Last year proved to be a real disappointment in the number of actual new works being started. However, we praise God for 13 works total that we were able to count. There may have been some we didn't know about.
At the missionary share time we challenged everyone to rise up to double the amount of new works started nationally, that would be 26! It would be wonderful if we could do this. It will take a lot more than a simple challenge to do this though.
There needs to be a number of things put into place that would enable any increase in church planting to occur:
1. Everyone would need to understand the new terminologies associated with current church planting methods.
2. There would need to be new ministries formed with an eye for church planting and development (our association is incapable of this process in its present structure).
3. There is a need for a "church planting fellowship" of churches to be formed within our association for the sole purpose of planting new churches in the USA and Canada.
We can make the changes necessary for success in church planting. However, the desire for change is not well enough established in order for us to see those changes occur in the future.
David
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Bro. Smith how many of the 13 are missions, how many are actually organizations and how many are from splits?
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