Discipling The Peoples of North America

The population of North America is 323 million, and growing daily. It is estimated that approximately 226 million are lost and unreached. In order to obey the command of Jesus Christ to make disciples of all ta ethne (people groups), the Church Planting Group of the North American Mission Board advocates people-focused church planting approaches.  People-focused church planting seeks to plant the gospel with contextual methods, addressing specific worldviews and cultures. Biblical missiology is foundational to people-focused church planting, providing the principles, patterns, and strategy for evangelizing and congregationalizing the unreached peoples of North America.

It is easy to assume that North Americans are over-churched. But, in reality, North America is a mission field so populous that it cannot be reached for Christ without starting large numbers of new churches. God is beginning a movement of church planting in North America--will you join Him? Invest in eternity.

Join Others in the Great Commission

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them...., teaching them..."

"Church planting is much more caught than taught....If God is leading you to plant a church, do it. That's what I did..."

- John Mark Clifton
Kansas City, Missouri

"Everything that we have given...God has always replaced many times over. Church planting is God's way of extending His church and His kingdom...all across our land."

- Frank Cornelius
Deer Trail, Colorado

"My intention as pastor was to help our church see that we could have a better impact and a greater impact on our community and our city if we would be involved in planting churches. If we could do that, we would reach more people for Christ.

I want us to be a church that's just like the church in the book of Acts that goes and is obedient to preaching the Word of God and starting churches. And it doesn't matter how big the church is. If a church makes a decision to plant a church, it will light a fire under your people. They will become excited because they are seeing God do something - not only in their local congregation - but outside the walls of that church. And that's where God told us to be on mission - outside the walls of our church. 

You don't have to be a large church to plant a church. You just have to have a desire and a passion to reach lost people for Christ. And if you have that desire, you'll find a way to do it."

- Pete Dominguez
Wichita, Kansas

"The greatest joy in starting a church is being part of something only God can do!"

- Cliff Ramsey
Blue Springs, Missouri

"Church planting is for lay believers, not just the seminary-trained and ordained few. Each believer is a vital part of a church planting movement, if he or she believes right and then behaves right. 

We must expect God to work around us, showing us where a Bible study could begin - and begin through us. Once we see hearts hungering for God, we must then obey God, and begin the process of starting a church. This is not complicated - it is obedience."

- Henry Blackaby
Rex, Georgia

"We never considered it losing a member in order to start another church. I'll never forget the Sunday we lost, or sent, 85 of our families. The very next week we had the largest attendance in Bible study we have ever had in the history of our church. It's God's way of saying, 'You can't out give Me.' We gave to that fellowship 85 tithing families. And yet God had a way of supplying, and our giving has never been better than it is now. It has never been a loss to our fellowship.

We can invest in something that will outlast us. We can watch churches grow like we watch our children grow. I really need to challenge my pastor friends to step out into deeper water and trust God in multiplying their ministry by starting new work and see the blessing that returns to their own local church family."

- Johnny Hunt
Woodstock, Georgia