ALPHARETTA, Ga. — This fall, Send Network One Day events are coming to cities across North America in an effort to catalyze a movement around the Great Commission.

Last year, Send Network, the North American Mission Board’s (NAMB) church planting arm, celebrated that Southern Baptists have planted more than 11,000 churches since 2010, but the growing lostness in North America presents an urgent need for more.

These all-new One Day events reflect Send Network’s commitment to mobilize pastors, planters, church planting teams and believers to address this challenge.

“These events are all about coming together locally to pray, learn, and strategize with like-minded leaders,” said Vance Pitman, president of Send Network. “We’re focusing locally to bring the mission closer to home. By doing this, we can connect with more people where they live, work and play — engaging with more churches, inspiring more disciples and raising up more planters and teams — all for God’s mission.”

One Day events provide training and inspiration, localize the mission

In 2024,  Send Network’s two semi-national Gatherings in Long Beach, Calif., and Boston, Mass., trained and encouraged more than 2,000 church planters, pastors and leaders. The flagship events featured the theme “Multiplication for Movement” to reflect the need to multiply disciples and new churches to fulfill the Great Commission and reach the world.

To that end, Send Network has been rallying around the vision of seeing God expand His kingdom by 1% in North America over the next decade by reaching 2.75 million lost people.

Send Network One Day events represent a shift from large, centralized gatherings to localized events throughout four main U.S. regions — northeast, midwest, south and west. By focusing on local events, Send Network seeks to engage more churches and individuals in the mission of church planting to reach people for Christ. This change creates opportunities for more people to participate and engage directly in their context.

Attendees are encouraged to bring others with them, whether they are fellow leaders, team members or individuals exploring their place in God’s kingdom expansion.

“God has called every believer and every church to be part of His mission,” said Noah Oldham, executive director of Send Network. “Send Network One Day is an invitation to step out in faith, lock arms with others and join what God is doing in your city, North America and beyond.”

What to expect at a Send Network One Day event:

Send Network One Day events highlight the need for collaboration among believers and churches to make a greater gospel impact and are designed to rally God’s people around His mission through:

• Prayer: Seeking God’s guidance and power in joining His work of kingdom expansion.
• Worship: Lifting up the name of Jesus together as a unified body.
• Learning: Gaining practical tools and fresh vision for multiplying disciples and churches.
• Strategizing: Collaborating with others to engage cities and neighborhoods with the gospel.

“We believe when God’s people unite and desperately seek Him, He shows up. And when He does, we get to experience transformation, deep connections and renewed vision for the mission,” Pitman said.

Why church planting?

At the heart of the Great Commission is the call to go and make disciples, to take the gospel beyond the walls of the church and into new communities. Church planting is a vital part of fulfilling this call. Send Network One Day events will challenge and inspire attendees to see how every believer and every church has a role in multiplying disciples and churches for the glory of God.

“Church planting isn’t a side activity or an optional ministry strategy — it’s the heartbeat of the New Testament,” Vance wrote in a recent article. “Through church planting, we step into the same mission Paul and the early church embraced: engaging cities with the gospel, making disciples, raising up leaders, and seeing God’s kingdom expand across cities, cultures, countries, and continents.”

Send Network One Day events will provide the opportunity to reinforce this vision, equipping attendees to join in on God’s expansion of His kingdom through the multiplication of disciples and churches.

“The vision is to see rooms filled with men and women who are united in seeking God’s face and saying, ‘God, how can we obey the Great Commission? We want to multiply disciples; we want to multiply churches. God, we’re yours. Speak, and we’ll obey,’” Oldham said.

To find a Send Network One Day near you and register, visit SendNetwork.com/OneDay.