Church Planting

Christians are to be consumed with making disciples. There is nothing more important in Jesus’ eyes for a church to do than to make disciples. It’s Job Number One! So, what’s the connection between making disciples and new church planting?

It’s quite simple: new churches are the most effective at reaching the lost and developing them into fully devoted followers. If we have a passion for making disciples then it would be logical for us to have a passion for planting new churches since they are so effective at making disciples.

The ideal way to plant new churches is to employ an “Extended Family Model”. That is, a group of churches work together to plant a church. Two churches can act as the “mother and father” of the new church by taking the lead in providing funding and personnel for the project. Sister and brother churches pitch in as well. They offer funding and people resources, too, but in a smaller proportion. Aunt and uncle churches join in with the project as well.

Pastors who are connected together through the LLCs will eventually develop a plan to lead their churches to sponsor a new church plant in their area. This is a significant portion of the “dreaming” aspect of each LLC meeting. Until these plans mature the Region is initiating new church planting in various parts of the Northwest as we locate church planters, and as we raise funds for the work.

Newest Churches:

Name	Town	Pastor
Yellowstone Church	Billings, MT	Mike Iverson
Communidad Christiana El Camino	Richland, WA	Guadelupe Vasquez
La Verdad	Yakima, WA	Manuel Luquin
Blessed Life Church	Bellevue, WA
Everett Community Church	Everett, WA	Peter Gatata
Living Hope Baptist Church	Kittitas, WA	Herb Alvord
Arlington Community Church	Arlington, WA	Gale O'Neal
Communidad de Esperanza	Bremerton, WA	Oscar Vega
Tabernaculo Biblica Bautista de Utah	Ogden, UT	Mario Majano
The River Christian Church	Eagle, ID	Dave Griewe