Accelerate is developing coaching networks for church planting pastors

Accelerate

Mission: An Alliance of church planting churches, networks and denominations to accelerate church planting in the Washington / Baltimore corridor

Vision: Coming alongside in a collaborative effort to attract, inspire and equip kingdom-minded leaders to engage their time, talent and treasure in catalyzing a movement of healthy, reproducing faith communities.

 

We collaborate to:

A.    Serve Church Planters:

(Pastors who are launching new churches)

1.    Creating Coaching Networks for peers of planting pastors led by experienced church planters providing encouragement, equipping and permission giving

Goal: 5 Coaching Networks running, 7 coaches recruited in 2012

2.    Meeting, encouraging, consulting and networking with church planters

Goal: Meet two planters weekly in 2012. Recruit to coaching networks.

Visit new church services twice monthly

B.    Serve Church Planting Churches:

(Churches who have significantly helped at least 3 new churches launch in the last 5 years)

1.    Strategic learning sessions with Church Planting Church leaders to share learnings and stimulate progress

Goal: Yearly spring gathering with best practice discussions

           

2.    Networking together churches and national planting networks to establish church planting churches as equipping centers

            Goal: Two new equipping centers in 2012, each training planters who are

 being sent out by various churches in the area

                       

3.     Advance Church Planting through the Accelerate Blog/Web site:

1.    Highlighting God at work through story telling

2.    Recruiting and connecting potential planters to churches, networks and denominations

3.    Communicating resources and events for encouraging and equipping church planters

                        Goal: Site operating by March 2012

4.     Develop the Accelerate organization and raise funds for ministry operations:

1.    Develop an Advisory Team of business leaders and pastors

Goal: Initial team by December 2011

2.    Raise operating funds to free up staff to resource leaders         

Goal: Partnering as a ministry of Faith in the Family for 501c3 status by Nov. 2011

                        Goal: Raise 50% of funds by June 2012, 100% by December 2012

Ron Johnson, Executive Director                  703-582-3755              RonJohnsonOffice@aol.com