CHURCH PLANTING NETWORK
Learning about the mutual dependence of believers to support and encourage one another in fulfilling the Great Commission by sharing and utilizing the God given experiences and gifts of each member/church.
Why join the network?
We invite you to learn more about the DRN Church Planting Network through our 9 week leadership development session! Here you will get handles on how to be a missionary in rural and small towns, while creating deep connections with others just like yourself . We desire to create a network of congregations encouraged, prepared, and equipped to be sending communities.
Reaching the lost by Connecting and Equipping rural and small-town congregations to plant new churches.
Our desire is to see hundreds of churches planted in small communities so that every community in America has a life-giving, Bible-believing, community-transforming church.
Missionaries need someone to come along with them as they seek to develop their call to rural or small town mission fields.
Sending Church Support
Some church plants grow out of established “mother” churches that are empowered by Holy Spirit to grow the Kingdom through multiplication. These churches have a desire to impact a rural community and have the means to financially support a church plant.
Dirt Roads Networks desires to support these plants through coaching and congregation training to understand rural-specific challenges.
What do you get from the Church Planting Network Resources?
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Our cooperative will train you how to implement our lessons with your congregational leadership. These 9 lessons were created to develop a network mentality to support a missionary in another rural or small town.
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The challenges church planters face need a community of believers to support, pray, encourage, and mentor them through the journey. During the cooperative we will discuss how networks will serve to bring vitality and mentorship through their network partnership.
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Ministry can be very lonely. Over time the Church Planting Network will become like family. We seek to develop deep, meaningful, relationships where disciples encourage disciples.
Church Planting Networks
When people think of rural places, they may visualize natural beauty: green rolling hills, farmlands, lakes, rivers, and forests. This imagery is accurate in most places, but living in these places, we learn there’s a much darker reality: broken families, substance abuse, generational poverty, and hopelessness abound.
We understand that at times, there may be a disconnect with church multiplication. The desire for church multiplication exists, but the training, resources and process is unclear. It is our goal to bridge the gap between the desire to multiply, and the action steps of making it happen.
Riley, Kansas
Dirt Roads Network is partnering with the KDWC and several other churches to plant a church in Riley, KS.
Northern Michigan
Dirt Roads Network is forming a CPN to support church plants in Cadillac and Alpena.
Current Church Plant Initiatives
Riley, Kansas
“We need a new church in Riley.” Those words were said to Brian Smith, Lead Pastor of Westview Community Church, in a hearse a few years ago. He had just conducted a funeral and was riding to the cemetery with the Riley funeral home director. He explained that families had to drive 20 miles to Manhattan if they wanted a church with children’s and youth ministries. As someone who cares deeply for his community, he believed a new church would make an eternal difference.
God nudged Brian with that conversation and over the last two years several of us have been praying about the possibility of planting a church there.
As we have prayed, God has been moving. Several connections have been made and a potential core team is developing. God has also brought several churches together along with Dirt Roads Network to form a Church Planting Network. These churches and leaders believe God is starting something new for the little town of Riley, and we are excited to be a part of it.
Cadillac, MI
Lance and Miranda Kotrch along with their three boys, Jackson, Jared and Joseph are partnering with Dirt Roads Network and the surrounding network churches to plant in Cadillac, Michigan. Lance and Miranda are natives of Michigan, and have spent the last five years in Iowa. They are excited to be back in their home state to see where God leads them in Church multiplication to this community.
Alpena, MI
Brendan and Heather Maroney were born and raised in Alpena, Michigan. They have four children, Alivia, Kiara, Kenzie, and Malachi. Brendan and Heather’s heartbeat and passion for their community runs deep. With years of ministering to the recovery community, Brendan and Heather have a passion for the lost, hurting and broken.