About Acts 29
What if one of the most effective ways to reach more people with the Gospel is simply to plant more healthy churches?
That's the conviction behind Acts 29.
Acts 29 is a global church-planting network dedicated to recruiting, assessing, training, and supporting church planters around the world. Drawing on decades of church-planting experience, the network gives pastors and leaders practical guidance, relationships, training, and tools to help them establish churches designed to grow, thrive, and make disciples.
But Acts 29 isn't interested in planting churches simply to increase the number of congregations.
The larger goal is to see Gospel-centered churches established in communities where people can hear about Jesus, become disciples, grow within Christian community, and eventually participate in taking the Gospel even further.
Why Acts 29 Exists
There are billions of people around the world who do not know Jesus.
For Acts 29, that reality makes church planting deeply connected to the Great Commission. The vision is to see people from every tribe, tongue, culture, and nation come to know and worship Christ.
And one of the primary ways Acts 29 believes that happens is through local churches.
A healthy church can remain in a community for generations. It can evangelize, disciple new believers, develop leaders, serve its neighbors, send missionaries, and eventually plant additional churches.
That's why Acts 29 focuses on multiplication rather than simply establishing individual congregations.
Equipping Church Planters
Planting a church can be exciting, but it's also incredibly challenging.
Church planters must navigate preaching, leadership, discipleship, evangelism, finances, team development, cultural differences, community outreach, and countless other responsibilities while building a congregation from the ground up.
Acts 29 helps leaders prepare for that responsibility through assessment, training, coaching, resources, and ongoing relationships with other experienced church leaders.
Rather than expecting planters to figure everything out on their own, the network surrounds them with people who understand the realities of church planting.
Lessons learned in one church can then strengthen another.
Worldwide Church Planting
Acts 29 is committed to planting evangelistic churches around the world.
Rather than using a single model everywhere, the network works through regional relationships and local leadership. Regional leaders understand their communities, while church-to-church partnerships allow congregations to share resources, experience, encouragement, and support.
Acts 29 also wants churches to reflect the communities where they are planted.
A church in one culture may look very different from a church somewhere else. Language, traditions, leadership styles, and ministry approaches can vary, while the commitment to the Gospel remains shared.
This allows church planting to be both globally connected and locally rooted.
Theological Alignment
Acts 29 believes collaboration becomes stronger when churches know what they believe together.
The network is therefore built around shared theological convictions that provide a common foundation for its churches and church planters. While individual congregations may apply those convictions differently depending on their context, they remain united around core theological commitments.
That alignment helps churches cooperate across cities, regions, and countries without requiring every congregation to look exactly the same.
Different contexts. Shared convictions. One Gospel mission.
Relational Collaboration
Acts 29 isn't simply a collection of churches listed within the same network.
Relationships are an important part of how it works.
Church planters and leaders are encouraged to learn from one another, share experiences, build meaningful friendships, and collaborate in ministry. Churches can form partnerships that cross cities, regions, and even national borders.
A congregation with years of experience may help a new church planter navigate challenges. Churches in different countries may partner to establish congregations somewhere neither could effectively reach alone.
The idea is simple: churches can accomplish more together than they can in isolation.
Churches That Plant Churches
The long-term vision of Acts 29 goes beyond helping one church planter successfully launch one congregation.
Healthy churches can become church-planting churches themselves.
As disciples mature and leaders develop, a congregation can begin identifying future planters, sending teams, sharing resources, and helping establish additional churches. Those churches can eventually do the same.
One church becomes two. Those churches plant others. And over time, church planting becomes a multiplying movement.
At the heart of Acts 29 is a global vision: to see Gospel-centered churches planting more churches so that people from every tribe, tongue, and nation have opportunities to hear about Jesus, become His disciples, and worship Him.
