The Gathering Network

Welcome to The Gathering Network!

We are pastors, church planters, and other Christian leaders committed to seeing the gospel spread by starting, strengthening, and multiplying churches. Whether you are leading a church, actively supporting the leaders of your church, or just beginning to explore ministry, we want to come alongside you with encouragement, resources, and training.

Our Vision

We exist to start, strengthen, and multiply churches by building up the body of Christ in four key areas: in homes, in cities, in regions, and throughout the world. The apostles strategically utilized those categories of “the church” to advance the gospel in the world, and we believe those categories are equally relevant today.

Our Mission

Jesus gave us one mission: to make disciples of all nations (Matt. 28:18–20; Acts 1:8). We pursue this through:

• Weekly gatherings of the church for teaching, prayer, and singing (Acts 2:42–47; Heb. 10:19–25).

• Training men and women to evangelize non-Christians and disciple believers in their personal networks—family, friends, and neighbors.

Our Focus

• Resources – Print-friendly tools to help you evangelize, disciple, and train leaders.

• Training – Weekly gatherings to equip and encourage leaders.

Get Connected

This website is designed to serve you—whether you’re looking for fresh tools, encouragement in your ministry, or a network of like-minded leaders. Contact us for more information. We’d love to hear from you. Ask a question, start a conversation, or explore joining the network.

On the home page, you will find information about:

Our Approach to Ministry

• Vision: Starting, Strengthening, & Multiplying Churches

• Mission: Make Disciples of All Nations

• Values and Purposes

• Strategy: The Apostolic Cycle

• Implementation: Evangelism, Discipleship, and Leadership Development

• Gathering in Homes: The Weekly Assembly of the Church

• Apostolic Alignment: Our Underlying Goal

• Core Concepts: Our Unifying Vocabulary

Our Leadership Development Process

• The Path of Church Leaders

Our Training Resources

• Evangelism Training

• Discipleship Training

• Leadership Training

Supporting Documents

• The Message: The Apostles’ Proclamation to Non-Christians

• Sound Doctrine: The Apostles’ Teaching for Christians

• Statement of Faith: The Baptist Faith and Message

• The Kingdom of God (to be developed)

• The Gospel: The Good News of Jesus’s Death and Resurrection

• Baptism: Death, Burial, and Resurrection with Christ

• The Lord’s Supper: Remembering, Celebrating, and Proclaiming Jesus’s Death

• Elders (to be developed)

• Men and Women: Together in Ministry (to be developed)

• Church-based Evangelism (to be developed)

• Church-based Discipleship (to be developed)

• Church-based Counseling (to be developed)

• Church-based Leadership

• Church-based Leadership Development (to be developed)

• Church-based Church Planting (to be developed)

• The Word in Community (to be developed)

• Prayer in Community (to be developed)

To that end, we are developing “Questions for Reflection and Discussion” questions for many of the web pages to stimulate dialogue.

We would be delighted to partner with you in the advancement of the gospel—the good news that Jesus died and God raised him from the dead to save sinners. In obedience to Jesus’s Great Commission, that is the central message we must take to our neighborhoods and to the nations.