Lay Missionary Planting Network

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Love God. Love your neighbors. Go make disciples of all nations.

The Lay Missionary Planting Network exists to find, equip, and mobilize lay persons to start new faith communities in populations and contexts in which traditional approaches have not proven fruitful.

The Great Commandment and Great Commission are very clear. How are you living those out? Is God calling you to live them in new and exciting ways? In ways that reach more of your multi-cultural neighbors with the love and grace of Jesus Christ?

The Lay Missionary Planting Network (LMPN) is designed with a simple idea in mind: equipping gifted and called people to engage in planting new multi-cultural faith communities either as leaders or as part of a team that helps start new churches that reach new people to grow God’s reign on earth.

All faithful Christians are in a real sense missionaries. Those who convey the Good News of God's love and forgiveness to others near and far; carry the missionary spirit within them.

Missionaries enrolled in LMPN come from many places and backgrounds. Missionaries interested in LMPN feel:
• a vast need to serve the mission field in their own backyard and
• a special call to reach this mission field by starting something new.

Over the course of 12-18 months, participants enrolled in LMPN will experience a community of believers who are:
• committed to discern God’s will for their ministry,
• supported by mentors and teachers who have experience planting new congregations, and
• determined, with God’s help, to find better ways of sharing the Gospel with our multi-cultural community.

Training opportunities (taught in English and Español) will help participants learn how to reach their multi-cultural neighbors. Participants enrolled in LMPN will experience, learn, and grow in the areas of:
• spiritual disciplines of prayer,
• worship and study in the Wesleyan tradition,
• reading & evangelizing the mission field,
• preaching & teaching,
• pastoral responsibilities in The United Methodist system,
• discipling & mentoring leaders,
• growing & multiplying ministries,
• Christian stewardship, and
• creating ministry action plans.

All Virginia/Baltimore-Washington sessions will be presented in Spanish. To register for the Virginia/ Baltimore - Washington session click here.

For more information please contact Bener Agtarap (bagtarap@gbod.org) 877-899-2780 ext. 7121.