While it’s true that we’re best known for starting New Christian Reformed Churches, we really don’t start churches at all—you do, and we’re here to help. New churches that grow the fastest and continue to thrive year after year are those that are born out of a collaboration of local, regional, and international partners. Experience has taught us that an alliance—centered in an existing congregation, supported by other churches in the classis or region, coached, trained, and mentored by Home Missions—is the right team to start new churches. Seventy-five new Christian Reformed Churches currently receive financial assistance from Home Missions through these partnerships with twenty more in the early planning stages.

Home Missions helps parenting churches and classes to start as many as up to 20 new churches annually in locations throughout Canada and the United States. These new church plants range from urban to suburban, and from majority culture to various ethnic language churches. Residency, coaching, Bootcamp, and orientation are also offered to new church planters.

Home Missions assists the parenting of new churches through consultation processes designed to ensure the health of the parent church as well as to assist in the decision to parent through the use of videos, a pamphlet, a booklet, an audio/video kit, and financial grants.

New-church parenting involves a variety of roles and expectations. On a continuum ranging from limited to full involvement, parenting takes on some form or adaptation of foster parenting, adoptive parenting, and natural parenting. Further descriptions of these types of parenting are available on request.

For more information, contact missionfocusedchurches@crcna.org 800-266-2175 or Christian Reformed Home Missions 800-266-2175 US, 800-263-4252 Canada.