Church Planting Sunday in September

Every year in the Alliance we encourage churches to spend one day praying for and highlighting church plants. Our goal is to plant 30 new Kingdom Advancing Environments in 10 years and the National Office has a goal of planting 100 new churches over a 2-year period. We want to see more hope-filled churches started that will reach the lost, serve those in need, and see God’s Kingdom advance.

Here are a few ways you can ENGAGE:

• Choose any Sunday in September for your church to highlight church planting and multiplication. You can set aside an entire Sunday, or even 5–10 minutes of the service, to share the importance of multiplication in fulfilling God’s mission.

• Use the resources provided at cmalliance.org/cpsunday, including sermon outlines, videos, and graphics, to plan and promote your service.

• If you’re a pastor or church leader, will you prayerfully consider planting a church or partnering with another church in your area to do so?

• If you’re a church planter or part of a church-planting team, will you tell us more about the community where you’re planting and how the Alliance family can pray for and support you in your plant?

• If you attend an Alliance church, will you ask your leaders how you can help support a church-planting movement in your district/area?

Church Planting Sunday Prayer Requests:

Please pray for our church plants to have:

• Greater opportunities to reach their communities through open doors and new relationships.

• Fruitful discipleship of those that want to follow Jesus.

• Strength and empowerment to continue the vision that God has for them in their church plant.

Here are 11 current church plants and new Kingdom environments that you could pray this for this year on church planting Sunday:

1. Christ Community Church – Rugby, ND – Gary Dorn

2. Compassion Church – Anoka, MN – Rob Bergfalk

3. Deaf Church – Detroit Lakes, MN – Pete Billodeau

4. Ekklesia – Sioux Falls, SD – Jimmy Sourile

5. Fullness of Christ Church – Apple Valley, MN – Ermias Aberra

6. Morningstar Family – Elk River, MN – Paul Salfrank

7. Mosaic Alliance Church – St. Paul, MN – Jerry Kragt

8. One Degree Church – Mora, MN – Jesse Doughty

9. Zion Evangelical Fellowship – Minneapolis, MN – Alhoubele Mamo

10. New Story - Brooklyn Park, MN - David Lee

11. Riverside Buffalo Campus - Buffalo, MN - Tom Lundeen & Nate Sickler