Help Us Plant the Next GLC Covenant Church – Fall 2020 Update

Church planting has proven to be one of the most effective ways to reach people who do not yet know Jesus. New churches bring both hope and help to inner-city, metro urban, suburban, and rural communities, and the Great Lakes Conference is committed to planting churches where God leads us when He provides the resources to do so.

To that end, we are asking churches and individuals throughout the Great Lakes Conference to help us plant the next four churches. Because we invest an average of $75,000 in each new church plant, we are seeking to raise $300,000. Thanks to a generous Matching Grant of $150,000, every contribution we receive from churches or individuals for church planting (up to a total of $150,000) is being matched by our donor. So far we have received $32,581 from churches and $39,409 from individuals for a total of $71,990. With these funds we planted LifeChurch – Riverside in April, and we are almost ready to plant our next church (probably in Youngstown, OH).

Although the pace of church planting has slowed due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, it hasn’t stopped. God still wants hurting people helped and lost people found. We currently have several prospective church planters developing core groups in Michigan and Ohio, and we would love to be prepared to plant those churches when God opens the door for us to do so.

If you would like to contribute to the Church Planting Capital Campaign through Mission Friends for Church Planting, please Click Here.

If you have questions about our Church Planting Initiative, please contact Alan Tumpkin, Director of Church Planting at 248-943-3345, or Garth McGrath, Superintendent at 248-821-6956.

Please Click Here to donate through the ECC Online Giving Portal.

You will see two options:

1.  Donate to the Great Lakes Conference (GLC). This option allows you to make a one-time or recurring donation to the GLC, which you may choose to direct to specific areas within the mission of the Great Lakes Conference.
2.  Give specifically to Church Planting in the GLC.

For more fundraising resources and bios of our prospective Church Planters, visit our Church Planting Initiative page.