by Kevin Ezell, posted Tuesday, March 17, 2015 (9 years ago)
File photo by John Swain/NAMB
ALPHARETTA, Ga., (BP) -- Southern Baptists planted 985 new churches in 2014 -- a 5 percent increase over 2013 church starts.
This is very good news as we work toward diminishing the church-to-population deficit that steadily grew larger over the last century in the United States and Canada. It is also good because new churches, on average, reach people for Christ at a higher rate than existing churches.
These are churches like Mosaic in Alberta, Canada. They launched on Easter 2014 and have already seen 200 people give their lives to Christ, with 40 of them being baptized. They started giving to the Cooperative Program shortly after they launched. Read More