Two Upcoming Events for Equipping Planters

Find your place in urban church planting! Want to rediscover the birthplace of the RCA on Manhattan in New York City? Scholarships of $250 are available to send potential planters and parenting church leaders to the September 21-23, 2007, church planting track in New York City. Find yourself immersed in a celebration of the Fulton Street revival that brought thousands to Christ in 1857. (An RCA church leader was instrumental in sparking the revival.) Keynote speakers are Tim Keller of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York and Mark Batterson of Washington, D.C. Contact Tim Vink (tvink@rca.org) or Susan Ketcham (sketcham@rca.org) right away to participate as a group!

Calling all church planters! RCA Church Multiplication is offering training for church planters, their spouses, coaches, and even church planting teams! The last training event in Orlando, Florida, was hugely successful with over twice the number of church planters and church plants than the previous one in 2006. This has led us to provide a strategic training event every six months so that we can keep up with the growing number of church plants being started all over the country. If you are in the early stages of your church plant (six weeks to 12 months) and "on the field" of your mission, we want you to plan to attend our next Thrive! church planter training in Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 29–November 2, 2007. Six highly-motivated and experienced trainers will equip you through practical steps in church planting so that you won't need to go out and "reinvent the wheel," but instead you can build on the foundations laid by others. This training also includes a focused time for all those who will work with the Hispanic community, a rapidly growing area of the RCA family. Check out our Thrive! brochure. For more information, please contact Susan Ketcham at sketcham@rca.org or (800) 968-3943, ext. 274.