Church Planting

SNEBA Church Planting

The Southeastern New England Church Planting Network is dedicated to developing a functional church planting process for Southeastern New England and training a team to operate the program. Following the New Testament model, we will establish the process and program around five basic emphases. Prayer will be the foundational element that will direct, drive and sustain all the team seeks to accomplish. The Church Planting Team’s second emphasis will be the identification of locations for new church starts. It is of critical import to seek out focus areas in which the Father is at work for therein lays the blessings and power to initiate a church planting movement.

Multi-faceted partnerships and the resulting teamwork will also be critical to church planting in the area. The church planting network staff, the church planting teams and those God sends to unite with the movement must function in unison with a single goal in mind – to please the Father. Considerable time and effort will be dedicated to training and networking those involved to thrive toward a common goal. Much attention will also be granted to the necessity of preparing church planters and church planting missionaries to function within the realms of New Testament application in twenty first century New England. Finally, new churches and church planting centers will be transplanted throughout the area as the Father places the seed for the new works in the hearts of pastors and planters. Each will be a reproducible model with set goals as to when reproduction will occur.

OBJECTIVE: To establish a Church Planting Networks that will create a contextual church planting initiative in Southeastern New England capable of perpetually reproducing new, healthy and evangelistic churches, leaders and church planters.

PARTNERS: Local Churches and Pastors – Church Planting Teams – SNEBA Director of Missions – SNEBA Church Planting Team – Baptist Convention of New England – The North American Mission Board – On Mission Associations and churches

PROJECTED TIME LINE:

Phase One: Affirm SNEBA initiative to plant churches

Phase Two: Place SNEBA Church Planting Missionary – part time

Phase Three:

– Began Creating Church Planting environment in SNEBA

– CP Training Events for local churches

– Develop CP Strategy for SNEBA

– Develop CP Process for SNEBA

– Develop CP Policy & Guidelines for SNEBA

– Set CP Budget

– Begin Training & Recruiting Planters for area

– Initiate pilot projects

Phase Four:

– Launch SNEBA CP Program

– Basic Training for local Plant Teams

- Start 2-5 new churches

- Train mentors and coaches

- Develop Multiplying Church Networks

- Develop evaluation system for SBEBA CP

- Set Next phase of goals