10 Ways Your Church Can Be Involved in Church Planting Here in Arkansas

1- Pray – Join the Church Planting Prayer Network and pray weekly for church planting in Arkansas. Adopt a church plant and become a part of their prayer team, praying regularly for them and their needs. (to join – send an email to pray4churchplanting@absc.org)


2- Adopt a church planter and his family in your area. Be a friend to them. Take them to lunch or meet them for breakfast on a regular basis. Send them to a conference or retreat. Provide childcare so they can go out on a date with their wife.


3- Support the new work financially. Provide monthly support for the ongoing expenses. Put them in your church budget and/or take up special offerings to help meet their needs.


4- Provide materials and equipment. Do a “Baby Shower” for the new church, getting SS classes to supply various equipment or materials. (for a copy of the AR church planters wish list – email pray4churchplanting@absc.org)


5- Share your facilities. This might be for services on an ongoing basis, or for special events or meetings.


6- Send a volunteer team to assist a new church start. Help with a VBS or a community outreach. Prayerwalk or help canvas a neighborhood with flyers or invitations. Help with remodeling or work on a building, etc. (for a list of volunteer projects – email pray4churchplanting@absc.org)


7- Discover unreached or under-reached people in your own community. Who in your community is not being reached by your church or others? Do demographic research, a windshield survey, and questionnaires in your area. Determine if a new church start might be needed to reach the unchurched.


8- Start an outreach Bible study. Do an outreach event and begin a new Bible study, outside of your church walls, and assist the new believers into becoming a new church.


9- Encourage members in your church to pray, give and maybe even go and be a part of a new work (for a pre-determined time or indefinitely).


10- Become a mentor to a new church leader. Pastors can mentor new church pastors, youth ministers can mentor youth workers, teachers and lay leaders can mentor new church leaders.

Adapted from NAMB’s “10 Ways Your Church Can Become a Kingdom Builder”