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Multiplication: Make Disciples and Multiply Churches
Currently, 42% of the world’s population is considered unreached by the Gospel of Jesus. Our vision is for everyone in our church to be growing spiritually, actively making disciples, and planting churches together. As we multiply disciple-makers and plant disciple-making churches, we create greater opportunities to reach the world with the Gospel.
Within the next 2-5 years, by God’s grace and in His power, we intend to accomplish the following locally and globally:
Solidify our current Grace campuses (Anderson, Southwood, Creekside, Midtown) as disciple-making, church-planting churches.
Fully launch Grace Midtown campus in Bryan; align each campus with local community partners to meet pressing spiritual and material needs in Bryan-College Station, and explore opportunities to plant new campuses in underserved areas of our community and/or partner with others doing the same.
Plant two churches in strategic U.S. cities near a university; establish strategic, long-term, international ministry partnerships for each campus; provide each campus with a set of short-term outreach opportunities that are consistent with our mission, vision, and values.
Whereas our first two pillars are theological in nature, our second two pillars are strategic in nature. Building our ministries around these second two pillars enables us to most effectively fulfill our vision based on our unique ministry context.
Our organizational chart provides a visual explanation of how we have aligned our staff teams to fulfill our mission to make disciples and multiply churches.
Grace’s decision to pursue a multi-site strategy originated with a single question: How do we, as a local church, effectively expand our capacity to share the gospel and make disciples?
In 2007 a decision was required by our leadership as we had surpassed the capacity of our single campus. There are several ways for a church to address overcrowding: build a bigger building, add more services, plant new churches, open more sites, etc. ****The leadership of Grace Bible Church chose to pursue a multi-site strategy as the best hope for expanding leadership development, increasing congregational engagement, and extending the reach of our church into multiple areas of our community through unique campus identities that would resonate with unique constituencies!
This infographic provides a timeline as to how the Lord has worked through this multi-site strategy within the last 15 years especially.
Long-Range Preaching Philosophy
Roles of Men & Women in Ministry