Church Planting and Revitalization Director
Terry Crigger, Pastor
Christ’s Chapel Assembly of God
3819 Turfway Road
Erlanger, Kentucky 41018
Email: pastorterry@fuse.net
Church Planting and Revitalization: Vision, Strategy, Philosophy & Goals
Our Vision:
To create a structure whereby church planters are recognized, equipped and released to pioneer healthy churches in Kentucky and to assist current pastors and church leaders in overcoming the barriers of numerical growth and common ministry plateaus.
Our Strategy:
- Building pastoral relationships within the Kentucky District committed to the journey of establishing a network of trust and friendship as ideas and vision are shared that expand the kingdom of God within the framework of local churches.
- Participating in an aggressive journey of prayer and planning that results in a high percentage of involvement from our Kentucky ministries and churches in order to accomplish our stated goals.
Our Philosophy and Goals:
The local church is God’s idea and remains the primary witness of Jesus Christ upon this planet. The Great Commission is our mandate for evangelism that begins in each local church and expands first to our communities and then to the nations of the world. Church Planting and Revitalization is the biblical and primary strategy for enlarging the Kingdom of God. Cooperating with that strategy will assure success by increasing both the number of people coming to Christ and in believers maturing in the faith.
Our Superintendent, Joe Girdler, has stated our collective goal to significantly increase the number of churches in our district, which currently numbers approximately 150. Three specific goals for Church Planting between the years of 2010 and 2020 are…
Goal #1: Every county in Kentucky should have an Assembly of God witness. There are 120 counties in Kentucky and currently (2011) 35 counties without an Assembly of God church. It is the goal of the Kentucky District to assure each of those counties has at least one Assembly of God church by the year 2020.
Goal #2: That by the year 2020, each of the 12 Kentucky District sections pray, prepare and plant three additional Assembly of God churches that focuses on counties with no Assembly of God witness or strategic areas where population growth warrants more attention.
Goal #3: That the areas in Kentucky with more aggressive population growth such as Northern Kentucky, Louisville and Lexington plant a minimum of five additional Assembly of God churches by 2020.
Accomplishing these goals within the decade of 2010 to 2020 seems challenging, yet realistic and visionary. With clarity of spiritual insight, our primary challenge is in moving beyond the “business as usual” mentality and choosing to believe God for something miraculous in our lifetime. Having an ending goal of establishing nearly 50 church plants in one decade eliminates the pressure of creating something too quickly that will be short lived, and it also gives us adequate time to create strategy and foundational structure to build for lasting success. Reaching this goal will result in the total of approximately 200 churches by the end of this decade (2020).
