Church Planting and Evangelism

CHURCH PLANTING AND EVANGELISM
Our goal is to do Evangelism that results into Church Planting emphasizing Discipleship of both Church Leaders and New Converts. BBT intends to bring about a total transformation that reveals the Kingdom of God in communities where Born-Again Believers exist thus exposing the task of serving God inside the Church House as well as outside the four corners of the Church.

Church Planting and building;
In Romans 15: 20-21, Apostle Paul discouraged the idea of planting a local church where another local church already existed. He encouraged church planting in areas where Jesus Christ has never been preached. It worked very well for him and his team and many local churches were planted in different regions.

Since 1979, BBT and Alex Mitala have planted 147 local churches in both Uganda.

THE GOAL;
After the Gospel is preached to all, we give opportunities to people to REPENT of their sins and to BELIEVE in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. When they do, we disciple them and prepare them for water baptism. Then we begin to meet regularly for bible study, fellowship, worship and for developmental education.

CHALLENGES;
Church planting pauses the following challenges.

1. Housing of the first congregation of new converts.

• A place has to be hired for sometime before the new born baby church gets a home of its own.
• In some areas where there are hostile religions and where witchcraft reigns, BBT has to devise and apply alot of wisdom to buy a piece of land in the midst of that community before the Church is planted. After secretly buying the land for the purpose of planting a church then evangelism starts with land ready for the new church. By the time the natives start to persecute the young believers and their church it will be impossible for the new church to be shaken because they will be possessing their own land already.
• Most young churches start in makeshift temporary structures like this one below.

2. BBT is supposed to take care of the Pastor of the new church for atleast 2(two) years before the newly planted church takes the responsibility of taking care of their Pastor.

3. Leadership and Administration in the new established church takes a long time to shape up as according to scripture.

4. Transport for Church Leaders and Pastors is always needed especially in remote bush areas. The Pastors in such areas need bicycles to help them to move to the different areas because Church planting is still wanting those areas and that is where most of the population lives.

5. The local young church then embarks on transforming the community by introducing the following:

•     Fighting Poverty systematically
•     Eradication of Illeteracy
•     Defeating Ignorance,Superstition and un-civilised Cultures.

Therefore, Training, Capacity building and Awareness is the common challenge in implementing the above.

TRAINING OF PASTORS AND CHURCH LEADERS
All Pastors and other church leaders must be trained, both in fundamental Biblical teachings and in leadership. However, the majority of such pastors that are called to serve in the bush regions are not educated and do not always speak the common languages. These take special care. New lessons must be developed and translated into their respective languages. Also, new locations for these school venues must be located. As these classes are 40 days long, funding is an issue. Please visit our activities page to learn about our FOMPSOM Bible College that focuses on training church leaders and ministers.

COSTS & NEEDS

• It costs BBT $2,500 to run a school of 50 church leaders for 40 days.
• BBT needs a 4-wheel-drive truck for evangelism ($12,000)
• BBT needs 1,000 Bibles in local languages ($10 each)
• BBT needs 200 bicycles for bush evangelists and church leaders
• BBT needs short-term visiting Bible Teachers and Mentors
• BBT needs Portable Public Addressing Systems
• BBT needs your Prayers!

We ask you to pray for this business of converting and discipling, because a true church is composed of disciples but not just converts