in Christ: Andrew Fountain's blog

Adrian Warnock has been interviewing a lot of people recently (including John Lanferman, Rob Rufus, Tom Shaw and Terry Virgo and I thought it would be fun to “turn the tables” and interview Adrian and his wife Andrée. Here are the questions I asked them (in approximately the order I asked them).

• Tell me about your family
• What does Andrée think of your blogging?
• How involved are you in a local church?
• Are you full time as a blogger—you certainly seem to be by your prolific output
  • How do you find time?
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One of the greatest blessings of the recent Newfrontiers Canada leadership conference was getting a chance to meet John Lanferman, the leader of Newfrontiers USA. I was particularly interested to talk with him about church planting, since he has planted 28 churches already in his lifetime and plans on planting a Newfrontiers church in each of the 100 largest cities of the USA. I was not the only one—gathered around him at his lunch table were Joe Crummey (The Meeting Place, Frederickton), Ian Jukes (Harbor Christian Church, New Hampshire), Dave Adkins (King's Family, Oakville), and myself from Newlife Church, Toronto.

John began by telling us that before a church plant "goes public", there are five areas that need to be covered: