Mars Hill Church recently marked the conclusion of our 2009 fiscal year. How does the Acts 29 Network summarize a year like this one? Grace.
The numbers below are encouraging. The numbers are not our joy, however, they are residual evidence of it. Our joy is in seeing Jesus call the lost to himself, inspire men [...]

Mars Hill Church aspires to be a church that continues to be known for starting more churches (not just campuses).

The main purpose of a multiplying church is twofold:

To plant the gospel so that new churches exist where none existed before.
To bring missional renewal to existing churches.

The New Testament tells the story of the [...]

A 2007 article in Outreach Magazine (PDF) identified Mars Hill as the second most prolific multiplying church in America. This article motivated me to increase church planting in and through Mars Hill Church—to live up to our reputation, as it were.

The Pastors Training Program
We have worked hard to steward the resources of Mars Hill Church [...]

“Driscoll is nuts!” said one church member as he walked out of the third service of the day at Mars Hill Church in Ballard. I knew what he was referencing. I said, “It is so crazy that it is brilliant.” He looked at me like I was just as delusional. He tossed his bulletin in [...]

While I was in London and Brighton, England, this past summer with Pastor Mark, the Spirit impressed on me with the phrase, “For a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries” (1 Corinthians 16:9).
I had not read that passage for eighteen months, and yet the Apostle Paul’s statement [...]

In addition to starting new campuses, Mars Hill Church is busy starting new churches through the work of the Acts 29 Network.
The Acts 29 Network is a ministry supported by Mars Hill Church that helps start churches around the world by providing theological, relational, missional, and pastoral support. For many church planters, Acts 29 provides [...]

Our friends at Crossway have outdone themselves with the forthcoming ESV Study Bible. I’ve seen a copy of it (so has Pastor Mark), and it’s like the iPhone of Bibles. I’ve already ordered a bunch to give to our pastors in training, and I’m excited for the October 15 publication date.
From now until July 31, [...]

The inaugural Dwell Conference in New York City this past April was a sold-out urban church-planting conference attended by men from 12 different countries (the content is available here).

The largest contingency was from the UK, so I am heading to London in July for a one-day conference with Mark Driscoll and Steve Timmis, founder of [...]

(By Pastor Scott Thomas, with Pastor Mike Gunn)
“If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world mission.” –John Piper
Ten percent of Mars Hill Church’s general budget goes to fund the Acts 29 church-planting network. Acts 29 has helped plant more than one hundred twenty [...]

Fasting joined with fervent prayer and reading of scripture is a spiritual discipline of humbling ourselves in abstinence before God to hunger for him, to give him glory, to seek his direction, to turn away some tragedy, and/or to obtain some blessing. Fasting is traditionally the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, [...]