Avant Ministries - Mark & Denise Bruner - US and the World. (Denise is the daughter of HCC's Doug & Janet Avery). Avant Ministries is committed to being a leader in what they call "Short-Cycle Church Planting". They define this new concept as "the strategic, God-enabled process which seeks to continuously shorten the time needed to develop a mature church." With the increasing volatility in the world, we can no longer assume a long-haul approach to church planting. The doors to countries, especially in unreached areas, open and close quickly. By being culturally advanced in our thinking and developing new and experimental concepts in Short-Cycle Church Planting, Avant Ministries is boldly presenting Christ as the solution for this fast-changing, but lost world.