Church Planting

GLENDIVE, Mont. – When a pastor is called to a new place of ministry, he takes his family with him. That might not affect the toddlers in the family, but what about teenagers? What about the pastor’s wife?

GLENDIVE, Montana – This time, the emphasis on starting a church in Glendive is on raising up locals from the community.

BRUNSWICK, Ohio – Buck Wilford grew up in an Assembly of God church and accepted Christ at age 14. Soon, he sensed a call to ministry. But it would be almost 25 years before he pastored a church, and he would travel the world in the meantime. He would say it was all part of God’s plan.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — The changing religious landscape in the United States includes a decline in the total number of Protestant and Southern Baptist churches.

DALLAS – TJ Stoudt, pastor of Harlem Community Church in New York, first felt God’s call on his life to serve in “large, diverse cities” when he served on staff at Waterfront Church in Washington, D.C., a church plant out of Southcrest Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – To reach North America with the Gospel, churches need to raise up and send missionaries into cities, towns and communities who will engage their neighbors with the Gospel, make disciples and start new churches. In 2025, dozens of Send Network One Day events sought to foster a movement of churches to zero in on that task.

Southern Baptists are at our best when we send – when local churches lock arms to plant evangelistic, Bible-anchored congregations and make disciples where Christ is not yet known. That conviction shapes everything we do in church planting. In a previous article I was able to focus on where we, as Southern Baptists and the North American Mission Board (NAMB), have been over the last 15 years.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Despite potential barriers within the congregation, the community and the broader culture, new Hispanic churches in the U.S. are reaching new people and welcoming new faces.

Fifteen years ago, Southern Baptists rallied around a simple, biblical conviction: we must send. Out of the Great Commission Resurgence emerged a fresh strategy – Send North America (now called Send Network) – to help churches plant evangelistic, Bible-anchored congregations in the places of greatest need.

WHITEFISH, Mont. (BP) – At the very moment pastor Curt Sparkman spread his arms preaching a sermon at Lower Stillwater Lake in northwest Montana, a bald eagle stretched its wings overhead, Sparkman told Baptist Press.