MICROpolitan

Half of all the people in the USA live in metropolitan areas, this means that the other half do not!  As we ask God for these precious people's souls to be won to Jesus Christ, we must renew our efforts to focus on the smaller communities where so many people live.  Sociologists call communities of impact with less than 50,000 people "Micropolitan" communities. That is the heart of our effort to see people reached and gathered into culturally relevant, Grace Brethren Churches.

For more of an explanation listen to this Podcast:

An Interview of Tony Webb about  MICROpolitan Church Planting by Ron Boehm 

    click here to listen in

 

 

 

We need your prayers!

If you would like to be a part of the Micropolitan Church Planting Prayer Network, please send an email to Tim to get on the list for Prayer Updates. truesch@churchaday.com

 

For more information about Micropolitan Church Planting contact Tony at twebb@churchaday.com

 

Resources from the Micropolitan meetings and summits are collected below:

Southwest Grace and Tony Webb have sponsored Micropolitan Church Planting Summits to catalyze a church planting movement in Ohio with the dream of seeing a church a day being planted.  Below is a list of those summits and some links to resources provided at those occasions.

Initial Micropolitan Church Planting Summit- November 11, 2004

at Southwest Grace Brethren Church in Grove City, OH

PowerPoint presentation on Vision Building > vision, fraternity, prayer by Tony Webb (1.7 MB)

 

Summary of the Summit (PDF)

 

Second Micropolitan Church Planting Summit- April 21, 2005

at Southwest Grace Brethren Church in Grove City, OH

PowerPoint presentation by Ron Boehm on Spirited Orthodoxy (3 MB)

PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Terry Hofecker on Biblical Success (1.1 MB)

PowerPoint presentation by Tony Webb on Luke 9-10 Groups and Leadership Development (1.2 MB)

 

Summary of Evaluation sheets from the Summit (PDF)

 

Third Micropolitan Church Planting Summit- November 10, 2005

at Southwest Grace Brethren Church in Grove City, OH

PowerPoint presentation by Tony Webb of Vision Adoption and Diachronic Continuum (2.6 MB)

 

North East Ohio Micropolitan Church Planting Summit- April 2006

at Millersburg Grace Brethren Church in Millersburg, OH

 

 

Fourth Micropolitan Church Planting Summit- April 22, 2006

at Southwest Grace Brethren Church in Grove City, OH

 

       Some pictures and report  here