Initiatives

1) Initiate district-wide prayer team
We recognize prayer as the foundational discipline of any ministry that seeks God’s direction and empowering.  We endeavor to pray as individual team members and corporately in our team meetings.  We also want to encourage prayer for church multiplication within our district churches.  We pray for wisdom in direction, evangelists and church planters, new churches, future churches, and most importantly, for many people to be saved as a result of our efforts.

2) Recruit Church-planting interns/pastors
IIn order to plant new churches, the most critical resource is a gifted evangelist/church planter.  Gifted evangelists have a passion for evangelism and a track record for leading people to Christ.  We hope to recruit these evangelists from our own district church pews, district church pastoral teams, within our national fellowship, and outside our national fellowship.  We are always looking for contacts and referrals and sources for potential church planters.

3) Fundraising
Planting new churches costs money.  We will need financial resources for church-planting internships, church-planter salaries, new church start-up expenses, recruiting, promotion, and a staff salary.  Our desire is to be included in our district church budgets, and to have direct participation from individuals within our district churches.  We want to establish a consistent cash-flow by promoting monthly giving, either through the local GBC’s, or directly to Tri-State Church Multiplication.  This can be done through mail-in donations and convenient ACH transactions directly from individual bank accounts.  

4) Training and Coaching
New church-planting evangelists will be offered internships where they can be trained with any materials necessary to help them be successful when they launch out and begin to evangelize a locality.  This could include training in evangelism, core-group strategy, church formation, etc.   Once a church planter is in the field, we will come alongside with coaching to ensure a supportive team approach, and to aide in the direction and continuity of vision and goals.

5) Resourcing and Encouraging
When a church planter is in the field beginning the tasks of evangelism and church formation, we desire to come alongside with encouragement and needed resources.

2007 Goals

1) Encourage and resource our current church plants
The Happy Church - Mike & Connie Tabor, Jackson, KY
Cornerstone GBC - Tim & Jayne Nixon, Springboro, OH
Daystar GBC - Brian & Janie Reifsnider (Interim), Union City, IN
Mason Family of Grace - Ned & Kathy Denlinger, Mason, OH

2) Raise funds to support Director of Church Multiplication
We hired Daniel Pierce in May of 2006 to serve as our staff recruiter and coach. We need to raise $25,000 per year to support Pastor Daniel in this role.

3) Recruit a church-planting intern
Our goal this year is to continue to pray and recruit God’s man for our next new church.  This new intern or couple would ideally serve out an internship in the Greenville Grace Church, and be prepared for a 2007 church plant.

4) Promote Church Multiplication within our district churches
We want the churches in the Tri-State Fellowship to be our partners in this church multiplication movement.  We would love to come share our vision on a Sunday morning, and establish a local church representative for us to communicate through.