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Don Bryan
Executive Director |
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Mission USA consists of the
Ethnic
Ministries and Church
Planting Initiatives.
Ethnic Ministries
We must never forget that the great harvest of Rev.
5:9 includes believers from every kindred, tongue, people,
and nation. We no longer need to travel around the world to minister to other ethnic groups. The uttermost parts of the
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Church Planting
The nations have indeed come to our doorstep – and they are planting churches! As immigrants come to our shores they want to worship in their own language and culture. More than half the Open Bible churches planted in the past nine years were ethnic. Several of these churches parented other ethnic churches. One recent church plant is Primera Iglesia Hispana de la Biblia Abierta, in Punta Gorda, Florida, pastored by Armando Dominguez and parented by First Spanish Church of the Open Bible in Hialeah, Florida, pastored by Ralph Cajigas. Open Bible statistics show that a “mother church daughtering a plant” produces the healthiest churches.
CHURCH PLANTING REPORT
New Church Plants and Church Plant Closures
January 1, 2000 – December 31, 2008 (9 years)
Region
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Opened |
Closed |
Gain |
Central |
23 |
7 |
16 |
Eastern |
10 |
2 |
8 |
Mountain Plain |
15 |
9 |
6 |
Pacific |
34 |
12 |
22 |
Southeast |
11 |
2 |
9 |
Total |
93 |
32 |
61 |
ETHNIC & MULTICULTURAL*
Region
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Opened |
Closed |
Gain |
| Central |
14 |
2 |
12 |
Eastern |
4 |
2 |
2 |
Mountain Plains |
4 |
1 |
3 |
Pacific |
11 |
2 |
9 |
Southeast |
10 |
2 |
8 |
Total |
43 |
9 |
34 |
*Included in the totals above
- Net gain after 9 years: 66.5%
- Average # of church plants annually: 10.3
- Average gain annually: 6.7
- Ethnic/multicultural gain: 55.7% of total
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