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Orchard Group

Orchard Group is a church-planting organization founded in 1948 that connects planters and partner churches to establish new churches in cities, supported through coaching, accountability, and targeted giving.

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Orchard Group — Organization Profile

Orchard Group is a Christian church-planting organization that connects church planters with generous partner churches to establish new churches in cities. Founded in 1948 and born in New York City, Orchard Group focuses on metro areas where population density, diversity, economic disparity, and spiritual need often intersect.

The organization’s stated mission centers on helping people encounter Jesus through the establishment of new churches. Orchard Group describes its work as “backing” church planters by pairing them with funding partners and walking alongside them through the challenges of starting a church until it becomes self-supporting, self-governing, and able to multiply.

A key distinctiveness in Orchard Group’s approach is its emphasis on both selection and support. The organization highlights a “highly selective” process for identifying planters and planting locations, alongside practical guidance that includes incorporation and financial systems, ministry strategy, coaching, accountability, and prayer. For partner churches, Orchard Group frames the relationship as a way to extend a church’s mission beyond its local community by investing in specific projects and staying meaningfully engaged through ongoing updates and reports.

Orchard Group’s public project listings reflect a broad geographic scope. The organization features church-planting efforts across U.S. cities and internationally, with projects and churches referenced in locations such as Washington Heights (NYC), Denver, Seattle, Camden, Paris, Dublin, Lagos, and other metro areas. Orchard Group invites supporters to “learn, pray, and give” by exploring current projects and supporting individual church-planting initiatives.

Ways to engage with Orchard Group include becoming a partner church, applying as a church planter, subscribing to prayer updates, and giving financially—either to a specific project, through the Seed Fund, or by check. Orchard Group also publishes annual reports and regular updates designed to help partners and individual supporters understand the progress and needs of churches being established in under-churched areas.