10-10-10 Initiative Invites Churches to Plant New Congregations
The 10-10-10 Initiative calls attention to church planting on October 10, 2010, encouraging individuals, congregations, and networks to pray, support, and launch new churches. Exponential Conference and Stadia are helping churches connect around resources, offerings, and a shared call to action.
- October 10, 2010, is being promoted as a significant day for new church launches across the country.
- The 10-10-10 Initiative offers free resources, sermon content, service ideas, and affinity groups.
- Stadia is asking plants and partnering churches to take a special offering for future church plants.
By Jennifer Taylor
October 10, 2010, is 10-10-10. It is a Sunday. And it will be the birthday for new churches across the country.
The team behind the Exponential Conference, “the largest gathering of church planters on the planet,” developed the 10-10-10 Initiative to focus attention on church planting. Individuals, congregations, and even entire planting networks can participate by praying, adopting a church plant for encouragement and financial support, planning a sermon series, or even launching a new church. The Web site includes a central repository of sermon content, service ideas, and other materials (for free!), and offers affinity groups to connect participants across denominational and regional lines.
The ministry writes, “10-10-10 affords networks and denominations opportunities to rally local churches within their fellowship to investigate church planting, for local churches to pursue next steps in planting, and for individuals to discover how they might take the next step in church planting.” The goal is hundreds of ministries partnering with thousands of existing churches to see millions of lives transformed.
Church Planting Call to Action
In addition, Stadia: New Church Strategies (Irvine, California) is asking each of its plants and partnering churches to take a special offering on October 10 for future church plants.
“It’s more than just a day,” says Brent Foulke, Stadia’s associate executive director for mobilization. “It’s a cross-denominational focus and a call to action to launch new churches this fall.”
Learn more, join the initiative, and access resources at http://101010initiative.org/.
Jennifer Taylor, one of CHRISTIAN STANDARD’s contributing editors, lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She also writes a blog at www. christianstandard.com.
