FIRST PERSON: Keep Sending: A family of churches and a bold vision for the next decade

Southern Baptists are at our best when we send – when local churches lock arms to plant evangelistic, Bible-anchored congregations and make disciples where Christ is not yet known. That conviction shapes everything we do in church planting. In a previous article I was able to focus on where we, as Southern Baptists and the North American Mission Board (NAMB), have been over the last 15 years.

Now, I want to address where we are headed as a family of churches. NAMB doesn’t plant churches; churches plant churches. Our role is to assist churches – exactly what messengers have tasked us to do – by helping them assess, train, coach and care for planters and teams, with a priority for population centers and underserved areas.