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We provide a clear pathway for you to plant a new church. Each step has been strategically designed to improve your success so more people will have the opportunity to accept Jesus.

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Church Planting 101: Assessment Center

Helping you discern your calling, ministry fit and leadership capacity as a church planter.

Church Planting Weekend

Church Planting Weekend is an opportunity for you to share your vision for multiplying new churches and celebrate your partnership with Converge PacWest. On this special weekend, you can join hundreds of churches in praying and raising resources for district church planting.

312 Church Planting Initiative

Our communities need more gospel-centered, community-reaching, Bible-preaching, multiplication-minded churches. Converge’s 10 districts have committed to deploying 312 church planters before 2026. If each of those church planters starts a congregation that grows to just 200 people, they will impact at least 62,000 people with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Church Planting & Multiplication

From violence to victory: former gang member shifts to gospel ministry

A farmer who saved a blustering, bellowing cow from death in an Iowa barn reminded Ray his life didn’t equal a full-stop failure. Drug dealing sent Ray’s parents to prison when the California boy was six or seven. Within a decade, he was in a gang with his uncles and cousins. They carried guns, sold […]

Church Planting & Multiplication

God turns Converge PacWest’s five-year goal into a three-year accomplishment

Two colossal challenges collided in late 2019 when Chris Lovelace became Converge PacWest’s church planting director. First, he and fellow leaders agreed to trust God for 25 new planters in northern California, northern Nevada and Hawaii by 2026. The collision came just a few months later: COVID-19 unleashed a prolonged, erratic disruption of work, life […]

Evangelism & Discipleship International Ministries

Satan’s worst nightmare

Elizabeth and William Nicoleti didn’t need a thermometer last month to realize the building where Aviva Igreja Cristã worships was warmer than expected. A church member who climbed atop the roof discovered the why behind the warmth: someone had stolen copper wires that supply power to the air conditioner. Then the disciple found a black […]

Church Planting & Multiplication

“I never thought it would be us”

Rodel Balingit didn’t feel too excited when he visited a Bible study in the early days of Forever Community Church. It was Mother’s Day 2021, Benjamin and Hilda Padua explained, when Rodel and his wife, Maryanne, came. She wanted him to go to the Bible study as part of the special day for moms. Then […]

Church Planting & Multiplication

California church offers rest to road-weary commuters

Brentwood is a place to live. But the California city isn’t exactly a place for life. People struggle to find jobs in Brentwood or neighboring Antioch. So, they work closer to San Francisco. Brentwood empties out around 5 a.m. every day as people make the long commute to work. Those same workers don’t get home […]

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