Project: Church Planter

For my class project I chose to take the church planting test and talk with some church planters. I really enjoyed doing this because church planting was something that I was interested in. I found that I did well on the entrepreneurial side but I was lacking in what I could grow or build. I talked with a few people about this including Tom Rees and found that to strengthen this area I needed experience. I could go about this in different ways. I could help out at a church plant or even intern at one so that I could get hands on experience as to how a church plant is run. I could also try to look for a job at a church plant to also gain experience. I also learned that I could go through a program run through Chi Alpha, since I was interested in possibly getting involved with starting a campus ministry, to get training and even do an internship at a campus that has Chi Alpha ministry.

I also feel that by gaining more experience I will learn more about ministry than I do in classes. I did an internship over the summer and learned a great deal about ministry through doing ministry and talking with the founder of the organization that I interned with. I feel as if there was more experience involved in classes at college, students would learn far more than what they could from textbooks and reading.

I am currently praying as well as sending my resume and applications to different churches and organizations to gain experience and find what God has for me. I am still interested in possibly at least getting involved with church planting and I pray that somehow I will get involved with it in some aspect.