Endorsements

If you have a vision for church multiplication, Praxis is for you. This team of practitioners can help you implement the systems and strategies necessary to make your vision a reality. Many times people have the tools but don't know how to use them. What Praxis can do is come alongside with coaching and training and empower people to use those tools.

Having formed a strategic alliance with CoachNet International Ministries, Praxis is uniquely positioned to implement church multiplication movements. That working connection, plus my close relationship with Praxis team members personally, gives me confidence to recommend them with great enthusiasm. They are true colleagues and partners in ministry-- proven leaders. Praxis team members have extensive experience working with the resources we've developed for church multiplication, not just in theory but in practice. If you're tired of saying, "We should… we ought to…" Praxis is for you. They can help you get you where you want to go.

- Dr. Bob Logan

Executive Director, CoachNet International Ministries

Wow, I'm excited about Praxis. This is just the kind of thing we need for three kinds of people: 1. Potential church planters and their teams. 2. New church planters and their key leaders. 3. Churches with a willingness and sacrificial spirit that are willing to sponsor church planters.

Tom Johnston is a close personal friend of mine and currently pastors a church that is a fourth generation plant from one that I pastored. He is highly experienced as a coach, having worked with Robert Logan for several years. This man seems to have the key to church planting in New England which is supposed to be the toughest place in America to plant a church. I am proud to be in association with these people.

- Ralph Moore

Author: Starting A New Church, by Regal Books

Tom Johnston is well known in the Foursquare Brazilian Community. He is a great communicator that has proven his skills teaching the Brazilian Foursquare Church leaders with exceptional results.

Through his teaching, new leaders have been raised up and new church planters "awaked". Tom has made a great contribution for the growth of the Portuguese speaking churches in New England. He is a man that has a heart to develop leaders to plant healthy churches.

- Rev. Cairo Marques

Supervisor, New England Foursquare Church - Portuguese Speaking District

I have been actively involved in church planting in New England for 15 years as a pastoral leader, church planter, and now as a lay leader. I have known the joy of seeing new churches successfully launched and growing. I have also known the heartbreak of seeing visions die and people crushed by the failure of a mission. I am convinced that The Praxis Center for Church Development has the tools, the talent, and the vision to help the successful leaders more effectively bring health and growth to their people, and the struggling leaders to find the tools necessary to accomplish what God has called them to do.

- David M. Wheat

Chartered Financial Consultant and a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Praxis Center of Church Development

Church planters in greater Boston are fortunate to have available the expertise and guidance available to them through the services of the Praxis Center for Church Development. Church planting in greater Boston can be even more successful as it takes advantage of what Tom and those associated with Praxis have to offer.

- Rev. Ralph A. Kee

Greater Boston Church Planting Collaborative and a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Praxis Center of Church Development

It is with joy that I recommend the ministry of The Praxis Center for Church Development and Tom Johnston. Tom has planted churches in New England. He has also parented churches (who have made him a grand-parent), coached church planters, coached sponsor pastors and coached churches pursuing church health. His wide experience and excellent results all testify to a source of help that we in New England are wise to use for Kingdom advantage.

- Rev. Dr. Kim L. Richardson
Pastor, Coach, Sponsor Pastor, District Coordinator - N.E. Nazarene Former Coordinator of Church Planting for Vision New England

Tom Johnston has a profound understanding of what it takes to plant new churches, the communication skills to share that information clearly and the ability to motivate and energize both church planters and their supporters. The Alliance for Renewal Churches is indebted to him and looks forward to an ongoing relationship.

- Ray Nethery
Director of Pastoral Care, The Alliance for Renewal Churches