About Us

Director: George Klippenes

“There has never been a more exciting time to be alive serving Jesus. I have never seen so many books, conferences, and web sites resourcing church planters. We tell our planters, if you want to grow something to last a season, plant flowers. If you want to grow something to last a lifetime, plant trees. But if you want to grow something to last eternally, plant churches. We need to keep planting because the harvest is coming.  Start here. Start Now.”

EFCA Start Churches

Start Churches serves as part of the ReachNational ministry arm of the EFCA which has over 1300 churches and nearly 200 church plants.  We serve in the United States where there are 240 million people disconnected from the church.  Healthy churches are the hope of our nation. The most effective way to reach disconnected people is to start new churches.

 
Our Vision

The EFCA's church planting vision is to bring pleasure to God by mobilizing a church planting movement in the United States where every EFCA church will become a reproducing church and no church planter would be left alone.

 
Our Philosophy

We believe it is going to take all kinds of churches to reach all kinds of people.    Therefore, EFCA churches are using a variety of church planting models. 

Pioneer plants
House churches
Partnership model of two smaller parent churches
Church in church
Multisite
Lay team planting
Multiethnic and a variety of other models.

No matter which model is used, the key thing is the church making disciples and reproducing.

 
Our Values

We believe the church is a called out worshipping community on a disciple making mission with a compassion mandate.  Therefore, we intend to start churches that have the following five foundational values. 

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