As the multiplying healthy churches team leader, I work with churches to help facilitate the starting of healthy multiplying church plants and replants.
One of the key things that I do for churches and associations is identify areas/people groups that are underserved and under-reached with the gospel. This information is gathered through community analysis, demographic research and what I like to call “boots on the ground” investigation. This last approach is particularly critical.
Church planters must immerse themselves in the community, listening deeply to understand its unique needs and culture. Once these areas are identified, they are shared with our churches where they can begin to pray and see the need of our state for new churches.
My job entails working closely with churches interested in church planting through an integrated approach of active recruitment, partnership development, and church planting coalition building. [Read more…]


