What does a supporting church and a sending church look like? SendNC stands ready to help churches plant churches — everywhere for everyone. Listen to how your church can support and send church planters across North Carolina.


In this episode, SendNC Director Mike Pittman and SendNC Church Planting Strategist Paul Ortiz sit down with Pastor Robert Hefner of Pleasant Garden Baptist Church to discuss how N.C. Baptist churches — regardless of size — can be supporting and sending churches. They discuss why your church should support church planters and how you can become a sending church.

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Podcast Highlights:

  • “We didn’t set out to plant a church or go find a church planter and then start that process. God was kind of writing both those at the same time for what I hope is round one of many next steps in multiplication.” (8:02)
  • “Let’s do it (church planting) because if we wait, we never will because procrastination is human nature.”
  • “We began to support small and that led us to taking more faith steps to ‘ya know what, we can support more and not only can we support, but now we can send.’” (10:44)
  • “I think it’s important as churches, and I would encourage that we be careful not to fall into a maintenance mode and we stay in a mission mode. And, I think church planting allows us to do that.” (18:20)
  • Learn more about becoming a supporting and sending church at SendNC.org or email us today at sendnc@ncbaptist.org. We’d love to connect with you.
  • Click here to learn more and register for our upcoming Sending Church Training Labs.
  • Interested in creating a residency program at your church? Join us Oct 1, 2024 for our new Residency Builder event.