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Osceola, Arkansas the area in which our church ministry planted. The strategies used for planting a church are from various models of church planting by Ed Stetzer. The models that are in connection with church planting are: purpose-driven and seeker/missional approach. Understanding the models offer advantages: [a] provides a perspective of how the spirit work the past to birth churches; [b] the models assist in conceptualizing church-planting theories and the creation of strategies and assembling groups of new believers; [3] provides church planters with points of reference from which they can begin their work. 1 For church planters, a model is a form or expression of the local church that is culturally defined by both the church planter and the people they are serving, in light of the biblical parameters of what constitutes a church. 2 As church planters consider the numerous contemporary and historic models, it is important that they recognize the strengths and limitations of those in their original contexts as well as in the church planters’ present contexts. 3 Effective church planting is work of missionary. Insightful church planters must begin by determining their mission—exploring questions of personal call and conviction—and by learning missions principles and then they seek to understand the culture they have been called to reach. 4 The answer the church planter must seek would be what area I am called to and what to do in the area. The answer might not come quickly but it will be on time. As a church planter it takes prayer, focusing, meditation, dedication and staying in connection with God for his direction. The church planter needs to contextualize the area once God shows you where the planting should be located. The main approach is to be relational with individuals that a church 1 311. 2 J. D. Payne and David J. Hesselgrave, Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction To The Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Palnting (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2009). 311. 3 Ibid., 311. 4 Ed Stetzer and Daniel Im, Planting Missional Churches: Your Guide to Planting Churches That Multiply (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2016).

planter may come in contact within the area. The approach is to form meaningful connections in the area of Osceola which affirmed as one of the valid steps in Ed Stetzer book called Planting Missional Churches. Planter and teams will be forming connections with people and tenants by reaching out to them through networking, meeting, and going house to house handing out fliers and being active in the community. The church planter also working within social groups and joining forces with other church planters reaching out to the people in the area/community to build relationships. For us to become prosperous in the Osceola, the church planter will have to become bi- vocational (meaning the pastor will not be able to receive a monetary salary starting out). The area is a low-income based housing (people are on fixed income or government assist) we feel this will be best starting out and as time progress the planter will receive a full time salary. And the community will be able to see the planter is not there for money but to be a help, this approach will gain the trust of many people in the area. I know the church planter is ok with being bi-vocational because he knows the area is low-income based and the first church he has planted in Blytheville, Arkansas back in 2006, he did not take a salary for a couple of years. He wanted the ministry to grow and the church bank account to grow before he would receive anything. We have to build a connection and trust, it will be the key to a meaningful relationship in the community. According to Rick Warren, in a small church with limited resources, it is vital that you make the most of what you have gotten and focus your resources on reaching people in your community can best communicated with. 5 After the connection has been made with the 5 Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising your Message and Mission (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publisher, 1995). 159.

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