Young Pastor leads Church Toward Cooperative Vision
OIL CITY – In the last two years, Pastor Chad Mills has led First Baptist Oil City to double its Cooperative Program giving, increase its outreach into the community, and become a more mission-minded church. And the congregation has responded wholeheartedly.
From a Sunday school class raising its own money to help do community projects to the enthusiastic support of foreign missionaries and planting of new churches, Oil City has become a “shining beacon of light.” Read More...
EKG Study: Churches See Measurable Gains
When the Louisiana Baptist Convention launched its Empowering Kingdom Growth initiative in 2006 with 65 pilot churches, the hope was for churches to experience the benefits of a strategic church health process.
Now in its fourth year, 249 churches or 18 percent of LBC congregations have completed at least one phase of the EKG-LA initiative. Read More...
Simply stated, EKG-Louisiana is a call for Louisiana Baptist churches
To renew their passion for Jesus and His Kingdom
To develop an intentional global mission strategy
To mobilize resources for kingdom purposes
Church leaders learn to implement a Biblical vision.
Church members are motivated to join pastoral leadership with intentional ministry through the local church and with associational, state and national ministry partners.
With a renewed godly passion for the lost, per capita giving to and through the local church increases.
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| We invite any Louisiana Baptist church who wants to develop a passionate heart to change the world to participate in EKG-Louisiana. |
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- A church's pastoral leadership commits to the training seminar and the process of completing all three phases in a 12 month period.
- A church is willing to make available the recommended resources for each phase.
- A church's members are encouraged to pray for the pastor and the church leaders through each EKG phase.
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Phase 1
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A Kingdom Heart-Passionate Obedience to Christ's Commands (January-February)
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Phase 2
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A Kingdom Strategy-Engaged in Meaningful Plans to Change the World (March-May)
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Phase 3
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A Kingdom Commitment-Mobilizing resources for kingdom purposes (August-November)
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- Pastors/staff and lay leaders will be trained in associational and area workshops.
- Resources are readily available for each phase. --EKL-LA Materials Order Form
- Consultants will be available to assist.
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that God continues to work, the goal of EKG-Louisiana is to place a heart for the Kingdom into the DNA of the local church and eventually the entire state convention. (Matt. 6:33)
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that EKG-Louisiana dispels negative attitudes and renews a missionary zeal in members of Louisiana churches.
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God to do a powerful work through the resources He entrusts to Louisiana Baptist churches, the state convention, and our national partners.
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