Ablaze! Covenant Congregations
Helping to fulfill the 2004 LCMS Synod convention mandate to plant 2,000 new congregations in the United States by 2017 as part of its Ablaze! initiative, LCMS World Mission provides leadership and assistance to help healthy congregations replicate themselves. Working with LCMS mission leaders, districts, and mission societies, 600 “healthy” Synod congregations that will commit to planting three or four “daughter” congregations each by 2017 are being identified and invited to spearhead this church-planting movement as "Ablaze! Covenant Congregations."
Every congregation--regardless of its growth potential--can take part in church planting by partnering with LCMS World Mission and other congregations to provide prayer and financial support, and perhaps even ministry leaders willing to serve outside their communities.
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