The
modern approach to church planting is directed at producing an
institution or another branch of an existing institution. People
plan, organize, hire and fund an effort that, if successful, will
result in an institutional church structure that can sustain its own
cost of existence. This is not what we do at Sun Ministries. Sun
Ministries exists to facilitate the planting of churches we call
faith communities. We do not do this by planting churches or creating
institutions.
Sun
Ministries plants “churches” by making disciples and teaching
them to make disciples. As these disciples gather together they
naturally form a church. Isn't that really the church? The church is
a gathering of disciples. It is “Ekklesia” in the Greek.
As the disciples gather together they are taught how to function as
the church as outlined in Scripture. They are taught biblical
teachings on leadership, spiritual gifts, baptism and communion, etc
...
Sun
Ministries then uses its resources to help the local church rebuild
the inner city. We resource housing, businesses, vehicles and
training. We help supply a wide variety of things to the work of
caring for the local community. We are not a church. We do not run or
oversee the churches we “plant” We offer training, leadership,
resources and a connection to other churches. We continue our efforts
to make new disciples and gather them into new churches.
We
have made much of our basic training available for free at
www.discipledrivenchurch.org
We have established The Church@HydeParkand are empowering it to minister in its local community. If you
would like to learn more or connect with our work in any way just
email me – terry@sunministries.org
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