On Friday afternoon, General Synod delegates celebrated the work of church multiplication within the RCA, including 16 multi-site plants that have been started over the last eight years. (A multi-site plant is started by a congregation that adds a new campus to expand its ministry.)
RCA coordinator for Church Multiplication Tim Vink and church planters from several regional synods shared stories of ministry growth, answered prayer, and transformation within their communities.
Nate Bull, pastor at Forefront Ministries in Benton Harbor, Michigan, started street ministry more than a decade ago, targeting areas with high drug traffic.
“Our call is to reestablish a reformed presence in the urban area both locally and globally–and with the help of the Lord, we are going to do it,” Bull told delegates. “We have drug dealers in and out of the house all the time and they allow us to pray for them, minister to them. We have three of them who are now working for us–ex-drug dealers, ex-gang members–I expect to see them at General Synod soon.”
Some new RCA church plants spring from new congregations’ commitment to plant additional churches; many more are planted by a handful of RCA churches that have a high commitment to planting. Still others are the result of classis leaders of the RCA and the Christian Reformed Church in North America working collaboratively through Kingdom Enterprise Zones.
Watch Nate Bull and other church planters share their stories of transformation and church planting:
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