Converge church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee discuss Converge’s five-year church planting goal and how your church can participate in Church Planting Weekend.

0:18 Lee talks about Converge’s goal of planting 312 churches in five years.

1:20 Lee discusses how Converge came up with the number 312.

2:21 Danny asks Lee if they considered changing the goal because of the pandemic.

3:12 Lee says there are more people in the church planting pipeline than any other time in his history with Converge.

3:55 Lee talks about the concept behind Church Planting Weekend.

4:35 “If we could get a third of our churches playing the game and getting involved at some level, praying, raising up people from within to go out and plant a church, we easily reach our number [of 312 new churches].”

5:20 We want every Converge church across our movement to set aside time on the first Sunday of June, or sometime between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, to have this conversation.

6:07 Lee says, “I believe that a lot of our churches, they have at least one person in their church that maybe God has called and even anointed to plant a church.”

6:50 Lee talks about the resources Converge is providing churches for Church Planting Weekend.

7:59 Lee says, “The goal is to make it as easy as possible for anybody to have this conversation.”

8:04 Lee gives some ideas of what churches can do for Church Planting Weekend.

9:22 Lee says, “If the majority of our churches engage in this conversation, I think it could be overwhelming of what we would see God do.”