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Our Vision

Our goal is to build up the church base in America.  We are going to start with the remote areas of the west and northeast. We are going to train church planters, trainers and organize mobile church planting teams to dispatch where we want to plant churches. Once we plant a church we will move on to plant another one.  This is where we are now:

    There are three major problems with planting churches in America.

    • 1. False religion has saturated the areas we have not reached.
    • 2. It takes 5-8 years to establish a church in America
    • 3. Only 20% of the churches planted succeed, the rest close their doors.

                                   We can and must turn this around!

      •                                    OUR PLAN:

Phase I

We are going as church planters, not as church pastors.  We are raising money not only for our support, but also funds to build churches, provide housing and food for support teams and contractors, and to publish literature for church planting and correspondence Bible courses. I have experience church planting among clannish people as Field Director for Truth For Today Baptist Missions, and planting churches in metropolitan areas planting a church in Michigan. There are about a dozen home missions conferences around the country that focus on domestic missions, and there are young men who are raising support in these conferences to pioneer a work in a remote area of the country.  We meet men in churches also seeking God’s will for the ministry.  Right now 80% of our churches are in the South. Phase I is a three-year commitment to help one of these men and try to turn the statistics above around. These statistics have been validated from several sources, what we are doing now then in domestic missions is largely ineffective.

 1.  We can mentor them, help them avoid some of the pitfalls of church planting.

 2.  We can labor along with them, help them duplicate their efforts (even bring in support teams)
     and provide fundamental printed material.

 3.  We can build churches for them. We have contractors who will volunteer their time and I have a
     background in carpentry as well. We also have ministries committed to providing pews, hymnals, etc.
     standing by as well.

 4.  I also have a background in ministerial tax law.  We can help church planters with legal and tax
     Issues related to establishing a church.

We are taking the same approach that has been so successful on foreign fields. We are going to establish churches, build buildings, plant a national pastor there, and when the churches are indigenous, leave to go start one somewhere else.  Above all, we can cut some time off that 5-8 year incubation period and greatly decrease the 80% failure rate.

Phase II

The next phase is to go to a neighboring community and start another church, if possible the same way. If we are not able to do this we will go to the next farthest area or help a church that is struggling.  We want to leave two churches in each target state where possible and teach them to be church planters.

 1.  The two churches can support and encourage one another. We are talking about areas where the
     nearest church of like faith may be 200 miles or more away.  Wives need encouragement too, another
     church in the area can make their life easier.

 2.  We will train them to be church planters as well. Churches planting churches is God’s plan for the
     Church to reproduce Scripturally.

Phase III

We will continue to support these churches, now autonomous indigenous works as needed; much like the Apostle Paul did when he revisited the churches in his network of churches to encourage and instruct them. Between church plants we can help small, struggling churches and perhaps keep them from closing the doors. These are the churches that would fall in the 80% ratio that can be salvaged with some help. We can also encourage the churches we’ve planted by holding soul-winning revivals, distributing literature, and knocking on doors, etc.

Our Objectives

· Start two or more churches in each target state

· Help small and struggling churches and try to keep them from closing

· Encourage churches to plant churches

· Recruit church planters

     We will recruit some Timothy’s and Titus’ and eventually some Paul’s and Silas’.  If you stop and think about it, Barnabas didn’t go out to start churches by himself, neither did Paul. When he and Barnabas had a falling out he took Silas and departed.  There was always a church planting team or partnership that was sent out from the church. Then they had young men traveling with them that they left to pastor the churches. Some have estimated there were twenty or more church planters with Paul when he established the churches in Asia Minor. The way we are approaching this makes sense, it’s Biblical, and the fruit of 27 years in the ministry. I don’t just think it will work, I know it will work!.

objectives

Eventually we hope to make church planting contagious in our churches. We made the Bible Belt, but we cannot afford to shelter ourselves in it, lest God send great persecution to us as He did to the church in Jerusalem. Soon we will stop sending missionaries over seas, like Great Britain did, because there won’t be enough of a church base in America to send them. We will lose control of our growing population. We are now the third largest mission field in the world.  We will become an insignificant minority if we don’t do something.  The choice is ours.

Our vision is to restore this country to righteousness by doing what Baptist’s did when they first came to America, planting churches all over our land and recruiting others to join us in this effort.  We want to plant churches in remote areas of America, to help pastors plant churches, and to assist small and struggling churches in America to keep their doors open.

The Apostle Paul had the same vision and he helped young men establish churches throughout his own nation of Asia Minor. The Bible says they turned the world upside down.  Would to God the historians would write about us that “Christianity had all but died in America, then the Independent Baptists started planting churches and they turned that country upside down for Jesus Christ.” 

Most other major religions and cults are aggressively planting churches in America.  In Phoenix, Arizona there are approximately 4 million people and approximately 922 Mormon churches, there are less than 10 Baptist churches.  Most towns west of the Mississippi have no Baptist church.  If you live in the Midwest or in the Bible Belt there are probably more churches in your country that in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota combined!

What would you do if there was no gospel witness in your town, no church to go to and none for hours or hundreds of miles? Will you help us make this vision a reality? Where there is no vision the people perish.  Our vision is to restore this country to righteousness by doing what Baptist’s did when they first came to America, planting churches all over our land and recruiting others to join us in this effort.  We want to plant churches in remote areas of America, to help pastors plant churches, and to assist small and struggling churches in America to keep their doors open.