Would you like to be involved in getting a church or churches started in your area? Would you like to help your church with its multiplication strategy? Here’s a pathway for you to serve in Church Planting:
Barnabas Teams
Local churches, local associations and the state convention work in cooperation to plant churches throughout our state. Along with these partners, it takes qualified church planters, worship leaders, discipleship leaders and many committed volunteers to launch a new church. One pathway for lay leaders to participate in church planting is by serving on a Barnabas Team. Barnabas was a Jewish Levite who encouraged Paul and was a catalyst for church planting and church growth (Acts 11:25). It’s our desire to create a statewide network of encouragers & catalysts for church planting in Louisiana.
There are two types of Barnabas teams needed:
- Associational Barnabas Team (ABT)
- Local Church Barnabas Team (LCBT)
The purpose of this document is to provide background information and a job description for LCBT members.
Associational Church Planting Strategy (ACPS)
The ACPS developed and adopted by the association, sets a goal for the number of new church plants in the next ten years based on research of population and population projections. The ten-year goal will inform the association’s work in each one-three year window (see 10-3-1 church planting process).
What is a Local Church Barnabas Team (LCBT)?
An LCBT is a group of volunteers that work alongside a church planter in a specific area to evangelize people who will become a part of the core group of the new church plant or new campus. The intent of the LCBT is to give strength, depth, experience and workers to all new church plants.
The local sponsoring church will oversee the selection and orientation of members.
A trained evangelism volunteer will lead the LCBT.
The LCBT will consist of members from the sponsoring church, partner churches, the new church plant and other members of the association.
The state convention will provide training for new LCBTs.
