It is easy to assume that North Americans are over churched.
But, in reality, North America is a mission field so populous
that it cannot be reached for Christ without starting large
numbers of new churches. God is beginning a movement of church
planting in North America--will you join Him? Invest in
eternity.
Join Others in the Great
Commission
"Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations, baptizing them...., teaching
them..."
- The estimated non-Christian
population of the United States is 200 million.
- Six million French Canadians
make up the largest unreached people group in North America
(1 in 200 is Christian).
- North America is the only
continent where Christianity is not growing. You can help!
"Church planting is much
more caught that taught....If God is leading you to plant a
church, do it. That's what I did..."
- John Mark Clifton
Kansas City, Missouri
"Everything that we have
given...God has always replace many times over. Church planting
is God's way of extending His church and His kingdom...all
across our land."
- Frank Cornelius
Deer Trail, Colorado
"My intention as pastor
was to help our church see that we could have a better impact
and a greater impact on our community and our city if we would
be involved in planting churches. If we could do that, we would
reach more people for Christ.
I want us to be a church that's
just like the church in the book of Acts that goes and is
obedient to preaching the Word of God and starting churches. And
it doesn't matter how big the church is. If a church makes a
decision to plant a church, it will light a fire under your
people. They will become excited because they are seeing God do
something - not only in their local congregation - but outside
the walls of that church. And that's where God told us to be on
mission - outside the walls of our church.
You don't have to be a large
church plant a church. You just have to have a desire and a
passion to reach lost people for Christ. And if you have that
desire, you'll find a way to do it."
- Pete Dominguez
Wichita, Kansas
"The greatest joy in
starting a church is being part of something only God can
do!"
- Cliff Ramsey
Blue Springs, Missouri
"Church planting is for
lay believers, not just the seminary-trained and ordained few.
Each believer is a vital part of a church planting movement, if
he or she believes right and then behaves right.
We must expect God to work
around us, showing us where a Bible study could begin - and
begin through us. Once we see hearts hungering for God, we must
then obey God, and begin the process of starting a church. This
is not complicated - it is obedience."
- Henry Blackaby
Rex, Georgia
"We never considered it
losing a member in order to start another church. I'll never
forget the Sunday we lost, or sent, 85 of our families. The very
next week we had the largest attendance in Bible study we have
ever had in the history of our church. It's God's way of saying,
'You can't out give Me.' We gave to that fellowship 85 tithing
families. And yet God had a way of supplying, and our giving has
never been better than it is now. It has never been a loss to
our fellowship.
We can invest in something that
will outlast us. We can watch churches grow like we watch our
children grow. I really need to challenge my pastor friends to
step out into deeper water and trust God in multiplying their
ministry by starting new work and see the blessing that returns
to their own local church family."
- Johnny Hunt
Woodstock, Georgia
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