Church planting presentation
Background: My heart
Church planting
City
Team
Southern California
great place for those priorities
many gospel preaching churches in SoCal
but also 20 million souls
churches need to be reproducing, starting other church
But how?
Make it part of your thinking from the beginning
Pray
Keep your ministry streamlined enough to make it possible
God has to provide the leadership: a pastor
a Southern Californian would be best!
Come be part of GBC Menifee
not them planting, us watching
but us planting together with them
God did!
Southern California, well prepared, shares our vision, philosophy
could be a lot of other places, paid full time
willing to come spend a couple years making teeth to be part of this vision
What's next?
Target date is fall of 2010
Seek the Lord and study possible locations (Corona, the pass)
Prepare GBC Menifee
Practice (Sneedens, etc.)
Save (church planting fund - designations)
Pray for God to build a team (from GBC, in target area)
prepare pastor Eric
From the beginning this has been on our heart
be a reproducing church
not a church that just seeks security and size and prestige
but multiplies into new communities
It's hard but it's healthy!
an ingrown church gradually becomes a useless church
not just about the next church; it's about this church
pushes us to mature, develop leadership, delegate, give
keeps our evangelistic fire and mission-minded focus
Dream
work together with church #2 to plant church #3
develop specialized ministries, working together