Matching Funds
Overview
Starting a new church is a journey of faith every step of the way. Once you are confident that God has called you to plant, you must begin to discover how He will supply the resources you will need to start a new church. Most importantly, you’ll need prayer partners and launch team members. You’ll need strategic connections in the community. And of course, you’ll need financial resources. That’s where the Church Multiplication Network Matching Fund can be a blessing to you. The Matching Fund is based on a simple idea: we can do more together than we can by ourselves. The Matching Fund provides a strategic way to make the most of your fund raising efforts.
Here’s how it works…Every approved Assemblies of God church planting project may apply for the Matching Fund one time during the planting process. A maximum of $30,000 per project is available. The funds must be used in a manner that maximizes the “start-up” event and therefore, the funds are only available for planting projects that have not yet had their public launch event. Click on the links below to view the detailed qualifications and access the application. Once you’ve had a chance to review the qualifications and application, give us a call at 417-862-2781 to get the Matching Fund process started.
Does it work? Here’s the Matching Fund Scorecard of what’s happened so far as we’ve worked together to multiply the Kingdom!
Here are the numbers for the Church Multiplication Network Matching Fund through the first 10 months.
Church planting projects that have received CMN Matching Funds: 21
CMN Matching Funds Churches that have launched: 13
Personal contacts with unchurched individuals: 10,842
Persons baptized in water: 86
Persons who have made a confession of faith: 451
Average Number of people per church attending weekly: 70
Amount given to missions by Matching Funds Churches: $92,679.91
Amount given by Matching Fund Churches to start new churches: $41,416.50
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