Home
About
What's Happening
Training
Residency/Intern
Coaching
Partner
Welcome
Home
About
What's Happening
Training
Residency/Intern
Coaching
Partner
Welcome
Training and resourcing leaders to plant churches that plant churches
a1:8movement is a ministry training and resourcing leaders who are planting churches that plant churches in the U.S., Western Europe, and Mozambique, Africa. Our storyIn 1991, Crossroads Church began with the vision of reaching the unreached people of Pittsburgh’s western suburbs. As the church grew, so did the vision’s scope. In 1998, Crossroads released its first full-time staff person to plant a church in Pittsburgh’s northern suburbs. Since then, Crossroads has started four other campuses and trained and coached church planters in the U.S. and Europe. In 2016, a1:8movement was formed as a non-profit organization to catalyze the multiplication of churches in the U.S. and Western Europe. Our goal is to help plant 100 churches that will plant other churches. We will do this through providing training, resources, coaching and mentoring to church planting teams. We are part of the movement Jesus began when he commissioned his followers:"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judeaand Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
</iframe>" data-provider-name="YouTube">United StatesLeo Vollbracht, a pastor at Crossroads for several years, is responding to God's call to plant a church on the east coast of Florida beginning in 2017.Western Europe</iframe>" data-provider-name="YouTube">A team from Crossroads was in France in July 2017 to work alongside a church planter in sharing the Gospel and strengthening the new church.Crossroads partners with 2 church planters in France who are reflecting the light of Jesus in a very post-Christian society.Mozambique, Africa</iframe>" data-provider-name="YouTube">Two teams from Crossroads were in Mozambique in 2017 to work with our partner churches and networks. The first team brought training materials that our partners requested in Disciple Making Movements, Muslim evangelism, and Church Planting Essentials by Dynamic Church Planting Internationals. 37 students representing 23 churches graduated from CPE and have committed to plant an additional 6 new churches in 2017, including one among an unreached people group in northern Mozambique.</iframe>" data-provider-name="YouTube">Our partner networks and churches have already planted 18 new churches in Mozambique!
Church Planter Training
Our training is designed and led by practitioners, including Crossroads’ founding pastor Steve Cordle.In Acts 1:8 Jesus said we would be his witnesses after we receive power from the Holy Spirit. So training features focuses on both strategy and power evangelism. It is designed to equip planters for both contemporary church and for alternative forms which reach those who are unresponsive to mo