{"id":8465,"date":"2003-12-15T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T03:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:28:11","slug":"3400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2003\/12\/15\/3400\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Focuses on What Works in Church Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAK LAWN, IL (December 15) \u2013 &#8220;What&#8217;s working in church planting&#8221; was a\u00a0 key topic of discussion last week as 10 pastors met with Don Davenport,\u00a0 associate director of church planting and development for the\u00a0 Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) as part of a peer mentoring summit for\u00a0 African-American church planters.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>The two-day event, held at the Oak Lawn Holiday Inn and facilitated in\u00a0 cooperation with the Department of Church Growth and Evangelism,\u00a0 included pastors from six conferences who are less than two years into\u00a0 the church planting process. They are:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/uploads\/pw\/Yi\/pwYirwq2ryFuYjcBG3HteQ\/0648.jpg\" alt=\"Summit participants\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conway Boyce of Brooklyn Covenant Ministries in Brooklyn, New York<\/li>\n<li>Harvey Carey of Citadel of Faith Covenant Church in Detroit, Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Davenport of New Beginning Covenant Church in Lansing, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>James Gibson of Destiny Covenant Church in Detroit, Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Gilliard of Commissioned Disciples Covenant Church in\u00a0 Tucker, Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Phil Jackson of The House Covenant Church in Chicago, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Camille Russell-Wooden of Abundant Life Covenant Church in Pasadena,\u00a0 California<\/li>\n<li>Efrem Smith of Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>George Wilson of Friends4Life Covenant Church in Flossmoor, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Terry Woodson of Bethel Bible Fellowship Covenant Church in\u00a0 Carollton, Texas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Gary Walter, executive minister of Church Growth and Evangelism, and\u00a0 Dave Olsen, director of church planting, also represented the department\u00a0 along with Davenport. Discussion group topics included &#8220;What has\u00a0 surprised you about church planting?&#8221;, &#8220;What&#8217;s working?&#8221; and &#8220;What is\u00a0 not working?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>The represented churches are in various stages of development &#8211; some\u00a0 have already hosted grand opening services, some have been ministering\u00a0 as a church for more than a year and others are in the Bible study\/core\u00a0 group development stage.<\/p>\n<div>Carey, who was an associate pastor for a Chicago African-American\u00a0 megachurch, has hosted Bible studies for more than 100 individuals\u00a0 during his early months of ministry with his church in Detroit.\u00a0 Russell-Wooden&#8217;s church began weekly services on October 5. Smith, a\u00a0 noted speaker for a nationally known parachurch youth ministry before\u00a0 becoming a church planter, has received help from both Covenant and\u00a0 non-Covenant congregations in starting a multiethnic church that has\u00a0 attracted more than 400 people in Sunday worship. Meanwhile, Wilson has\u00a0 ministered in the suburbs using a building that once belonged to an\u00a0 Anglo Covenant congregation on Chicago&#8217;s south side.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It was exciting to hear about the wide span of ministry emphases of\u00a0 these churches that will join the Covenant family over the next few\u00a0 years,&#8221; said Gilliard, whose church is located near Atlanta. &#8220;The range\u00a0 of emphases goes from providing hip-hop culture in worship to meeting\u00a0 the challenges of planting multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-racial\u00a0 ministries. Some are focused on drawing the emerging generation and are\u00a0 developing intergenerational ministries and others are focused on\u00a0 ministry to young adults on college campuses. Others shared about their\u00a0 emphasis on identifying and mentoring young African American emerging\u00a0 leaders.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;As varied as each call to ministry was, there was a unifying focus on\u00a0 leadership training\/development and discipleship,&#8221; Gilliard continued.\u00a0 &#8220;Each pastor learned from each other as ideas were shared on how to\u00a0 teach spiritual disciplines that produce disciples who are mature in\u00a0 their faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>For more information on the peer summit, call Davenport at 773-907-3353\u00a0 or 773-209-3735.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Copyright \u00a9 2011 The Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=8465&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAK LAWN, IL (December 15) \u2013 &#8220;What&#8217;s working in church planting&#8221; was a\u00a0 key topic of discussion last week as 10 pastors met with Don Davenport,\u00a0 associate director of church planting and development for the\u00a0 Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) as part of a peer mentoring summit for\u00a0 African-American church planters. 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