Boiler Plate Language
- Acts 29 is a global network for churches serious about planting healthy, multiplying churches. There’s an African proverb that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” The Acts 29 global community knows we can best bring the gospel to the ends of the earth when we do it in partnership with churches who share our passion for making disciples of all nations. Our efforts are multiplied and our God is glorified when we work together to advance his kingdom on earth.
- We’re made up of nearly 700 partner churches (and counting!) in more than 50 countries. On any given Sunday, our partners are worshiping in nearly 30 languages!
- We recruit, train, assess, and holistically support churches, church leaders, and church planters to plant healthy, multiplying churches. We partner with believers around the world to plant churches in all contexts—suburban, urban, rural, and everything in-between—and in any place where Jesus is neither named nor known.
- We believe the church is God’s primary mission strategy on earth. Therefore, being faithful to the Great Commission’s call to make disciples means being passionate about church planting.
- Local churches stand as a trusted presence in a community, offering hope and help amid trials and tragedies, proclaiming Christ and seeing lives transformed by his gospel and for his glory. As we plant more healthy, multiplying churches, we advance Christ’s kingdom on earth. This is the beauty of church planting.
5 Distinctives of Acts 29:
- 1) We are passionate about gospel centrality. 2) We enthusiastically embrace the sovereignty of God’s grace in saving sinners.
3) We recognize and rest upon the necessity of the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit for all life and ministry.
4) We are deeply committed to the spiritual and moral equality of men and women, and to men as responsible servant-leaders in both home and church.
5) We embrace a missionary understanding of the local church and its role as the primary means by which God chooses to establish his kingdom on earth.
Church Website Content
Suggested language churches can use on their church website to share that they are a part of Acts 29 (and why).
- Acts 29 is a diverse, global community of healthy, multiplying churches characterized by theological clarity, cultural engagement, and missional innovation. We’re made up of nearly 700 member churches (and counting!) in more than 50 nations. Acts 29 exists to resource and facilitate church planting around the world.
- Acts 29 is a diverse, global community of healthy, multiplying churches characterized by theological clarity, cultural engagement, and missional innovation. We’re made up of nearly 700 member churches (and counting!) in more than 50 nations. Acts 29 exists to resource and facilitate church planting around the world. Being part of Acts 29 provides (name of church) with access to training, resources, and support as we continue to grow as a church that plants churches.
- Acts 29 is a diverse, global community of healthy, multiplying churches. Standing in the tradition of historic evangelical confessionalism, Acts 29 believes the church is God’s primary mission strategy and single-mindedly exists to resource, facilitate, and support churches, church leaders, and church planters to plant healthy, multiplying churches.
- Acts 29 is a diverse, global community of healthy, multiplying churches. Characterized by theological clarity, cultural engagement, and missional innovation, Acts 29 exists to resource and facilitate churches, church leaders, and church planters around the world to scatter communities of light into darkness by planting healthy churches.
- Acts 29 is a diverse, global community of healthy, multiplying churches characterized by theological clarity, cultural engagement, and missional innovation. Founded in 1998, Acts 29 has now blossomed into a global network spread over 50 nations in more than 30 languages for a total of nearly 700 member churches.
Content for Slides
Suggested content if a church wants to share about Acts 29 on a slide/slideshow during their service.
“About Acts 29” Basic slides
- Acts 29 logo and the following content:
A diverse, global community of healthy, multiplying churches characterized by:
Theological clarity
Cultural engagement
Missional innovation
Acts 29 exists to see Jesus known among the least and the lost, all across the globe, through the planting of gospel-centered churches that plant churches.
- Acts 29 logo and the following content:
Acts 29 is a diverse, global community of healthy, multiplying churches that exists to see Jesus known among the least and the lost, all across the globe, through the planting of gospel-centered churches that plant churches.
Additional slide options
- Title: Acts 29 Supports Churches in Hard Places
Slide content: Acts 29 is passionate about seeing the gospel of Jesus proclaimed all across the globe through the planting of gospel-centered churches, particularly in areas of poverty and isolation. These places have limited or no Christian witness, and ministry is difficult.
Acts 29 trains and supports indigenous church leaders in poor communities, and develops tools and resources to assess and train rural church planters across the world.
The following could be a series of slides in a slideshow:
- Why Does Acts 29 Exist?
We are single-minded about church planting. We exist to encourage, resource, facilitate, support, and equip churches, church leaders, and church planters to plant healthy, multiplying churches!
- Why Does Acts 29 Focus On Planting Churches?
We believe the church is God’s primary mission strategy, and thereby the means by which Jesus is made more famous as communities of light are scattered throughout the world to dispel the darkness.
- What Does Acts 29 Believe?
We are aligned with historic evangelical confessionalism, and hold the following five core values:
– Gospel centrality in all of life
– The sovereignty of God in saving sinners
– The work of the Holy Spirit for life and ministry
– The equality of men and women and the principle of male servant leadership
– The local church as God’s primary mission strategy
Social Media Content
Suggested content to share on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
- Did you know that (name of church) is part of Acts 29? We love being part of this network because we believe that church planting is God’s primary mission strategy.
- Do you want to know why (name of church) is part of Acts 29? Because we want to see the darkest corners of our world filled with gospel-centered communities of light.
- At (name of church), we long to see Jesus known among all nations. That’s why we’re part of Acts 29, a theologically robust global community of healthy, multiplying churches.
- Acts 29 is a global community of healthy, multiplying churches seeking to make Jesus known where he is not; this is why we partner with them to plant more churches.
- By partnering with Acts 29, (church name) can participate in church planting and pastor training all around the world!
- One thing (name of church) loves about being part of Acts 29 is the opportunity for fellowship with other gospel-centered, church-planting churches.
Suggested Tweet series:
- We thought it might be helpful to tell you what (name of church) loves about Acts 29, and why we’re part of this global community of healthy, multiplying churches.
- We love that Acts 29 is biblically solid and single-minded about church planting.
- We love that Acts 29 is a truly diverse, global community of churches that cares about reaching the hard places with the gospel.
- We love that Acts 29 values theological clarity, cultural engagement, and missional innovation in church planting.
