Ministry Partnership Opportunities in Atlanta

As some of you may be aware, our association, the Savannah River Baptist Association, recently voted to establish several strategic mission partnerships. These mission partnerships are strategic, long-term investments of prayer, people, and finances in specific locations with defined purposes. One of our partners at the national level is Urban Atlanta Church Planting (UACP). Our goal in this partnership is to assist UACP in growing new congregations through prayer, community ministries, and volunteer mission involvement. The benefit to our churches is that we will be providing opportunities for SRBA volunteers to be missionaries outside our association, discover new ways of doing missions at home, grow as disciples, live life as missional Christians, and work with partnership volunteers in impacting our own area for Christ.

UACP is a cooperative effort of Atlanta Association of Southern Baptist Churches and Atlanta Metro Baptist Association to engage urban lostness by intentionally planting relevant reproducing congregations inside Atlanta’s perimeter (ITP) that produce community transformation through: Prayer - praying for lost and unchurched people on a daily basis; Engagement - engaging unreached people in small groups; Sowing - sharing the good news and the truth of Scripture in every way possible in order to make disciples; and Harvesting – developing contextual evangelistic strategies, conducting intentionally evangelistic events, following up and assimilating new believers into Bible Study and worship, and developing reproducing Jesus followers. UACP is also currently a mission partner of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Included with this letter is some additional information on UACP for your review.

In fulfillment of our partnership goals, SRBA staff will be scheduling overnight trips for our pastors and key church leaders to participate in a vision tour with UACP leaders. Providing our churches with the opportunity to learn more about what God is doing in Atlanta and to determine whether to establish a direct partnership with UACP. SRBA staff will also provide assistance to our churches on how to develop goals, time lines, and other pertinent partnership issues.

If you are interested in participating in one of these overnight vision trips, please contact me as soon as possible. I can be reached at (843) 301-0111 or via email at henryc@crosspointbluffton.org. Thank you for your time and I look forward to working with you soon!

Information packets on UACP and the SRBA Partnership are available here or you can learn more about what God is doing in Atlanta through UACP at their website.