News & Updates

Christmas reminds us that our God is a sending God! SENT Network equips and sends. That is, we partner with existing churches to strengthen and send church planters into neighborhoods, subcultures, and cities with the good news of Jesus, much like the Antioch church did (Acts 13:1-4). Christmas…

KEN BOA EVENT SENT Network church plants seek to reach all types of people in various subcultures in their cities and neighborhoods. Downtown Hope has been a good example of this. Downtown Hope recently partnered with the C.S. Lewis Institute in Annapolis to bring the good news…

We closed up our summer after enjoying our annual Crab Feast for church planters. Instead of our normal monthly Collective we changed things up. From time to time we just go for a “no agenda” relational time of fun together. Annapolis is known for great crabs so we shared this…

Important ministry isn’t always highly visible. The church planter assessments we do in SENT Network are unseen by most, but they are a significant part of planting healthy churches. Long before we commission out a church planter, or even before one trains with us, we assess…

Discipleship.  Multiplication.  Leadership Development of the Head, Heart, and Hands. Coaching. Encouragement. Resources. Vision…just a few of the things SENT Network brings to church planters and churches. SENT is the church planting arm for Bay Area Community Church.  Through SENT, BACC church planters have been equipped in residency…

Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Luke 10:2-3). We are continually praying and recruiting laborers for the harvest to plant gospel-centered churches. However, we will intensify these…

What a joy it was to celebrate with The Well Community Church on their second anniversary this past Sunday in Silver Spring, Maryland!  God used Matt and Courtney Klingler (with their 4 children, now 5) to birth this thriving young church just two years ago (see pictures below).

Our recent monthly Collective of church planters with SENT Network was super encouraging! We meet monthly to connect relationally, celebrate wins, help with challenges, and to do focused teaching around strategic ministry practices. We focused on Cultivating Faithful Disciples in this last Collective. It was great to hear several of…

This past weekend, I had the joy of celebrating the five-year anniversary with one of SENT Network’s church plants in Annapolis, Downtown Hope (DH). Joey Tomassoni leads DH, and did a great job last Sunday retelling the story of their church’s start that was bathed in intercessory prayer. He recounted…