Top Ten Things that Everyone Needs to Know About Church Planting at Fair Haven:
1. Rock Harbor is about to launch weekly worship on February 14, 2010 under the direction of Campus Pastor Louis Ford, this new worship venue is designed for people who are looking to connect to God and each other in a welcoming and high energy environment, while being challenged to commit their lives to Christ and his body the church resulting in life change and the opportunity to live and work as world changers. This Connect. Commit. Change. strategy is the DNA of church multiplication that we will use to plant passionate churches that fuel a passion for God. For more information go to www.myrockharbor.org
2. Rockhills Church in San Antonio has completed their move from a popular movie theater to a local public school building. They have had worship attendance above 200 throughout the month of January with 281 on Sunday the 24th. You can check out their website at www.rockhills.com
3. We are in the process of beginning our first off-site worship location. This new congregation will be located 5 to 10 miles from the main Fair Haven campus and will seek to serve the larger West Michigan community and reach those who outside the body. We are in the process of building a new launch team that we hope will be fully functioning in June of 2010.
4. Lighthouse Village Ministries is in the redevelopment process right now and we look for some important developments to come about in the spring.
5. Harbor Network is the church multiplication arm of Fair Haven. You can get updates and information on Planting Passionate Churches on the Harbor Network blog at www.harbornetwork.typepad.com or follow the network on Twitter at www.twitter.com/HarborNetwork
6. We are beginning to work with the South Grand Rapids Classis of the Reformed Church in America to plant a church among the Bhutanese and South Asian refugees who are coming to the Grand Rapids area. This project will be done in coordination with Words of Hope and Spotlight Radio and will have a global element as we support efforts to win Bhutan and Nepal to Christ.
7. Why is this relevant to the "average" Fair Haven family member? Because new churches reach new people and the very DNA of Fair Haven includes church multiplication. To be a part of Fair Haven means involvement in Church Multiplication and Mission and Outreach. Our dream is that every Christian would be spiritually passionate and spiritually reproducing; that every Life Group would be spiritually passionate and spiritually reproducing; that every ministry and our entire church would be passionate and reproducing!
8. Lighthouses of Philadelphia just opened their third worship center in their three years of existence. They also have over 30 house churches and a homeless ministry in the greater Philadelphia area. New churches are changing the world around them!
9. The Reformed Church in America, our denominational family, is focused on Church Multiplication for a 10 year period. Our Call has as one of its five elements the goal of starting 400 new churches in 10 years in a 900 church denomination. We are almost six years into this project and have planted over 200 new congregations! The General Synod 2010 is focused on Church Multiplication when it meets in Orange City, Iowa June 11 through 15. Doug McClintic our Pastor of Mission and Multiplication will attend as a delegate as well as a long time member of the denominational Church Multiplication Team.
10. Prayer is what drives a movement of spiritual multiplication. The 938 project is all about praying for the harvest and multiplication. For more information about how you can get involved in this key prayer initiative just send an email to the938project@gmail.com
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