Last week, Sixto Rivera, Mike Eppinette and I got together and talked about how we could create new pipelines of Latino church planters. As this ministry explodes, there will not be enough church planters to fill the need.
One pipeline for potential planters is through Christian colleges. However, currently, there are probably less than 20 Latino Bible majors in all of the Church of Christ affilliated colleges. This must change, but how?

We came up with the following idea. Share the vision of Genesis Alliance with Christian college presidents, department chairs, professors, recruiters, and students. Ask the colleges to offer a discounted tuition rate, in combination with a Genesis Alliance scholarship, for young Hispanics who wanted to go into church planting.

Qualifications for the scholarship would be a desire/intent to plant Latino churches or be a significant contributor to a new Latino church plant. Of course, character and potential for ministry would also be factors. Those that received the scholarship would work with Genesis Alliance in a "work study" type of format throughout the year, helping to recruit other planters, spread the word for this ministry, reach out to non-Christians Latinos, etc. Much of the work would revolve around social networking, both in person and online (this site, Facebook).

As the number of Genesis Alliance plants grow, scholarship recipients could help with a local GA plant during the year. During the summer, they would serve as an intern with a GA church planter. This would not only provide help to the church planter, but it could serve as an apprenticeship to help train new church planters.

This is the "Genesis" of this idea, and the details and plans with the colleges would still have to be worked out. However, we already have some young Latinos in mind who would be great fits for this scholarship.

Very shortly, we'll reveal one Christian college Bible student who has a great story and wants to help with Genesis Alliance. He can serve as the prototype for this new scholarship/internship. Stay tuned!

What do you think of this idea? How could Genesis Alliance best partner with Christian colleges to produce more Hispanic church planters?

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What a fantastic idea, and needed in every way. Thanks, James, for your continued leadership. I will be surprised if something DOESN'T materialize. God be praised.

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