Volunteers  spend  a month in the summer vacation evangelizing in a target place.  Using the `Contact-convert-congregate' action plan, a congregation is  formed and turned over to a pioneer pastor who continue the work when the volunteers return home. A new church is planted!     The church planting system is called "Summer of Service" (S.O.S.)

Church planting is the main work  of the church

• The main intention of Jesus Christ  is to build permanently a people for Himself.  His mission in coming to earth is to redeem a people by dying on the cross and resulting in the gathering of the redeemed. He said, “I will build my church...” Matthew  16:18.

• Church Planting Preserves the Results of Evangelism.  Money and effort invested in evangelism will be wasted without the creation of a new church to nurture them. The New Church is the Lord’s assembly to which He adds those who are saved: `Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.’ Acts 5:14.

• Church Planting Presents a Continuing Witness to the City.   In evangelizing a new area, the new believers should be organized as a new church  and  equipped to be able to share the gospel message to others. We go to invade an enemy territory, we go there to stay and keep the enemy out. The most effective way of staying in the town is by planting a church.

Each church is the "church planter"

• Churches are born by churches. Every  local church planting another church is  the most natural and practical way to plant churches.  The   church is not just an end but also a means to an end, not just a goal, but also a tool. The established local church is God’s instrument in the formation of other churches.

• Local church leadership and membership involved in church planting. When a local church decides to plant another church, it will be an application of the priesthood of every believer. Leaders commit to motivate, train and mobilize ordinary believers.

Church planting is learned by actually doing it

• Church planting   cannot be learned by    class room type sessions.  It is learned by actually doing it.   We need to bring our church members  to the actual church planting environment – a church planting laboratory – where they will learn how to do it!

• Babies learn to talk by talking, learn to walk by walking. Churches learn to plant churches by actually planting a church

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