As catalysts for church planting in major urban cities in Mexico, we identify potential key planters, enable them to form teams, and provide needed resources to plant churches in their own area and context.
Our ultimate hope for Mexico is to see it no longer be a mission field at all. All of our church planting efforts are aimed squarely at local empowerment so that Mexico’s churches might become more and more vibrant, mature, and strong.
John 4:35-38, in essence, says, we have been sent to harvest what others have planted. The IMPACTOnetwork, is a reflection of what Jesus says in that passage. Many missionaries have invested their lives and resources for more than a century and have prepared the fields for the harvest. Today, a new generation is being raised up and is willing to spend their lives to serve the kingdom.
They are willing to do what they have seen others do and what they have learned. They are willing to harvest the ripe fields. IMPACTO Latino, through the IMPACTOnetwork, will recruit, train, form teams, provide needed resources, and coach new church plant teams, based on the principles of the successful churches already planted. The goal is to multiply the efforts of what has been done by recruiting, training, and sending teams of individuals to start new urban churches in Mexico.
Our goal is to provide the new church plant with the following resources, helping them to overcome these challenges:
Our ultimate hope for Mexico is to see it no longer be a mission field at all. All of our church planting efforts are aimed squarely at local empowerment so that Mexico’s churches might become more and more vibrant, mature, and strong.
John 4:35-38, in essence, says, we have been sent to harvest what others have planted. The IMPACTOnetwork, is a reflection of what Jesus says in that passage. Many missionaries have invested their lives and resources for more than a century and have prepared the fields for the harvest. Today, a new generation is being raised up and is willing to spend their lives to serve the kingdom.
They are willing to do what they have seen others do and what they have learned. They are willing to harvest the ripe fields. IMPACTO Latino, through the IMPACTOnetwork, will recruit, train, form teams, provide needed resources, and coach new church plant teams, based on the principles of the successful churches already planted. The goal is to multiply the efforts of what has been done by recruiting, training, and sending teams of individuals to start new urban churches in Mexico.
Our goal is to provide the new church plant with the following resources, helping them to overcome these challenges:
- Recruiting and team formation
- Training in several areas of church planting
- Funding new church plants
- Coaching, accountability, and counseling
- Networking and movement making
We prepare the leaders that are being raised up
by our LORD for Kingdom service.
by our LORD for Kingdom service.
THE STRATEGY
To plant new, dynamic, self-sustaining, and passionate urban churches around Mexico. The main focus is to identify potential key church planters, enable them to form a team, and provide needed resources to plant churches in their own area and context. We believe church planting is the best way to evangelize, disciple, and provide pastoral care to new believers.
RECRUITINGWe believe and value the team approach to church planting. Our efforts are focused on helping church planters form healthy teams. The church plant will become more effective, fruitful, more enjoyable and less of a burden, by working as a team, instead of the responsibility falling on a single family or individual.
We endeavor to see that each team includes the church planter (lead pastor), a missionary or missionaries, interns, and national residents. All of them bring to the table their own gifts and talents to provide the new church plant a combination of skills that reach more people for Christ, make disciples and build a mature church body. We also form prayer teams (Mexican and international) that commit to pray for these new churches. |
TRAININGIMPACTO Latino’s network provides vision and direction for new churches in strategic urban areas of Mexico. We emphasize the contextualization of each new church to its specific urban setting.
Training is a very important part of what the IMPACTOnetwork has to offer new church planting teams. This training consists of the basic adaptable principles which will prepare them to flourish and thrive in their given context. The IMPACTOnetwork will provide direction and vision for the long run, based on the 6 principles of IMPACTO Latino's church plants.
We understand that every church is and will be unique and that something that works in a specific setting may not work in a different one—even if the church plants are in the same city. |
FUNDINGBy partnering with sponsoring churches in the United States and Mexico, we intend to provide the financial funding needed to start new church plants based in the context of the church planter and his community.
Financial funding can include, but will be not limited to, providing a salary for the first 3 to 5 years for the church planter, paying rent and utilities of facilities and provide scholarships to residents participating in that specific church plant. Funding will be provided for the first years of the church plant. Additional funding after the first 3 to 5 years will be on an as-needed basis—meaning that, as the new church plant is able to cover more of their own expenses, the funding provided by IMPACTOnetwork will decrease accordingly. Funding will be evaluated and set each year during the annual planning meeting, based on budget for the following year. Funding will be provided in several ways to the church planting team. We will provide for set-up costs as well as sustaining church needs throughout the year. |
COACHINGThe IMPACTOnetwork provides ongoing coaching to ensure the teams are on the right track, to make sure team relationships are healthy, and their efforts will be fruitful. We provide an open environment outside of their local team. We greatly value ongoing discipleship, training and counseling. We provide this by implementing a coaching system to help the church planting team: • Set personal and ministerial goals • Evaluate and track goals • Talk freely about personal and team issues • Have a sense of accountability and personal responsibility • Have someone trustworthy to talk to In new churches there can be a lack of accountability since there is often no board of elders to whom the pastor and staff are accountable, creating a large potential for abuse. We provide a system whereby every church planter is accountable to their coach—at least at the beginning stage and until an effective eldership is in place. |
NETWORKINGA network of churches impacts not only their own cities and communities, but the whole country. We intentionally and pro-actively network these new congregations in the IMPACTOnetwork by...
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The church is where new believers are
equipped to fulfill the great commission.
PARTNERSHIPS |
The IMPACTOnetwork has developed a wide range of partners that will be part of the assessment, training and deployment of the church planting teams:
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IN THE UNITED STATES:
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God is calling! How will you respond?
PRAYfor this ministry and the new church planters that are raised up for kingdom work in Latin America.
Our ministry depends on partnership with churches and individuals in the United States and around the world. We regularly ask for prayer and send prayer updates to hundreds of committed prayer partners. |
INVESTin a new church plant financially.
Every dollar counts in the effort to reach the people of Latin America for Christ. Please consider partnering with us to be an important part of reaching the people of Mexico for Christ by planting MULTIPLYING churches. |
SERVEalong side us on the field by doing an internship, organizing a work group from your church, providing your professional skills or even by moving to Mexico or any other Latin American country to serve as one of our missionaries.
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