church planting

Westside Christian Fellowship in Southern California arose from a desperate need to encourage Christians to seek God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. The overwhelming response simply reflects the need that we all have for the truths found in God's Word.

Propelled by prayer and passion, Westside went against all conventional wisdom by offering services on Saturday evenings for the first five years with no core team, no affiliation, no formal education, and no money. To many, this looked like an invitation for disaster, not success. But here is the first point:

The senior pastor of Tennessee's Brentwood Baptist Church is resigning from the Nashville megachurch to focus on church planting.

The church planting community is mourning the loss of church planter Clint Clifton of the North American Missionary Board, who died in a plane crash in Georgia last Thursday. He was 43.

According to the new Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) survey, church planting in the post-COVID era will be about “vision.”

The Association of Related Churches (ARC) is facing criticism for claiming that payments to ARC from its member churches are voluntary.