading a free tour of the top seven attractions of the British Museum. We're going to look at 4,000 years in 45 minutes..." I stood on the front steps of one of the most prestigious archaeological museums in the world, recruiting visitors to check out my tour.
"What's the catch?" everyone wanted to know.
(Open the article to keep reading)
When you don't have many, or any, young adults in your church, what do you do?
Here are four things that ANYONE in ANY CHURCH can do to activate young adults in your church whether you don't have many or any.
To answer this question, we decided to look at at statistics from the last century of church planting and population growth in North America. We hope that the findings of this study will benefit the global church.
We also identified the top conferences in church planting in the last decade and interviewed leaders from all levels of the church to find out what they were doing that was working to multiply churches in their areas. What could God do to raise a Spirit-led Adventist church-planting movement in North America?
In the first century A.D. the Christian church was raised up as a rapidly expanding church planting movement. In the 1800s the Adventist church was raised up as a rapidly expanding church planting movement. The Seventh-day Adventist Church experienced explosive growth, launching a movement that spread and continues to advance across the world. Today, 150 years later, the time has come to ask, How are we doing with raising up new congregations to finish the harvest in North America?
To answer this question, we decided to look at at statistics from the last century of church planting and population growth in North America. We hope that the findings of this study will benefit the global church.
We also identified the top conferences in church planting in the last decade and interviewed leaders from all levels of the church to find out what they were doing that was working to multiply churches in their areas. What could God do to raise a Spirit-led Adventist church-planting movement in North America?