Church Planting

Church Planting

One of the most effective ways to reach new people with the Gospel is through planting new churches. Across North America, research consistently shows that new churches reach more unchurched people and see faster growth than existing congregations alone. In fact, church plants often reach 3–5 times more new believers in their early yearsthan established churches. For that reason, church planting remains one of the most strategic ways to expand Gospel witness in a community.

The Pulaski Baptist Association desires to help identify unreached and underserved areas of Central Arkansas and partner with churches to plant healthy, Gospel-centered congregations in those communities.

Church planting is not something one church does alone. It happens when churches work together.

There are several ways churches in our association can participate:

Partner Churches
Some churches may serve as partner churches by providing short-term help through prayer support, mission teams, leadership encouragement, and financial assistance during the early stages of the plant.

Sending Churches
Other churches may sense the call to serve as a sending church. Sending churches make a deeper commitment by helping identify, equip, and send the planter while walking closely with the new church until it becomes healthy and self-sustaining.

Together with partners like the Arkansas Baptist State Convention and the North American Mission Board, we want to help raise up leaders, identify strategic locations, and support new congregations that will reach people who currently have little connection to a local church.

One recent example of this vision in action is Connect Church, a new church plant in our association that is already making an impact in its community.

Our prayer is that God would continue to raise up church planters and partner churches so that more people across Central Arkansas can hear the Gospel and experience the life-changing hope of Christ.