GAIN Retreat - Gospel Centrality - Friday Afternoon Session

My credentials

Pastoral ministry

Served at a mega-church from 2006-2010

Served as the associate pastor at a smaller church plant 2010-2018

Parachurch - WorldVenture

Local Church Partnerships

One of the big distinctions with Gain will be our emphasis on local churches planting churches - not GAIN.

As we partner with churches, we are going to two things:

1. Provide the tools to evaluate and prepare church planters

2. Provide the network of pooled resources so that these planters can be given the best chance possible of success.

When I say resources, don’t just think money - in fact maybe not mainly money.

I am talking mostly about expertise and experience.

This is why we are calling ourselves a collective and not a training planting network.

The idea of a collective is that we are all throwing in this together.

We can think about GAIN as a hub that collects/distributes information about how church planters can become more well equipped.

We can also think about GAIN as a tool to be used by local churches.

It drives me crazy when parachurch develops a mission that isn’t expressly local church-focused.