Posts

Tampa Pastors talk about becoming church planting churches

/0 Comments/in , , /by

Answering the Sending Call: Church Planting Churches in Tampa Bay

In partnership with the Tampa Bay Baptist Association, CERICDigital and Boe Ellis are pleased to announce today the release of a new church planting site at www.TampaBayChurchPlanting.com.

The project includes multiple videos, a new blog and a profile of target areas in Tampa.

Featured above  is a 12-minute piece casting vision for the Association’s church planting churches initiative.

Our Association has a vision for Tampa becoming a prolific church planting hub that embraces the Great Commission by equipping and sending out church planters around the world (Acts 1:8).

We pray we can help you be a part of this vision.

A few of our pastors are praying and pressing ahead toward this vision. And it was our privilege earlier this year to sit down with a handful of these pastors to ask them to share some encouragements and insights.

Special thanks to Ken Whitten, Justin Perry, Bruce Moore, George Thomasson, Stephen Rummage,  Joel Vicente, Quincy Stratford and Drew Tucker for their participation.

MNYBA: A Church Planting Center for Jackson Heights, Queens

/0 Comments/in , , /by


The Metro-New York Baptist Association has a vision for reaching the nations from the most diverse place on the planet: Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC.

Partnerships are forming now to create a church planting center in Jackson Heights: a physical space, that would house multiple congregations, and allow for citizenship and ESL classes, mission team housing, and more.

It is a huge vision that must involve other churches, state conventions and associations. You can be a part of it. Please watch this video and connect with George Russ in NYC to secure your spot on the upcoming vision tour.

Boe Ellis and MNYBA look at diversity in NYC

/0 Comments/in , /by

WAKE FOREST, NC- CERICDigital is humbled and blessed to announce today the release of “Metrocard to the Nations,” a look at the incredible diversity in the most strategic city on the planet.

The Nations have come to New York City. And for maybe the first time, we can think about fulfilling the Great Commission in our lifetimes. And that is not so much because of our grand successes in taking the Gospel to the Nations but in God’s Grand Grace in bringing the Nations to our doorstep. Are you with us?

Join George Russ, Director of Mission with the Metropolitan New York Baptist Association, as we explore the most ethnically diverse city in the United States. Follow Pastor Boto Joseph through Little India, and visit with Tom Richter, Freddy T Wyatt and other pastors in Queens and Manhattan. Come along us as we explore God’s global purposes in New York.

Click on the image above to launch the video.

CERICDigital and MNYBA look at 911 and church planting

/0 Comments/in , /by

WAKE FOREST, NC- CERICDigital is humbled  and blessed to announce today the release of “10 Years Later – Church Planting in NYC,” a look at the past, the present and the future of Southern Baptist church planting in the most strategic city on the planet. Framed by the events of 911 and the years that followed, this video looks at how the Lord Jesus Christ, the savior of the world, is building His Kingdom globally through the nations and the church planters He has called to Metro NYC. Are you with us?

Listen in as the city tells its own story from New Jersey to Times Square to Jackson Heights, and as men like Steve Allen, Chris Clayman, Tom Richter, Chris High, Rich Perez, Boto Joseph, Freddy T. Wyatt and more challenge you to answer the call to the most densely populated area in the U.S. where less than three percent of the population knows Jesus Christ as the Lord of their lives.

CERICDigital and BCNE roll out new site and church planting videos

/0 Comments/in , , /by

WAKE FOREST, NC – CERICDigital is privileged to announce today the release of www.bostonchuchplanting.com, as Phase I of a massive effort by Joe Souza of the North America Mission Board and the Baptist Convention of New England to promote and assist  church planters in Boston.

The site headlines a 15-minute video entitled “Boston Church Planting – Up Close  and Personal,” and features additionally 12 videos from 12 different church planters in 12 different parts of the city:

  • Jan Vezikov – Allston, Matt Chewning – Beverly, Juan Maclean – South End, Bland Mason – Brookline, Vivek Arora – Harvard, Dan BK – Cambridge, Lynn, Tanner Turley – Medford, Joe Souza – Saugus, James Thomasson – Taunton, Chris Bass – Watertown, Josh Wyatt – Roslindale, Chris Willis – Weymouth,

We want to thank Joe and many others at NAMB and the BCNE for their leadership in supporting Boston Church Planting and in creating www.bostonchurchplanting.com. We are looking forward to working with the BCNE and NAMB soon to launch Phase II of the site which will entail more videos and detailed neighborhood profiles of the cities and towns where gospel-preaching churches are desperately needed.

Jesus commands us to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the Ends of the Earth (Acts 1:8). Here are some statistics on the Ends of the Earth in the U.S.:

  • 26 percent of adult Americans consider themselves evangelical or born again. That’s 1 in 4 people.
  • In Tampa, FL, that number is about 12 percent, or 1 in 8 people.
  • In Boston, that number it is 2.5 percent – or 1 in every 40 people.
  • Of 269 MSA regions, Boston ranks 261st as the ninth-least evangelized area in the country. And of the bottom 20 cities on that list only Salt Lake City, UT and Provo, UT are not in the Northeast.
  • In terms of population, 55 Million people (1 in 5.5 Americans) live in the Northeast.
  • In Boston (inside the I-495 corridor) that amounts to about 3.9 million people who have no personal relationship with Christ.
  • In the Northeast that amounts to 53.6 million people without Christ.
  • That is more people than the total number of people in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia combined.
  • There are more Christians in Lebanon than born-again believers in the Northeast United States.
  • If the Northeast was a country, it would be the 24th largest country in the world and rank as the 152nd (out of 182) most evangelized.
  • On a percentage basis, Saudi Arabia, Libya, India, Syria, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt, just to name a few, have a higher percentage of the population claiming to be Christian than those in the Northeast who claim to be born again.

CERICDigital partners with NAMB to Pray for New York City

/0 Comments/in , , /by

WAKE FOREST, NC – J. Boe Ellis of CERICDigital in Wake Forest, NC is pleased to announce today the release of a 12-minute prayer walking video featuring Freddy T. Wyatt  and others pastors and church planters in New York City.

Under the direction of Dr. Mike Dodson at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ellis traveled to New York City for one week in August 2010. Please see Dr. Dodson’s www.NACPN.com to view the project and learn more about it!

CERICDigital and the North American Church Planting Network

/0 Comments/in , /by

WAKE FOREST, NC – J. Boe Ellis is pleased to announce today our involvement in the North American Church Planting Network with Dr. Mike Dodson.

As an intern in the Center for Great Commission Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC, I have been charged with maintaining Dr. Dodson’s new church planting portal.

Check it out at www.nacpn.com.