Church planting
BMS sends and resources people to be involved in starting and developing churches throughout the world.
A church plant can take many forms, and care is taken that it is culturally appropriate.
In Guinea, Simon Wood is working with a small team of Guinean pastors training Guinean missionaries to be church planters. Simon is seeing many baptisms of people who have moved out from their Muslim upbringing. In South Africa, Dan Pratt is working with young people, helping in their discipleship and formation as Christian leaders.
Several BMS personnel are church planters and facilitators in Europe. In Shkozë, a suburb of Tirana, the capital of Albania, a medical outreach project has begun from a church plant led by BMS personnel Graham and Mairi McBain. In France, Reuben and Katie Martin are church planting in a tough area of Rouen. In Italy ministers are developing multi-national congregations and have large geographical areas to cover.
In Peru, Baptist minister and BMS mission worker Scott Williamson is working with university students and has started a café church in Cusco.
Meanwhile, the Indonesia Baptist Church Convention (KGBI) now has around 20 church planters working in Sumatra, supported by BMS World Mission.