churches
We want to help you connect with other like minded pastors in Kansas City to become friends on mission seeking to transform our city by leading healthy multiplying churches and contributing to a growing movement of multicultural church planting networks.
churches plant churches.
Our gospel dream is to see a movement of church planting.
We imagine a new church planted in every neighborhood and community in Kansas City. This dream requires all of us to look at the disciples in our churches as disciple-makers and church planters.
Our role as an existing church is to support and equip church planters.
We think a movement of new churches will not come from outsiders moving to our city; a movement of church planting will come from our pews, our neighborhoods, and our city.
We want to become churches that plant churches because we’ve become disciples that make disciples who make disciples.
We’re here to help you build a disciple-making culture in our city, develop a pipeline of spiritual leaders in your faith community, and equip them to plant new churches.
What does it look like to be a part of the movement?
commit to values.
We come from many tribes, but all share one aim: to participate in God’s kingdom in Kansas City. We navigate diversity by committing ourselves to these four tasks.
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Doing this alone is next to impossible, so we have intentional rhythms for being friends on mission together.
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From disciples to leaders, churches to networks, creating and catalyzing reproducing movements is at the center of everything we do.
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We keep the money at the edges of movement. Networks pool their resources (people, pennies, and platform) locally to plant church planting churches together.
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newthing churches are committed to investing in the next generation of church planters, which means creating apprenticing pipelines for future church planting.
commit to action.
We want to be action-oriented communities, thus we commit to reorienting our leadership and our ministries toward the Kingdom of Jesus.
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newthing churches work toward 5-10% of thier budget being committed to church planting.
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Be present in 80% of monthly gatherings. We gather to reconnect, refocus, and encourage one another.
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It is not easy to change or shift our focus, sometimes we need someone else to point out our blind spots. Work with one of our network leaders to organize around church planting.
