Raleigh Boot Camp & A Praying Nation
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It is very humbling to see how God is significantly using our network to influence and shape the church planting culture. Acts 29 Network exists to start churches that plant churches. Next week in Raleigh, North Carolina, over 250 individuals will be joining us at the new location of Vintage21 for a two day boot camp. Our boot camps are simple but profound: emphasizing solid theology and contextualizing the gospel. We will not waver on either of these commitments. We will not water down our theology to reach more people and we will not attack the culture in the name of Christianity. We are planting churches that are missionaries in their respective communities sent by Christ with the gospel (John 20:21).
Another emphasis of our boot camp is our church planters' assessments. Accurate assessment of a church planter is essential in a field with a high failure rate. Unless you really like pain and frustration, you do not want to attempt to plant a church unless you have been equipped, gifted and specifically called by God to do so. We have 36 potential church planters and their wives joining us next week for assessment. These church planters represent men that are seeking a final confirmation of their call to plant a church and men who are well established in their church plant desiring to partner with a like-minded, Christ-centered, missional network. These 36 men are coming from everywhere and planting everywhere. Some of the locations of these future church plants include Scotland, Saskatchewan, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Illinois, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and several in Georgia, Ohio, North Carolina, and of course, Texas has to represent the largest number of potential plants.
There will be 26 Acts 29 lead pastors coming to participate in the speaking, networking, and assessing of boot camp. Some have just celebrated their one year church anniversary, Catalyst Church, others will officially launch this coming Sunday, The Oaks Community Church, some are coming from the Pacific coast, Red Sea Church, Bremerton, WA, Seaside Church and Soteria Church, from the South, City on a Hill and CityView Church, with a majority coming from east of the Mississippi River.
Our speakers consist of some of the best that Acts 29 has to offer: Our host Tyler Jones and Matt Stevens,Vintage21, Chan Kilgore, Crosspointe Church, Daniel Montgomery, Sojourn Community Church, Jason Roberts, Crossurrent Church and some studs like Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church, Dr. Ed Stetzer, LifeWay Research and Dr Alvin Reid of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. We will even have Kimberly Jones leading the wives' track.
We would count it an honor if you would join us in praying for an amazing work of God's grace to be poured out on the events of next week. Pray that churches would be planted and replanted that proclaim the name and work of Jesus Christ to their community, city, and surrounding area as we begin to see cities and a nation transformed by the saving work of the Holy Spirit.
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