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Jumpstart: Online Version

Jumpstart Online

Catch the vision for church planting during this 30 minute overview of our mission, strategies, environments and vision for kingdom multiplication. Jumpstart is the starting point for church planters and network leaders.

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Aaron, Skip & Alla

Aaron planted a church in Middlesex, VA. The main outreach of the church is a Skateboard ministry that reaches around 50 community kids and families. People are coming to faith, and the church (called Pure Life Church) has grown to around 30 people on Sunday mornings. 

One day, a family from the community came unexpectedly to a DBS that Aaron and Bonnie were hosting in their home. Skip, his wife Alla, and their two children began to open up about how they had not been to church in decades. However, the Lord began stirring in Skip’s heart, and since their kids went to the Skate Club ministry, they decided to come to a DBS. The Lord met with Skip and Alla in a powerful way.

That very week, Skip reconciled with his father (they hadn’t spoken in many years). And when they heard the call to church planting, Skip and Alla tearfully said “yes” to Jesus. Alla began to share how she grew up in Soviet-controlled Ukraine, where Christianity was illegal. However, as a little girl, she experienced the underground church as her uncle and other relatives would meet in homes to worship Jesus, pray, and hear the scriptures. Alla did not understand what was happening when she was a child, especially because her school was so hostile to Christianity.

Now, as an adult in USA, she is joyfully walking with the Lord, and is excited to answer the call for her family to plant churches in Middlesex. Skip and Alla have started the new church plant by launching a DBS in their home with close friends and family.

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2021 Sent Summit

The Sent Summit is an annual gathering to refresh and refuel church planters on the front lines of the movement. The summit is open to all and serves as a catalyst to invite workers to join Jesus in His harvest field.

The dates and location of the 2021 Sent Summit will be posted soon (as we navigate creative options in light of covid-19).

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5 Strategies

Jesus’ instruction to his workers is clear: we are to go into all the world, make disciples, and teach them to obey everything that Jesus commanded. If the church is to have any strategy at all, it is to have strategies that produce obedient disciples of Christ. The purpose of our work is not to just plant churches, but to plant churches that produce obedient disciples.

What we teach is a simple, yet biblical, method of planting churches that will produce obedient disciples. The teaching is centered around five strategies:

  • Pray
  • Speak Out
  • Gather
  • Obey
  • Send Out

These five strategies are found in scripture in stand-alone commands and many parables. The five strategies serve as our dashboard for producing obedient disciples.

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