LITTLE ROCK, Ark. –Multiple pastors, church planters, and lay leaders gathered this past weekend at the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) building for Heart and Four Fields evangelism training.
The two-day training focused on effective evangelism and disciple-making strategy. It was led by Wynne Baptist Church Senior Pastor Matt Dunavant.
The goal of the training is to help churches and individuals broaden their strategic outlook and explore ways to multiply ministries, disciples, and evangelism.
“The purpose of Heart and Four Fields training is to help pastors and church planters and really just God’s people capture vision of what it means for us to be God’s people and for us to be the church,” Dunavant said.
“I want them to take away from today that there is a perfect harmony … if we’re a church that walks deeply with Jesus then we are going to be effective and passionate about reaching the people in our communities and all the way out from our Jerusalem to the ends of the Earth.”
The hope is for attendees to leave the weekend training with a clear pathway of how they are going to multiply the kingdom.
“Heart and Four Fields is an intentional platform that includes strategy for evangelism, discipleship and multiplication,” ABSC Church Planting Strategist Jay Ham said. “It’s strategy platform missionaries use all around the world. That is our hope. That individuals will be able to feel like they can evangelize, disciple, and multiply leaders.”
Blake Duvall, who began planting Be Church in Austin five years ago with his wife, Sarah, said the training aligns with their heart.
“I think this is going to be really beneficial because we have tried to avoid the whole institutionalized church setting and all that, not that there is anything wrong with that. It’s just not our heart and what we want our heart to be about. We’re about relationships and building relationships in the communities, in our families and neighborhoods. This is going to help us have some strategies moving forward that we’ll be able to see fruit from,” Duvall said.
Be Church currently meets in a building on the Duvalls’ property.
More than 60 people attended the training on Friday and Saturday.
In September, Arkansas Baptists are invited to a Send Network Arkansas one-day event to pray, worship, and strategize for gospel multiplication in their city.
The Sept. 5 event is “designed to inspire and equip planters, pastors, and Jesus followers to join in God’s activity of expanding God’s Kingdom through church planting. Through prayer, worship, learning, and collaboration, participants will discover practical tools and fresh vision for multiplying disciples and churches in their community.”
To register or for more information on the one-day event, click here.
