NC Baptists

Why growing churches are going churches

What’s more important: sending capacity or seating capacity? What if too many of our churches have emphasized one to the neglect of the other?

In this episode, Executive Director-Treasurer Todd Unzicker sits down with Andrew Hopper, pastor of Mercy Hill Church in Greensboro, to discuss the importance of strategic church growth and how it can fuel our members to go to the nations.

How a 200-year-old church created a sending culture

It’s not every day you encounter a two-century-old church with a goal to plant 20 churches in 20 years. And yet, for Hephzibah Baptist Church in Wendell, this sort of sending culture has become the heartbeat of the church.

 

In this episode, Executive Director-Treasurer Todd Unzicker sits down with Aaron Wallace, lead pastor of Hephzibah Baptist Church, to discuss the church’s cultural transformation, the joys and challenges of church planting and revitalization, and how God can use churches of all kinds to bring people the hope of the gospel.

How to move your church from where you are to what’s next

On this week’s episode, Send Network’s Brian Frye and Mike McDaniel share the recently announced Church Mobilization Pathway with SendNC’s Mike Pittman. They discuss what it looks like for all churches to become involved in church planting and sending. 

Listen to how this new five-step tool will assist churches in visualizing how they can become involved. 

Top 3 things church planters would do differently

Church planting is often a demanding journey for those getting started. With all the unexpected trials one faces while planting, it can be vital for church planters to learn from those who have gone before and hear what worked — and what didn’t work — for them.

This week on the N.C. Baptists’ Podcast, join church planters Mike Pittman, Antoine Lassiter and Barry Murry as they each share three things they would have done differently had they started the church planting process over again. 

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Hero Maker: 5 Essential Practices to Multiply Godly Leaders

Learn strategies to multiply your dreams, initiate permission-giving, develop an apprenticeship system that works, activate your leaders’ gifts and develop a simple scoreboard that measures kingdom-building progress. Speakers: Corey Alley, Quintell Hill, Donnie Paschall, Billy Roy

The Sending Church Collective: God's Great Collaboration

This episode will share the story of intentional reproducing church planting in North Carolina using real-time stories and family trees from across the state. May God convict others to become a sending church! Speaker: Mike Pittman

Developing International Church Planting Partnerships

First Baptist Church Duluth has developed strategic church planting partnerships with the nations that represent the largest unreached people groups in their local community. In this episode, they share how they partner with evangelical organizations in China, Mexico, Nigeria and India. Speakers: Joe Page, Daniel Kumar

Ministry in a Secular Age

As American culture becomes more and more secularized and fragmented, does the gospel still offer hope and meaning? How should we preach and lead in this context we find ourselves in? During this session, learn from a pastor who planted a church in one of the most secular areas of North Carolina and hear personal stories of the gospel taking root in the most unlikely of lives. Speaker: Chase Gardner

Sending Churches

Any size church can become a “sending church.” Churches that partner with new churches are positively impacted by increases in attendance, tithes and offerings, and mission giving. Becoming a sending church is one of the most effective ways to impact lostness through disciple-making. This session will discuss steps to partnering with a new church to positively impact both the sending church and the new church in ways that many are won to Christ.