ACTION ITEM
To find your place in North American missions, visit
namb.net and click on “mobilize me.”
Where you store your stuff is just one of the logistical challenges facing many church planters like, Kevin and Kristi Cabe, in Brooklyn, NY, who moved there from Knoxville, Tenn. Kevin is bivocational, making him what many call an iron man of the Southern Baptist Convention.
you have not received a vision for a ministry, but upon hearing the vision of another leader or believer, you fi nd yourself compelled to join him in that vision.
Calling can come in a variety of
ways, including: • A calling to a people group. It
may be a calling to reach teenag- ers, divorced moms, ethnic group, orphans or senior adults. Often this calling begins with a passion for reaching and ministering to a specifi c group of people, without a clear understanding as to how you are to reach them or where you are to go to reach them. • A calling to a position. You may be called to preach or pas-
tor, others are called to student or worship ministry or some other type of ministry. This calling to a ministry often leads a person to receive formal training in a spe- cifi c ministry area or to pursue a ministry position that fi ts his sense of calling. Often times, this calling may not specifi cally relate to a par- ticular group of people or place. • A calling to a place. Some in- dividuals may sense a calling to go to a certain place—a city, state or nation without a clear understand- ing of what they are supposed to do and whom they are intended to minister to. This calling says, “Here am I, send me” and trusts that God will, in turn, give them a clear vision for what they are to do and whom
they are to reach as they pursue that calling.
Whether you are confi dent or
unsure of your calling to serve with a church plant, it is important to seek out godly counsel from trusted pastors and friends. While affi rmation alone is not enough to determine a calling into church planting, it helps to confi rm that call. Those who know you best may often be the ones who are most able to affi rm whether or not God is calling you to be a part of a church plant.
Warren Mainard is a church planter in Seattle, Wash. Follow Warren on Twitter, @essentialpastor.
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PHOTO COURTESY KEVIN CABE
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