Missoula Church Plant
Christian and Marilyn Cryder and family
“All Souls Missoula is a community of faith in Jesus, but one where you don't have to share our convictions in order to be our friends. As a group, we are learning what it means to love God and our neighbors. (And frankly, most of the time we don't do either very well!) But we're in this together and excited about where it's headed.”
All Souls Missoula
PO Box 758
Missoula, MT 59806
406.529.5568
Ryan and Rachel Sutherland and family
Helena Church Plant
"God has been at work in our hearts giving us a love for the people and place of Helena, Montana. After nearly 30 years serving churches in the Southeast, I have been called by the Presbyterian Church in America to be an evangelist - loving the gospel and Helena through planting healthy churches. Our compass is moving from the South to the West. For me, a native Coloradoan, this is coming home. For my wife, it is coming to the place where she ‘feels more alive!'"
Steve and Via Bostrom
All Souls Community Church
allsoulsofhelena.com
PO Box 72
Helena, MT 59624
406.422.1026
Why church planting?
PCA Pastor Tim Killer answers that question in his excellent article "Being the Church in our Culture":
"Numerous new churches are the only way to really expand the number of Christians in a city. New churches reach the non-churched far more effectively than longer-existing churches. Dozens of studies confirm that the average new church gains most of its new members from the ranks of people who are not attending any worshipping body, while churches over 10-15 years of age gain 80-90% of new members by transfer from other congregations. This means that the average new congregation will bring new people into the life of the Body of Christ at 6-8 times the rate of an older congregation of the same size. ...
Planting lots of new churches is one of the best ways to renew existing churches. New churches bring new ideas to the whole Body. It is the new churches that have freedom to be innovative and they become the 'Research and Development' department for the whole Body in the city. ...
We firmly believe that the vigorous, continual planting of new congregations is the single most crucial strategy for reaching a city. Nothing else--not crusades, outreach programs, para-church ministries, mega-churches, consulting, nor church renewal processes--will have the consistent impact of dynamic, extensive church planting. This is an eyebrow raising statement. But to those who have done any study of the subject, it is not even controversial."
