From our very first day, we have been committed to becoming a church planting church. We have felt that the model of the early church was to multiply communities and churches around the region and around the world. That has a nice sound to it, but what has God uniquely equipped us to do that perhaps would allow us to make a specific and tangible contribution to the church planting world? Well, it turns out that we have developed some specific skill in a particular type of church planting. I'm referring to planting a church:
1) In the South
2) In a semi-rural area
3) In a growing community that is changing from rural to suburban
4) Where there is no other church that is specifically designed to reach people who don't go to church.
Now, I'm not suggesting that we know everything there is to know or that we are the best or better than anyone else. But we have learned a thing or two about how to do this (and what not to do). So, instead of just sending money resources, we are partnering with other churches in Chesterfield and Amelia to plant Amelia Community Church - a unique church plant in Amelia with the very specific mission of reaching unchurched people in that community. PCC is the primary sponsor church, and we will provide leadership and oversight to the project and to the church planter until they get going. We have also allocated part of our missions budget to this church (PCC tithes our budget each year).
There is a community meeting on October 7 in Amelia and we have a couple of ads being run in the Amelia paper inviting interested folks to come. I'll be doing a presentation there and trying to get some excitement generated for it, but frankly there is already a good buzz happening.
It's very exciting that we could be a major part of this venture. If you would like to be involved, please call our office and let Lori Wheeler know.
Thanks for praying for what God is doing in Amelia!
Brian
4 comments:
Ok! This is incredibly exciting! To think that PCC is only 4 or so years old and we are already planting a church is a real testimony to the heartbeat of this body! I am so honored to be a part of this body of believers who are visionaires for Christ!
Rock on PCC!!!!
I think it is a great idea for PCC to help get a church started up in Amelia like PCC but I clearly would not like our Pastor to Pastor there and at PCC. I feel that when Pastor's do that they really do not have a home church and it is hard on the members too when their Pastor is one place one weekend and another at another weekend...
Just my opinion...
I think that ACC is a great idea and this is what we are called to do .It should have its own pastor ,with his own mission ,we can sister church with them but we need attention paid to our church needs also ,we need Brian to stay as he is now focusing on PCC ,we can certainly help ACC but lets not loose our focus
this is to the anno, who wasn't into the pastor preaching one weekend at powhatan and the next weekend at amelia. I go to a local church right now in amelia and my pastor preaches at another chuch off of 153 and in town on the same day. If you time it so the services do not conflict it can be done. like have worship early and then sunday school, allow enough travel time, to get to the other church. it can be done pray about it and let go and let God take the wheel it can be done.
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