C4ML Director Mick Noel reports that he is excited and impressed with the ad hoc cooperative ministry venture that is emerging in Philadelphia. Inclusively crossing denominational lines the group is meeting regularly to discuss how to bless the city by working together to raise up dozens of mission focused church plants while assisting established congregations [...]

We are happy to welcome to the C4ML Board of Reference Mr. Randall G. Moyer. Randall is the president of Moyer Specialty Foods in Hatfield, PA, a distributor of Dried Fruits, nuts, and Candies in the tri- state area. Randall became owner of the business in 1998.
He has a B.S. in Biblical Studies and Organizational [...]

Community Education at Biblical Seminary
If you have a love for the Scriptures and a desire to know God’s Word better, consider the new community education classes offered at Biblical Seminary this fall. “The Story of the Old Testament,” a six week class, starts Thursday, September 25 from 7-9 p.m. Cost: $79. Call Rigel at 215-368-5000, [...]

Missional in Suburbia Conference
A one-day conference with the author of “The Suburban Christian,” Al Hsu
Al Hsu is an associate editor at InterVarsity Press. He is the author of Singles at the Crossroads, Grieving a Suicide, and most recently, The Suburban Christian: Finding Spiritual Vitality in the Land of Plenty.
“God always shows up in the most [...]

C4ML Director Mick Noel recently announced that his organization has reached a tentative agreement to establish a ministry partnership with MissionInsite. This one year old organization provides web based tools for understanding ministry context. MissionInsite’s tools will become an integral part of the second phase of C4ML’s Missional Leadership Lab process.
Noel says, “We will utilize [...]

In April, Grace Bible Fellowship Church of Wallingford, PA, held its first annual “Community Impact Conference”. Typically this spring weekend is reserved as a second glimpse–the first glimpse being a week-long missions conference in October–at the global mission of God. But this year the leadership of Grace Church decided to use this weekend to help [...]

Sometimes you need to get out of the country to fully appreciate the ministry you can have in your own backyard. This is true for the eight teenagers we took to France over spring break. We worked alongside church planters who lead a small congregation in a suburb of Paris and are active in the [...]

Mick Noel and Eddie Gibbs, our speaker at the recent C4ML Symposium: “Leadership in Turbulent Times”
Coming Soon: Video clips from Dr. Gibbs presentation. Stay tuned…

Mick Noel, Director of C4ML announced today that in the month of April C4ML surpassed the 100 hour mark for hours of coaching provided to students and ministry clients since C4ML began its ministry 22 months ago.
“Studies demonstrate that there is at least a 25% increase in the productivity of those who receive coaching,” according [...]

“Mick Noel has announced that Dr. Ed Stetzer who serves as missiologist in residence with LifeWay . . .will join the DMin Faculty in 2009 to lead the ‘Entering the Missional Conversation’ seminar.
ED STETZER has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia. He has trained pastors [...]