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About This Project
 When Christ gave His disciples the Great Commission, He emphasized the need to go and make more disciples. As God has designed all healthy organisms to grow, so does He expect His Body to increase in size. As Seventh-day Adventist Christians, we continue to share the early Church’s mission of making new Christian disciples. One of the ways that the Northern California Conference works to accomplish this goal is by ensuring that those who live within our territory will have access to an Adventist congregation.
With all of the population growth that has been taking place in the greater Folsom/El Dorado Hills area over the past several years, it has become evident that there are areas that are in great need of an Adventist presence. The NCC, with the help of the Rocklin-Sunset Oaks church, has decided to help fulfill the Great Commission by planting a church in the area with the most need.
There is much work to be done. In the last 20 years, most church plants were started by an individual leader. Today, we want to work through a church that will take on the responsibility of planting another church. Thus, our first steps will be to train a growing church on how to multiply their effective ness in reaching their community for God. When church plant work is done by a church, instead of an individual, the new group has a better safety-net and the effort becomes a blessing to both congregations.
After a church family is ready, a competent and experienced leader must be found. Then a team of lay Adventist members needs to be trained on how to lead out in small/home groups. Next, a place for these groups to join together in monthly worship needs to be secured. Finally, after the new believers have a solid Adventist foundation, a centralized location must be found for weekly Sabbath services. It is our goal to have the small groups together, functioning as a church of mainly new Adventists, by the fall of 2008.
Many in the NCC are excited at the possibilities this new church plant offers. We ask that you partner with us in advancing God’s kingdom in an area that is not presently served by one of our churches.
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