Multiplying Church Planters

We call it a Bootcamp because it is intensive and it requires much from the participants. Such was the case at the second Church Planting Bootcamp that I was able to help teach and lead in the last three months.

This Bootcamp was held on the Biola University Campus in Los Angeles this week and was again sponsored by the Evangelical Free Church of America. I was there as a coach and one of five instructors with 21 students participating. This event was very multicultural and inter-generational. Like the Church Planting Bootcamp in Canada in April, I came away very impressed with the multicultural potential of church planting. God is up to something in the great mission field known as the Pacific Northwest.


The new theme that has emerged over the last few years is the church in mission in North America and the church as missionary in its context. Instead of the members of the church sending missionaries to foreign lands, the church members here are now seen as missionaries and the church is seen as a mission outpost in an unbelieving world. The students at the Church Planting Bootcamp are trained to be missionary leaders with a vision and strategy for reaching people who are unchurched and unsaved.

Students at the Bootcamp learn that North America is now known as the only place in the world where the Christian church is not growing and the population is now equal to the third largest mission field in the world! Church Planting Bootcamps are filled with eager learners who are answers to your prayers. Will you join with me in daily prayer that the Lord of the harvest will send forth workers into his harvest field to make disciples of Jesus who plant and multiply more churches (Matthew 9:36-38; 28:18-20)?