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Justyn Terry, Dean and President, of Trinity School for Ministry, is doing a fantastic job! Recently, he was at Christ Church Plano (where I serve) as a guest preacher. He delivered a fantastic evangelistic sermon that God used mightily in the lives of many. People came forward for prayer - including some who came forward to receive Christ for the first time! I also had the opportunity to spend time with Justyn talking about church planting and how Trinity is intentionally raising up planters. He showed me the recent graduating class and pointed out graduate after graduate who is leaving Trinity (some two by two) to raise up a new congregation! I have asked him to provide a guest post for us about all the work going on at Trinity. Enjoy! ~ Daniel Adkinson
Training Church Planters at Trinity School for Ministry
By: Justyn Terry
Training church planters has become one of the primary occupations of Trinity School for Ministry. We have just sent off two church planters to Troy, NY, two to San Antonio, TX, one to St Louis, MO, another is about to go to Virginia, and so the list goes on.
Many graduates who are not currently planting have that in mind for the near future and most of our residential students are considering planting when they graduate. Church planting is in our blood. I was delighted to hear a Bishop say recently, ‘I know that if I drop off a Trinity grad in a cornfield, I’ll have a congregation there within two years’. We love that reputation.
Trinity is committed to training both lay and ordained leaders for church planting in a variety of different venues. Our motto is, ‘Don’t cut the training down – but by all means spread it out.’ There is the MA in Mission (Church Planting Track) for lay leaders and those seeking ordination, which can be completed on-line and in intensives without relocating to Pittsburgh. There are also the MDiv (Church Planting Track) and DMin (Church Planting Track) for clergy. We have just started a bi-annual Church Planting Roundtable, the first of which was held this June and was a great success, bringing together many of the leading Anglican church planters in North America and nearly one hundred of those who are – or soon will be – planting churches.
The first Dean/President of the School was a missionary church planter and we remain missionary church planters to this day. Nine of the eleven full-time teaching faculty have been involved with church planting or restarts. We love both the theory and the practice of church planting and want to do all we can to train and resource those planting churches. To find out more, go to our website.
Posted on July 2, 2010
Love the enthusiasm, Ed+!
Posted by Daniel Adkinson on 08-12-2010 at 12:44 PM
Let’s get out on the streets, door-to-door, in the parks, on the beaches, on the campuses, in the nursing homes, in the projects, amongst the homeless and share the good news of the Gospel. The church plants will follow like the grass that needs constant mowing in the spring. If we seek the security of the office and the church building, the chances of our church growing descends to the same odds of LeBron-less Cleveland Cavs winning the NBA title. If we get out there where the people are, we will prove that Bob Pittsburgh had too little faith; he should’ve said 2,000 churches! Go Steelers!
Fr. Dr.ed Lowe
Posted by FrDrEd on 07-09-2010 at 03:46 PM