WHY PLANT CHURCHES, ANYWAY?
by Tim Keller, Senior Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church

The vigorous, continual planting of new congregations is the single most crucial strategy for the 1) numerical growth of the Body of Christ in any city, and the 2) continual corporate renewal and revival of the existing churches in a city. Nothing else - not crusades, outreach programs, para-church ministries, growing mega-churches, congregational consulting, nor church renewal processes - will have the consistent impact of dynamic, extensive church planting. > MORE

REDEEMER'S SOUTH AMERICAN SISTER
RPC Has A Two-Year Old Sister. And More On The Way.

In the middle of Campinas, a city of almost 1 million located 80 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, the Presbyterian Community Chacara Primavera (CPCP) is a sign of God's love and power. After only two-and-a-half years, the community counts among its 300 members secular professionals, executives of large companies and university students. And they're already paving the way to plant more churches. Church planting pastor Ricardo Agreste da Silva reports, "People of secularized mind and materialistic heart have become disciples of Christ and agents of transformation in the city." > MORE

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO START A MOVEMENT?
J. Allen Thompson looks at the one in Ephesus

G. Campbell Morgan summarizes the power of the Gospel and of God's instrument, Paul. "Paul then at Ephesus was making tents, conducting a great course of apologetics for Christianity, fulfilling the function of the pastor, watching over the flock, admonishing with tears and teaching from house to house." But he was also directing a great missionary enterprise to that whole region round about Ephesus. In all... > MORE

THE ALLIANCE
RCPC and COPGNY lead the charge to hundreds of churches in a decade.

Hundreds of brand new biblically-centered churches, ethnically and denominationally diverse, all planted in the next decade? The Redeemer Church Planting Center and Concerts of Prayer Greater New York (COPGNY), along with the churches of Greater New York have forged The Church Planting Alliance, a partnership designed to birth... > MORE

ELEVEN QUESTIONS WITH CHURCH PLANTER CHARLIE DREW

TM: Who is (are) your hero(es)?
CD: William Wilberforce, who stuck at the fight against slavery for 50 years. My wife, who is likewise very faithful to the Lord.

TM: Describe your congregation in 10 words or less:
CD: Young, bright, diverse, 50 percent single... > MORE

A MOVER OF MOVEMENTS
About the Redeemer Church Planting Center

A church planting movement is a Spirit-directed activity which naturally builds, renews and expands the body of Christ in a given city/region through the recovery and application of the Gospel. The movement produces hundreds of new believers, scores of leaders and dozens of new churches that bring spiritual, social, and cultural change to the city and surrounding region. > MORE