Church Planting Conference in November
What if every classis raised up leaders and planted churches? That’s the idea behind Multiply Conference 2025, a church planting vision event to be held in Port St. Lucie, Fla., Nov. 9-11, 2025.
The conference is a partnership between Classis Southeast U.S. (a regional grouping of CRC congregations) and Resonate Global Mission, and it follows from a robust conversation at Synod 2025 about the importance of church planting for the future of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.
At the time, synod encouraged all congregations to connect with Resonate in order to build support for church planting and ensure that existing church planters have the support they need. Synod also encouraged classes to develop a church-planting strategy or to strengthen their existing strategy through partnership with Resonate.
In addition, the delegates instructed Zach King, general secretary, to coordinate with agencies and classes to develop a vision, plan, strategy, and financial proposal for church planting for the CRCNA to be presented at Synod 2026.
“Multiply Conference 2025 is a direct follow-up to Synod 2025 and the mandate given to develop a 10-year strategic plan for church planting,” said Tim Sheridan, church planting leader for Resonate Global Mission. “The event seeks to build momentum and ‘buy-in’ from as many classes as possible to collaborate toward this plan.”
The Multiply Conference website explains that the event will provide an “opportunity to dream, collaborate, and commit to a new era of multiplication.”
To do this, pastors, elders, and emerging church leaders from across the CRCNA will get together for two days to discuss big ideas, elevate the topic of church planting and missions, generate “buy-in” and excitement, and cast a compelling vision for the future.
“We are hoping that every classis will invite at least three or four representatives to attend,” said Sheridan. “Among our desired outcomes are a renewed and unified commitment to church planting across the denomination, stronger collaboration between classes and agencies, and the identification of next steps that will support church planting.”
The event will be held at Sunlight Community Church in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The registration fee is $150 per person and will be covered by participants or their sending classis. An additional preconference event on Nov. 8 is available for $50 more and will include practical steps for discipling and multiplying believers.
“We truly hope that classes will prayerfully consider attending this event,” said Sheridan. “We expect to share and hear stories of what God is already doing, inspire imagination for the future as we discuss challenges and opportunities, and build denomination-wide commitment to church planting through strategic conversations.”
To learn more or to register, visit conference.multiply222.com.
