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February 18, 2025

Growing Together Podcast: Preparing To Parent a Plant

Launching a daughter church is no simple task. As with parenting, birthing a new church can be fraught with anxiety and conflict and with joy and celebration. When parenting a plant, churches need to consider the costs and benefits, and having a good midwife certainly helps. If the PCA had a midwife or doula, it would be Ted Powers, Director of The Midwest Alliance. He’s overseen countless plants nationally over the past 25 years and, more recently, focusing on the 14 presbyteries of the Midwest, as the Director of the Midwest Alliance. Few people in our circles are more knowledgeable than Ted about preparing to parent a plant, and that is what we will be talking about today on Growing Together.

 

To learn more: https://www.midwestalliancepca.com/

Chris is a church planter and leader from Lancaster, PA. He married his wife Janet in 1982 and settled in Wisconsin 35 years ago. After completing seminary and pursuing a Ph.D., he assisted with a church plant in Milwaukee before planting Cornerstone Church in Waukesha in 1992. He served as senior pastor for 26 years and has been involved in church planting and credentialing in Northern Illinois and Wisconsin Presbyteries. He is the former Director of the On Wisconsin Network and the founder of NXTGEN Pastors, which trains mentors for pastoral health. Chris is also on the board of The Midwest Alliance and Flourish Coaching. Chris currently serves as MNA Church Planting and Vitality Coordinator. He and Janet have been married for 40 years and have three children and three grandchildren.