The Role of Community Development in Church Planting

Community development provides a platform for entering villages, while providing a means of building relationships with community leaders. As the leaders learn how to prioritize community challenges and come up with a plan for solving challenges with resources already at their disposal, opportunities to share and discuss Bible stories will also take place. As Bible story-tellers are identified they can be trained to not only establish a church in the community but also identify surrounding villages where they can replicate both community development and church planting. This approach will plant churches that plant churches which is the DNA of church planting movements. Blending community development with church planting reaches out to the whole person as Jesus did. He fed the 5000 and then taught on the bread of life.