WHAT WE DO

Perhaps your church has begun sensing a desire to start a new church. Maybe your church has set aside a leadership team for church planting. Maybe you are a man who has sensed the call to start a church but have little or no support from your home church. Whatever stage you might be at our network can help.

Many churches and church planters, when planting alone, become exhausted or discouraged by the process and never move on to a second or third church. By joining the Norcal Network you will have access to a growing network of other committed congregations, church leaders and church planters. You will also have access to additional local resources to help with the plant, which will increase the likelihood of further church plants. This collaboration takes place on the financial, spiritual and practical level.

The Norcal Network exists to help you facilitate and sustain the launch of a new church by connecting church plants, church planting churches and church planters with each other. The vehicles for sustaining communication include local seminars, conferences, coaching, online interaction and updates for your ministry circulated throughout member churches.

DOCTRINAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL COMMITMENTS

The network is in broad and essential agreement with the foundational documents of the Gospel Coalition. These include “The Gospel for All of Life”,  “Confessional Statement” and “Vision for Ministry.” Together these documents provide a doctrinal foundation consistent with historic orthodox evangelicalism and broad enough for cross-denominational partnerships.

They also provide a framework for addressing the methodological challenges of postmodernism including such issues as contextualization, hermeneutics and culture. Of special importance to the network is the description of gospel-centered ministry.

The Norcal Network places special emphasis upon the core ideas of gospel-centered ministry such as; empowered corporate worship, evangelistic effectiveness, genuine counter-cultural community, the integration of faith and work and the doing of justice and mercy as the application of the gospel in ministry. These core concepts give shape to our local ministries in ways that engage the surrounding culture while always seeking to remain faithful to doctrinal essentials.