Midwest Church Planting

Gary Rohrmayer, Director of Church Planting

Lyle Schaller wrote "Church Planting continues to be the most useful and productive component of any denominational church growth strategy."

Church planting over the last 6 years has changed the landscape of the Midwest Conference. We are expanding into new territories. We are recapturing older areas and we are saturating others with multiple churches. I am very proud to be a part of our emerging movement of new churches here in the Midwest.

Quick Facts about Midwest Church Planting

4
church planters in pre-natal phase
4
church plants have finished the XtremeSteps campaign
7
new churches planted by new churches
10
church planting coaches mobilized
17
new churches planted by Midwest churches
43
churches launched
55
church planters mobilized
131
average weekly attendance
205
average big Sunday attendance in our new churches
1,202
people baptized in our new churches, 2000-2006
6,781
impacted by our new churches in 2006
$2,890.41
average weekly offerings in our new churches
$807,507
reinvested by new churches in Midwest
$1,913,500
given in matching grants from Midwest

from Gary's report at the 2007 Annual Meeting