Church Planting
Our Board of Directors and Churchnet Staff are organized into a series of ministry teams. These teams allow us to better focus on our strategic initiatives and respond to requests from churches.
The planting of new churches is at the heart of the Great Commission and foundational to any strategy to reach our communities for Christ. We will seek to assist local congregations as they plant new churches.
- Establish church planting networks to provide support, assistance and financial resources for new churches
- Develop church planting models and encourage church planting churches
- Assist churches in identifying priority church planting needs
- Provide church planting assessment, strategy assistance, and training resources for church planters and sponsoring churches
Churchnet is developing a Church Planting Network through our forum and online discussion groups. It is open to Baptists and other Christians involved in or interested in Church Planting.
The network is designed to facilitate dialogue and discussion about church planting and the issues related to helping new churches grow to maturity. We hope the network will be helpful to you as you seek to extend the Kingdom.
Churchnet - A Baptist Network Serving Churches (and a ministry of the Baptist General Convention of Missouri) has provided financial assistance to several new churches. If you are interested in being a part of a new church or helping to sponsor a new church, contact the Church Planting Team for more information regarding resources available to assist you.
Owen Taylor is the Church Planting Team Leader. He has extensive experience as a pastor of missions in Missouri and Illinois. He was the church planter and founding pastor for a new contemporary church in St. Louis called Sanctuary Fellowship. He has broad denominational experience including serving as vice-president of the Baptist General Convention of Missouri. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar and Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City.
Please contact the Churchnet office or our Church Planting Team if we can be of assistance to your church.
Dr. Owen L. Taylor
Church Planting Team Leader
St. Louis Office:
17 Finlay Fields
Manchester, MO 63021
Phone: (888) 420-2426 Ext. 708
E-mail: otaylor@thechurchnet.org
