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The Value of a Triad

The Value of a Triad

  • Posted on August 20, 2015
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Finding three Christians to start a Q Place together can be challenging, but it is well worth the effort! A few years ago, Emily Capo Sauerman wrote about her experience with two friends who started a Q Place with her in Chicago. Her story speaks for itself in showing the value of starting with a triad: As for me, I am so thankful for my fellow initiators. Every time we meet I feel refreshed just talking with them. I can see in them a strong desire to share their faith, not because they are supposed to, but because they see their...Read more …

Jesus 3:12

In March we launched a new pilot church strategy based on what Jesus modeled in the context of His relationship with three of the twelve apostles: Peter, James and John. Even in the most intense time of His preparation for the cross, Jesus worked intentionally and specifically with these three, showing them the way to follow Him. We’re calling this strategy “Jesus 3:12.” Just like Jesus did, we believe that a powerful way to make disciples relationally is to start with a triad—three committed followers of Jesus who spend time praying together, growing together in the Word, and taking action...Read more …

REVITALIZE

Every year Q Place holds a 3-day event specifically for Q Place Catalysts. Called “Revitalize,” this event is designed to recharge our Catalysts and to inform them about the most recent Q Place developments. On April 16-18, about 40 Catalysts attended, and many described this year’s event as “the best one ever.” The dictionary defines a “catalyst” as a person who precipitates an event or change. It goes on to say that a catalyst’s talk, enthusiasm, or energy creates the proper conditions for that change. Q Place Catalysts fit this definition perfectly because wherever they go, the winds of change begin...Read more …

VITAL!

This past year we have embarked on a new VITAL journey. Rather than planning and carrying out a new 3-day event once a year in the Chicago area, we are now holding regional 1-day VITAL events all over the country. The purpose of the event is more focused: to find and inspire people who would like to start Q Places and church leaders who would like to start Q Place Ministries. We found a ministry friend in Hugh Halter, who shared his experience and challenged the attendees at each VITAL event—to rethink what it could look like to live out...Read more …

Q Place on the radio!

Imagine turning on your favorite Christian radio station as you commute home or opening a daily email because you subscribed, and hearing a “brought to you from Q-Place” one-minute challenge encouraging you and believers everywhere to interact with people in ways that help them see Jesus. Guess what? This is now reality! Here’s how it happened and what it means to you: For the past eight years, Jeff Klein, the Midwest Regional Leader for Q Place, and his wife, Pam, have written, produced, and recorded a daily one-minute radio spot called Walk the Way. Walk the Way encourages Christians not just to talk about...Read more …

The President’s Corner

The classic movie, Oliver, is one of my favorites; especially because of that famous scene in which young Oliver Twist holds his bowl in front of his face and dares to ask the scowling Mr. Bumble for more porridge. “Please, sir, I want some more.” At Q Place we believe the spiritually hungry are often like Oliver, longing for something substantial to fill the emptiness inside, but what they experience from Christians is similar to what Oliver did with Mr. Bumble. They are often met with a suspicious gaze, dished up with an unsolicited Gospel presentation and not met at...Read more …

A Way to Help Q Places Multiply—Coming May 19!

As a ministry, Q Place has taken on the challenge of figuring out how to spread and support this approach that is touching a strong chord with people in a post-modern culture. We want to help more and more Christians come on board and become equipped and supported as they engage relationally in ongoing conversations about God with people around them. We believe that God has guided us in developing one key aspect of support, which we are thrilled to launch later this month. On May 19th, at www.QPlace.com, we will be launching a brand new multi-faceted membership resource called...Read more …

President’s Corner

  • Posted on November 7, 2014
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Dear friends, Welcome to the first edition of our new digital newsletter, “On Q”! Our title is a play on words with the idiom “on cue” which means, “an indication that the time has come.” In the performing arts, actors are expected to pay attention to the cues so that they can deliver their lines “on cue,” at just the right time. At Q Place we believe that the time has come for a new paradigm shift in evangelism, so that all Christians can partner with God in what he’s doing in the world to redeem it. As a ministry we...Read more …

Get Pumped: Spiritual Fitness at the YMCA

  • Posted on November 7, 2014
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Deanna had a question. As she filled out the paperwork needed to volunteer at her local YMCA, she wondered about the first part of the Y’s mission statement: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all Clearly, the YMCA does well with physical fitness, and its after-school programs help build minds. But Deanna’s question was this: What does the YMCA do to help people build spiritual fitness? In many local YMCAs, the answer is, unfortunately, not much. Deanna’s question pointed her to an opportunity. As she watched people coming through...Read more …
Q Place Goes to Michigan

Q Place Goes to Michigan

  • Posted on November 7, 2014
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Detroit area workshop yields a record-breaking response. When Jeff Klein, Midwest regional leader, stood up at the front of the Highland Park Baptist Church meeting room, he was amazed to see table after table of people packed in, eager to hear about the Arts of Spiritual Conversations. More than 200 people had turned out for the workshop, most of them pastors and leaders representing thirty-five churches in the Detroit area. Over the course of the previous week, sign-ups kept rolling in, and so many people came on the day of the workshop that they had to move the walls and...Read more …
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