Church Planting Vision Checkup

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Church Planting Vision Check-up

• Wednesday, July 28, 2004
• 1000am
• Dr. Richard H. Harris

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20/20 Vision for the 21st Century

• Vision
• Believing anything healthy reproduces, the Church
  Planting Group will work with partners in
  implementing the Church Planting Process to plant
  healthy, reproducing churches with evangelistic
  passion as part of a New Testament church
  planting movement among all people groups in the
  United States, U.S. territories, and Canada.
• Since 1997
• Total Plants
• 11,001 (7 yrs)
• Average per year 1571
• Minus 1,397 new affiliates
• Total plants9,603 (7 yrs).
• Average per year 1372

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20/20 Vision for the 21st Century contd

• In American Each Day
• 8 churches close doors1
• 6 churches started
• 4 started by SBC
• 2 African-American/Ethnic
• In 2002 (ACP)
• Church plant baptism 2,826
• 3.1 per congregation vs. 8.1 per established
  church
• Average baptisms per 100 residents members
• New Plants 11.7
• Established churches 3.4
• Cooperative Program Giving per member
• New Plants 39.31
• Established churches 43.48
• 1 Lost in America Tom Clegg, Warren Bird

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Church Planting Process

• The fulfillment of the mission and vision of the
  Church Planting Group will be accomplished
  through the Church Planting Process, which has
  four key elements

• Strategic Readiness Creating and sustaining a
  climate for church planting, while leading in
  strategy design for implementing the Church
  Planting Process.
• Recruitment Recruiting church planters and
  sponsoring/partnering churches.
• Mentoring Leading in the assessment,
  training/equipping planters and
  sponsoring/partnering churches.
• Implementation Facilitating the implementation
  of strategies for planting churches among
  identified people groups and in specific
  places/environments.

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Strategy Design

• Track One Traditional, Institutional
• Track Two Non-traditional, non-institutional
  (lay, Multihousing, house, Bivocational)

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NAMB Continental Strategy Six Major Ministry
Objectives

• Equip for Evangelism
• Work in cooperation with state conventions and
  associations to assist churches to reach and
  baptize new believers.
• Assist in Church Planting
• Work in cooperation with state conventions and
  associations to assist Southern Baptist churches
  to plant healthy, multiplying churches in North
  America.
• Mobilize Christians
• Provide resources and opportunities that are
  contextualized to assist all churches to involve
  their members in North American missions.

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Six Major Ministry Objectives contd.

• Deploy Missionaries
• Affirm the high calling of missionaries and
  chaplains and mobilize them to reach all people
  groups in North America.
• Penetrate the Cultures
• Encourage and facilitate a movement of On Mission
  Christians and next generation leaders who
  faithfully take the gospel into the
  marketplaces of North America through media
  saturation, professional influence, and
  involvement in Acts 18 activity.
• Develop Leaders, Strategies and Resources
• To develop innovative leaders, strategies, and
  resources that facilitate and support the
  accomplishment of NAMBs Continental Strategy.

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People Groups/Rapid Church Multiplication (RCM)

• Large numbers of unreached and under-reached
  people groups and population segments are not
  being evangelized through church planting. One
  reason is because their presence and their
  lostness is hidden too many of our churches.
  Another reason they are not being reached stems
  from the use of non-missiological church planting
  methods that are most effective for starting
  contextual, multiplying churches among people
  groups and population segments with different
  cultures and worldviews.
• Some statistics about SBC churches to population
  ratios

• The combined population of Canada and the U.S. is
  323.5 million people (Canada 31.1 million U.S.
  and territories 292.4 million).SBC membership
  of approximately 16 million people is 5 of the
  population
• Factor in the non-resident member numbers and the
  percentage goes down considerably

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SBC CHURCHES TO POPULATION

• Current Hispanic Peoples population in North
  America approximately 38 million
• Current Hispanic SBC churches (2002 ACP) almost
  3000
• Current Hispanic SBC churches (2002 ACP) approx.
  130,000
• This amounts to less than 1 of the 38 million
  Hispanics
• Current Native American Peoples population 4.7
  million
• SBC churches 419
• SBC members 31,000
• This amounts to less than 1 of the 4.7 million
  Native Americans
• Current Muslim Peoples population approximately
  4-5 million
• SBC churches less than 50
• SBC members unknown to me
• This amounts to less than 1 of the 4-5 Muslims

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SBC Churches to Population contd.

• Current African-American population 34.7 million
• SBC churches 2,752
• SBC members 530,000
• This amount to less than 2 of the 34.7 million
• Current White population 217 million
• SBC churches 40,178
• SBC members 15 million
• This amounts to less than 8 of the 217 million
• Current Filipino population 1.9 million
• SBC churches 176
• SBC members 8,000
• This amounts to less than 1 of the 1.9 million

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SBC Churches to Population contd.

• Current Korean population 1 million
• SBC churches 761
• SBC members 51,000
• This amounts to less than 5 of the 1 million
• Current Chinese population 2.3 million
• SBC churches 185
• SBC members 16,000
• This amounts to less than 1 of the 2.3 million
• Current Vietnamese population 1.1 million
• SBC churches 122
• SBC members 30,000
• This amounts to nearly 3 of the 1.1 million

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• Identification Solutions Probe 2
• People Group Database
• Culture Catalogs

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Church Planting Institute

• The Church Planting Institute is intended to
  facilitate better missional thought in our
  agency, partnerships, planters, and denomination
  through research, writing, and conferences.
• The Church Planting Institute provides a means
  for the Church Planting Group to better inform
  the SBC, our partners, and the broader
  evangelical community in biblical missiology
  through research, writing, and conferencing.

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Church Planting Institute contd.

• The Church Planting Institute will publish a book
  each year that engages, informs, and promotes
  North American ministry with a missional focus.
  The Church Planting Institute will plan
  conferences focused on emerging leaders that
  promote missional thought leading to church
  multiplication. The unit will help our
  interested partners to consider deeper missiology
  through research, dialogue groups, and formal
  training.