Pioneers and Church Planters - The Methodist Church

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Love This Calling - pioneering and church planting

Lay and ordained people are pioneers and planters. Your call may include:

Imagining new places for new people who are not currently part of a community of faith.

Enabling individuals, on a journey with others, to make new disciples of Jesus and form flourishing Christian communities.

“I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” Isaiah 43:19 (NRSV)

What new things are springing up around you that God is calling you to nurture?
What could be something new God is calling you to start?

Maura talks about her calling to connect people together and how she’s doing that as a pioneer in Oldham.

Reflect on a time when you formed a vision for something that was yet to be started and encouraged others to be a part of it.

There are some excellent questions in a discernment journal for budding pioneers and planters (download here).