by Jason Todd
A question I get asked a lot as I travel around for the National Church Planting Office is, “When and where is the next Church Planter’s School and what is it?”
The NCPO has held church planting schools every year since its inception in 2005. Even though a lot of the material that is presented has stayed the same, each school is different. Each school is held in a different region of the country and is usually hosted by one of our BBFI churches. We also usually have a wide variety of church planters that attend the school. Some of them come to be approved as a BBFI church planter, while others come for just the training. It has been our pleasure to see God grow and use these great men of God over the last seven years.
I am excited about our next Church Planter’s School that will be held in conjunction with the Texas State Fellowship Meeting at the Holiday Inn Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX. The school will start Monday afternoon January 21 and end Friday afternoon January 25. We will have our usual lineup of presenters, including John Arnold of Library Baptist Church in Finleyville, PA, Duke Hergatt of Temple Baptist Church in Waterford, NY, Dan Lamb of Bible Baptist Church in Hillsboro, OH, Mark Milioni, president of Baptist Bible College, and Keith Bassham, editor of the Baptist Bible Tribune. We will also have Kelly McInerney of Bible Baptist Church in Wilmington, OH, presenting along with some of the local church planters and pastors.
We will be covering a lot of different subjects that pertain to church planting including, but not limited to, prayer, personal life, finances, start-up/launch, church plant ministry, marketing/branding, and the history and philosophy of the Baptist Bible Fellowship. If you are interested in church planting or maybe know someone who is interested in church planting, let me encourage you to consider attending this Church Planter’s School. We also encourage those who attend to bring their wives with them, as we will have childcare available, if needed. You can get more information about this upcoming school by calling the NCPO at (417) 536-8826 or email at office@bbfincpo.com. You can also download a church planter’s application for approval at www.bbfincpo.com.
I also want to encourage pastors to consider joining a few other churches who have already offered to financially sponsor a church planter who is coming to the school, or maybe you would consider sending one or two of your staff members.
The best way to find out what is going on at the NCPO Church Planter’s School is to come see for yourself. It will be worth your time and money! The last thing I ask is for you to pray for our school. Ask that God would continue to send us those that He has called to plant churches in the U.S.