NAMB’s Send Network aims to boost urban church planting efforts

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The Bushwick neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., is small in terms of land area—roughly two square miles—but more than 120,000 people call it home.

“It’s an urban poor context, a community with a lot of need,” said Danny Torres, who was born and raised in Bushwick and planted Swerve Church in his community in 2016 as part of Send Network. “The kids who walk our streets, they’ve seen a lot of crazy things. The people in our communities have experienced a lot of loss. Planting in the urban context is hard soil, even for someone who was born and raised here.”