Your Church Can Grow

One of the most exciting initiatives to come out of our General Church is the Lay Missionary Planter Network. The idea is to train up laity to start new churches and reach new constituencies for Christ. We in Greater New Jersey are fortunate to be one of five Annual Conferences chosen to partner with the Path One team to identify, train and deploy laity for the purpose of starting new churches or new ministries. Not all of those trained will start a new church. Some will help by being part of a “Launch Team” for a new church plant. Read more about the LMPN . . .

The highlight of today’s “Lay Speaker Graduation” ceremony in East Brunswick, New Jersey was the class of young people. Ten younger people all under 25 graduated as lay speakers. The question for those of us older people is whether we will encourage their service. Will we ask them to preach? Will we encourage them to engage in new ministries? Will we support them when they come up with their own ideas?