How You Can Help

with Our Church-Planting Effort In the North Indiana Conference

1. PRAY. Regularly pray for our conference's church-planting effort. Encourage your whole church to begin praying as well.



2. SUBSCRIBE. Subscribe to a free monthly one-page newsletter describing our conference's church-planting/revitalization effort (also known as the 2010 Plan). This will include specific prayer concerns that you can pray for. To subscribe, notify Ed Fenstermacher at ed@nicumc.org and he'll add you to the mailing list.



3. GIVE. Give a monetary donation to a new-church plant or give to your district's "church builders" fund (if it has one).



4. EXPLORE. Begin exploring with your pastor and others in your congregation who God might be calling you to reach who are unlikely to attend your existing facility (e.g. those living in a mobile home park). Begin visiting other congregations that have effectively reached such groups. Ask questions. Prayerfully consider "what ifs."



5. SEEK PARTNERS. If your church is interested in exploring the possibility of helping to start a new congregation, contact your church's district superintendent or Ed Fenstermacher at the Conference Service Center in Marion (ed@nicumc.org).



6. GO. Lay persons can serve as a part of a new church's core leadership team, helping to start the new congregation. They can be short-term "missionaries" and eventually return to their original congregation, or they can become members of the newly planted church.