Where is the best place to plant a church with the ECC?
Wherever you have context, connections and resources is the best place. New churches are needed everywhere. Studies reveal that only about 20% of people throughout the Northwest Conference attend church on any given Sunday, and the un-churched population is growing much faster than we can plant new churches. So the simple answer to the question of where do we need to plant new churches is … everywhere! Planting also works best when there is a “Parenting” church that can provide capacity at the beginning of a new church plant. We also utilize groups of “Partnering Churches” to help a new work get started. We believe that God is creating a movement of church planting in our area that will allow us to reach every people group, neighborhood, and community with the Good New of Jesus Christ.
