Daryl Price, director of the church multiplication group of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, is calling the Intentional Church Multiplication Process a success after one Edisto Association church and 10 Aiken churches completed the inaugural one-year process in June.
“What’s happening in and near the Aiken Association is a great ministry story,” Price said. “But for the Intentional Church Multiplication Process, the story is really just beginning.”
In Aiken, a new cluster of churches will begin the process in September. Millbrook Church, which served as the mentor church for the first cluster, will continue in that role for a new group of churches. Also, a cluster of seven churches has formed in Allendale-Hampton Association, and 14 churches have formed a cluster in Screven Association.
“Rock Hill Association and Spartanburg County Network are recruiting churches for clusters in those areas,” Price said. “In every cluster, even in the inaugural one, the state convention was invited to join them by a pastor or the local director of missions.”
“It’s not just a few pastors coming together in an area for training,” Price said. “It is the beginning of a transformational multiplication movement.” – SCBC