We have just received a shipment of our new brochure entitled “Reaching our Judaea”.  This brochure promotes Baptist church planting in Iowa.  If you are interested in this flyer or would like several to hand out please contact me by leaving a comment.  This brochure needs to be in the hands of every pastor in Iowa, any pastor who has a burden for church planting, Bible college students and young men who are called to preach.

When it comes to church planting, there is no end to the amount of methodology that is being promoted and yet we are not getting the job done.  There was, however, a time prior to advanced media, technology and entertainment that the job WAS getting done in America.  The Separate Baptist Revival of the mid 1700′s literally changed our country and its ideals.  It created what is referred to today as “The Bible Belt” (tho not always very Biblical any more) and its influence crept into the north as her converts journeyed that way.

In this new book, Multiplying Model, James Beller (pastor, church planter, historian and author) has explained the inner workings of the Separate Baptist Revival and how churches were planted (multiplied) by the thousands at an amazing rate.  Not only is the Separate Baptist model of church planting proven historically, it is also scriptural.  You will also find testimonies in the book of those who are using and proving the multiplying model today.

Other than the obvious principle of “churches starting churches” the book centers around one theme “Pastor Initiated Church Planting” which, as described in the book, is pastors doing the work of an evangelist.  A current problem when it comes to church planting today is that of wasting time.  We waste time trying to raise a lot of money to start a church and then we waste time waiting for “the right young guy” to come along to do the work of an evangelist for us.

I encourage you to purchase this book, not merely for its interesting historical content, but for its main purpose – helping pastors see how America was impacted in a large way so that we can see how we can have that same impact today.  You can order the book from Prairie Fires Press (which is a link on the right under ‘Book Stores’).  You can also visit multiplyingmodel.com (linked on the right under ‘Helpful Sites’) which is an interactive site created to help pastors, evangelists and church planters who are interested in the multiplying model network with one another in church planting efforts.

Pastor, author, historian and active church planter James Beller and the Arnold Baptist Tabernacle of Arnold, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis) are hosting a church planter’s campmeeting on January 31st and February 1st, 2011 (a Monday and Tuesday).  This meeting is for pastors, evangelists, missionaries and church planters and will be like no other church planting conference you have ever attended.  For more information click here.  Come and leave and changed in your outlook on church planting.