California is almost 40 million strong in population with the world’s 7th most powerful economy.In Northern California we almost have a 50/50 balance of churches closed & sold to the amount of churches still open for the last 25 years or so. So where we used to have & own properties with church buildings some of them are long gone & so are the members.A small piece of property here can be worth 7 digits easy.The entire Bay Area surrounding San Francisco is a target, SF alone needs a major church plant. I believe we have 1 church in San Jose, CA with over 1 million in population.Way more cities to list where there is no ZERO presence of a CoG ministry.We have a few churches in Sacramento.Northern Cal above Sacramento has a few really good churches.South of Sacramento (almost 300 miles) to Bakersfield we have about 15-20 churches sprinkled out over this vast San Joaquin Valley.In Southern Cal we have a better representation of churches but the population is so immense that we could grow 999% over what we have & still need more. So Cal is about 25 million of the overall population base with maybe 60-65 churches overall. We have one church that is near the San Diego area.We have a handful of churches sprinkled out among the central coast (think Monterey, Carmel, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz) & the weather is the most awesome year round weather in the world, Golfers paradise! Best trophy fishing in the world & beaches for hundreds of miles.Tiny handful of churches in Oregon, Washington & Idaho. In fact those 3 states could all plant 100 churches each & we could use 100 more.
If I could pick any city for the COG to plant a church, it would be Boise, ID. Years ago I prayed about planting a church there – but that wasn’t what God had in mind. It’s a beautiful city of right around 200,000 people. Has an amazing culture, and REALLY needs Jesus!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boise,_Idaho
All together the Boise, Nampa & Meridian tri-cities consist of almost 700,000 according to 2014 population stats. It’s a mormon town but other mainstream pentecostal churches have done well there. I think you should ask God to send the right guy there Clint & then ask the Lord if it’s you.My church will make a monthly financial commitment to whoever goes there to plant a church if you’ll keep me informed________________Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing …introducing people to Jesus!
Years ago I went on vacation to Seattle. I’ve got some family up there. It’s an area that needs the Gospel. I know there are solid churches outside our tribe that are doing great, like City Church, Judah Smith. I’d love to go to a city out west, or even in my native Midwest, like Ann Arbor (close to my hometown), where we’ve got no COG________________The World As I See Itworldjeffreysees.blogspot.com/Revuriah’s Facebookwww.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Richard/1226257444Jeffrey David Richard’s Myspace Musicwww.myspace.com/547856946
My oldest son lived in Seattle for 9 years & when I would go see him you could sense a spirit of darkness all over that city. They need salvation like no other city I have ever known, including some of the 3rd world places I’ve been to.I live fairly close to San Francisco (1 hour) & we all know that SF is known for it’s diverse lifestyles & gay communities. We have stayed the night in SF multiple times & we have several nice restaurants we enjoy using. In the last 20 years I doubt I have seen more than a half dozen gays exhibiting affection out in the open, including Golden Gate Park.In Seattle, the gay lifestyle & transgender community are super strong & very outspoken about their life choices. We saw PDA’s amongst the gays every day on almost all public streets & in the tourist corridors. The comment was made how that Seattle has become the mecca for the homosexual lifestyle on the west coast. Yes …we definitely need a strong move of God in Washington & especially in the Seattle area!!________________Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing …introducing people to Jesus!
I think probably the ripest field in the US for the CoG is in Texas. It’s the fastest growing state for years, very business friendly and very friendly to churches as well. Yet the CoG has less than 200 (non-hispanic/Indian) churches here! Our church is getting ready to plant another church soon, and if you know someone that wants to come here, send them my way! I live in Fort Worth which is an awesome city (we don’t go to Dallas or even recognize them!) Great art, music, food, laid back feel, lots of family-friendly stuff to do. At the same time, there is tons of potential here. Plus, I don’t think the resistance here would be as thick as it would be in Cali or Seattle imho. Seriously…call me!817-675-074________________Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.-C.S. LewisThe only good race pace is suicide pace–and today looks like a good day to die.
Just based on your summary California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington & Arizona represent just under 61 million in population with Calif. at 39.14 of that number. Almost 1 in 5 Americans live in just these 5 states & you think Texas is the hot spot? Could not have known that by your avatar picture Resistance or not the west coast should be a full throttle pilot program for planting & assuring church planters of the great need in a place that is becoming ever darker to the gospel.Read this story for some Christian hate in Arizona:www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/01/bible-reading-not-allowed-before-class-professor-tells-student.html________________Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing …introducing people to Jesus!
Shouldn’t you be asking how many churches there are in a region, rather than just how many COGs there are? If a town in California had a lot of A/G’s, Charismatic churches, and Foursquare churches, is there as compelling argument for starting a COG denominational church there as there would be for a place with not a lot of churches________________
Sure…but I am a CoG guy. AND, 70% of people in the city I live in don’t go to church anywhere. Since there are 7 million people in the Fort Worth area, that means around 5 million people here are not connected to a faith community–and that’s just in our fair burg. And yes, I am biased toward TEXAS, Dean! Because #1–it’s awesome (typical Texan, right?)#2–it’s where I am #3–there’s still a need here. Yes, it is the hotspot–just visit in August, and you’ll see! But also because tons of people from the all over are moving here for the business friendly environment with still relatively low cost of living. Plus we have millions of immigrants, mostly from Mexico, but really all over. So, I don’t really care…go to Oregon or Zimbabwe or Chattanooga. If God calls you to plant a church, just go! But if you are looking for a place, there’s still need here, even in God’s country. I would love to plant a church in Austin right now btw for anyone who is interested in amazing tacos________________Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.-C.S. LewisThe only good race pace is suicide pace–and today looks like a good day to die.
Of course He does, however I would suggest that many in the COG are planting churches in their own back yard while remaining in their comfort zone.I would be interested in knowing how many church plants were started from those who came from, say, over 500 miles. I believe that number would be very small. Are we truly taking a step of faith or just dipping our toe in the water?
I understand your rationale but that is assuming that everybody in town can be reached by the churches that exist.If those churches have mostly elderly folks, it’s likely they will not evangelize much.No, we need multiple outlets to make an imprint on multiple types of people.The current population of the San Francisco Bay Area here in Northern California is approaching 8 million or almost double the size population of the entire state of Alabama. I’m only talking about the land mass that makes up the SF Bay Area.We have approximately 15 churches in an area of almost 3,000 sq. miles.Alabama is a little over 52,000 sq, miles & has what …almost 400 churches? There are all kinds of guys on here that will argue the point that even with almost 400 churches in a place with barely 4 million in population, we need to plant more churches in Alabama. Really??? We haven’t saturated the state with our brand? I’m excited for ALL church plants, even where we’re saturated but I can’t help but feel we need to do more CoG church planting in places where very few people know about Jesus & the CoG vision for planting new churches.We seem to have such a narrow view of evangelism sometimes that we think our brand is the same no matter where people go but thats not true at all. We need fresh church plants everywhere we can plant them so that we can spread the largest nets to gain the biggest catches. To paraphrase the text, Jesus said to go out into the highways & hedges & compel them to come in so that my house may be FULL Jesus is very interested in us having ‘FULL’ churches & tons of church plants! ________________Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing …introducing people to Jesus!
California is almost 40 million strong in population with the world’s 7th most powerful economy.In Northern California we almost have a 50/50 balance of churches closed & sold to the amount of churches still open for the last 25 years or so. So where we used to have & own properties with church buildings some of them are long gone & so are the members.A small piece of property here can be worth 7 digits easy.The entire Bay Area surrounding San Francisco is a target, SF alone needs a major church plant. I believe we have 1 church in San Jose, CA with over 1 million in population.Way more cities to list where there is no ZERO presence of a CoG ministry.We have a few churches in Sacramento.Northern Cal above Sacramento has a few really good churches.South of Sacramento (almost 300 miles) to Bakersfield we have about 15-20 churches sprinkled out over this vast San Joaquin Valley.In Southern Cal we have a better representation of churches but the population is so immense that we could grow 999% over what we have & still need more. So Cal is about 25 million of the overall population base with maybe 60-65 churches overall. We have one church that is near the San Diego area.We have a handful of churches sprinkled out among the central coast (think Monterey, Carmel, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz) & the weather is the most awesome year round weather in the world, Golfers paradise! Best trophy fishing in the world & beaches for hundreds of miles.Tiny handful of churches in Oregon, Washington & Idaho. In fact those 3 states could all plant 100 churches each & we could use 100 more.
If I could pick any city for the COG to plant a church, it would be Boise, ID. Years ago I prayed about planting a church there – but that wasn’t what God had in mind. It’s a beautiful city of right around 200,000 people. Has an amazing culture, and REALLY needs Jesus!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boise,_Idaho
All together the Boise, Nampa & Meridian tri-cities consist of almost 700,000 according to 2014 population stats. It’s a mormon town but other mainstream pentecostal churches have done well there. I think you should ask God to send the right guy there Clint & then ask the Lord if it’s you.My church will make a monthly financial commitment to whoever goes there to plant a church if you’ll keep me informed________________Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing …introducing people to Jesus!
Years ago I went on vacation to Seattle. I’ve got some family up there. It’s an area that needs the Gospel. I know there are solid churches outside our tribe that are doing great, like City Church, Judah Smith. I’d love to go to a city out west, or even in my native Midwest, like Ann Arbor (close to my hometown), where we’ve got no COG________________The World As I See Itworldjeffreysees.blogspot.com/Revuriah’s Facebookwww.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Richard/1226257444Jeffrey David Richard’s Myspace Musicwww.myspace.com/547856946
My oldest son lived in Seattle for 9 years & when I would go see him you could sense a spirit of darkness all over that city. They need salvation like no other city I have ever known, including some of the 3rd world places I’ve been to.I live fairly close to San Francisco (1 hour) & we all know that SF is known for it’s diverse lifestyles & gay communities. We have stayed the night in SF multiple times & we have several nice restaurants we enjoy using. In the last 20 years I doubt I have seen more than a half dozen gays exhibiting affection out in the open, including Golden Gate Park.In Seattle, the gay lifestyle & transgender community are super strong & very outspoken about their life choices. We saw PDA’s amongst the gays every day on almost all public streets & in the tourist corridors. The comment was made how that Seattle has become the mecca for the homosexual lifestyle on the west coast. Yes …we definitely need a strong move of God in Washington & especially in the Seattle area!!________________Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing …introducing people to Jesus!
I think probably the ripest field in the US for the CoG is in Texas. It’s the fastest growing state for years, very business friendly and very friendly to churches as well. Yet the CoG has less than 200 (non-hispanic/Indian) churches here! Our church is getting ready to plant another church soon, and if you know someone that wants to come here, send them my way! I live in Fort Worth which is an awesome city (we don’t go to Dallas or even recognize them!) Great art, music, food, laid back feel, lots of family-friendly stuff to do. At the same time, there is tons of potential here. Plus, I don’t think the resistance here would be as thick as it would be in Cali or Seattle imho. Seriously…call me!817-675-074________________Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.-C.S. LewisThe only good race pace is suicide pace–and today looks like a good day to die.
Just based on your summary California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington & Arizona represent just under 61 million in population with Calif. at 39.14 of that number. Almost 1 in 5 Americans live in just these 5 states & you think Texas is the hot spot? Could not have known that by your avatar picture Resistance or not the west coast should be a full throttle pilot program for planting & assuring church planters of the great need in a place that is becoming ever darker to the gospel.Read this story for some Christian hate in Arizona:www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/01/bible-reading-not-allowed-before-class-professor-tells-student.html________________Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing …introducing people to Jesus!
Shouldn’t you be asking how many churches there are in a region, rather than just how many COGs there are? If a town in California had a lot of A/G’s, Charismatic churches, and Foursquare churches, is there as compelling argument for starting a COG denominational church there as there would be for a place with not a lot of churches________________
Sure…but I am a CoG guy. AND, 70% of people in the city I live in don’t go to church anywhere. Since there are 7 million people in the Fort Worth area, that means around 5 million people here are not connected to a faith community–and that’s just in our fair burg. And yes, I am biased toward TEXAS, Dean! Because #1–it’s awesome (typical Texan, right?)#2–it’s where I am #3–there’s still a need here. Yes, it is the hotspot–just visit in August, and you’ll see! But also because tons of people from the all over are moving here for the business friendly environment with still relatively low cost of living. Plus we have millions of immigrants, mostly from Mexico, but really all over. So, I don’t really care…go to Oregon or Zimbabwe or Chattanooga. If God calls you to plant a church, just go! But if you are looking for a place, there’s still need here, even in God’s country. I would love to plant a church in Austin right now btw for anyone who is interested in amazing tacos________________Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.-C.S. LewisThe only good race pace is suicide pace–and today looks like a good day to die.
Of course He does, however I would suggest that many in the COG are planting churches in their own back yard while remaining in their comfort zone.I would be interested in knowing how many church plants were started from those who came from, say, over 500 miles. I believe that number would be very small. Are we truly taking a step of faith or just dipping our toe in the water?
I understand your rationale but that is assuming that everybody in town can be reached by the churches that exist.If those churches have mostly elderly folks, it’s likely they will not evangelize much.No, we need multiple outlets to make an imprint on multiple types of people.The current population of the San Francisco Bay Area here in Northern California is approaching 8 million or almost double the size population of the entire state of Alabama. I’m only talking about the land mass that makes up the SF Bay Area.We have approximately 15 churches in an area of almost 3,000 sq. miles.Alabama is a little over 52,000 sq, miles & has what …almost 400 churches? There are all kinds of guys on here that will argue the point that even with almost 400 churches in a place with barely 4 million in population, we need to plant more churches in Alabama. Really??? We haven’t saturated the state with our brand? I’m excited for ALL church plants, even where we’re saturated but I can’t help but feel we need to do more CoG church planting in places where very few people know about Jesus & the CoG vision for planting new churches.We seem to have such a narrow view of evangelism sometimes that we think our brand is the same no matter where people go but thats not true at all. We need fresh church plants everywhere we can plant them so that we can spread the largest nets to gain the biggest catches. To paraphrase the text, Jesus said to go out into the highways & hedges & compel them to come in so that my house may be FULL Jesus is very interested in us having ‘FULL’ churches & tons of church plants! ________________Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing …introducing people to Jesus!