New Orleans has long been called the “The City That Care Forgot”; we believe that church planting and compassion ministry can change that to “The City That God Transformed!” God is at work here in New Orleans and we are excited about the opportunity for gospel multiplication through church planting, compassion ministries, and student investment in one of the most unreached and broken cities in North America.
Over ten years ago, the North American Mission Board began the Send City initiative focusing resources on large metropolitan areas in North America where there was little gospel presence. With over a million people in the greater New Orleans area, along with incredible diversity both demographically and religiously, New Orleans was chosen to be one of those cities. Over the past ten years, we have seen the Lord use the stewardship that Southern Baptist have entrusted to us to bring people to Christ, plant multiplying churches, and to serve this city through many storms and trials. New Orleans is a hard place to do gospel ministry in, but the Lord has been faithful to use us to expand his kingdom here through the faithful witness of Southern Baptists.
Here in New Orleans, our work consists of three crucial parts. First, through Send Network we seek to help churches plant churches everywhere in our city for everyone. Currently, we have over 20 church plants that have just crossed the five-year mark. Second, through Send Relief we seek to meet human needs in the name of Jesus. We do this through partners like the Baptist Friendship House and disaster relief efforts. Finally, through our evangelism initiative, we help equip churches with resources to help everyday believers live on mission. This goes even further here in New Orleans. Recently, our work has expanded with the opening of our new NAMB Church Planting and Ministry Center. In partnership with NOBTS and Leavell College, we have a state-of-the-art meeting space here on the campus of NOBTS in the Fred Luter Jr. Student Center. In this space, we host a variety of events and conferences for both NAMB and NOBTS such as mission teams, faculty meetings, and even seminary classes. Our space is used to serve churches of the SBC.
At New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, we believe there is no better place to learn and do missions than New Orleans. Students who attend New Orleans will be trained in a post- Christian and cross-cultural context while serving alongside some of the best church planting practitioners in North America. We believe students who are trained and equipped for church planting in New Orleans, can plant churches anywhere in the world.
Send Network Regional Director, South Region
NAMB Church Planting Center Director
Senior Consultant, South Region and New Orleans Church Planting Center Coordinator
Assistant to George Ross
Send Network South Region Administrator
Ministry Assistant
NAMB Replant Specialist
NOBTS Adjunct Professor
Church Planting in New Orleans requires long-term, strategic partnerships. Our vision is to "Mobilize local churches as Sending and Supporting churches to plant churches and love the people of New Orleans, believing the gospel has the power to transform a city that care forgot." There are tremendous opportunities to partner in God’s kingdom mission to evangelize the lost, disciple the saved, and plant multiplying churches that will impact New Orleans and the world.
If you are a student looking to join a local church plant please contact:
Ryan Rice, New Orleans Send City Missionary
Lane Corley, Send Network State Director, Louisiana Lcorley@namb.net
If you are a student looking to join a local church plant, please reach out to The NAMB Church Planting Center on campus or contact one of the local plants directly
Send Network State Director, Louisiana
Send City Missionary, New Orleans
Send Relief is the compassion and mercy ministry arm of the North American Mission Board. Our goal is to equip churches to meet needs, providing an opportunity to build relationships and change lives by communicating the truth of the Gospel. We serve New Orleans by mobilizing teams to serve local partners and churches, and by providing ongoing support to ministries across the city focusing on areas such as poverty, human trafficking, refugee and international ministry, foster care and adoption, healthcare, and local community partnership.
Email Josh Durnell at jdurnell@sendrelief.org for more information.
Send Relief Affiliate Ministry Coordinator
The Send Network Multiplication Pipeline is designed to help churches raise up the next generation of missional servant leaders. The Pipeline includes simple assessment tools and a user-friendly online training system to equip participants for ministry in a post-Christian context. The Multiplication Pipeline Training has three levels of module-based content related to developing church planters, church planting teams, and missional leaders. The training will help students develop in areas such as spiritual formation, biblical knowledge, missional living, evangelism, missional leadership, disciple-making, ministry call, models of church planting, and more.
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is offering up to 25% of a degree for graduate students and 18 hours for undergraduate students participating in the Multiplication Pipeline Training. Students should contact the NAMB & NOBTS Church Planting Center to enroll in Pipeline Courses. The Pipeline Training Coach facilitates the class using the NAMB Pipeline Training material through their local church or ministry site.
Graduate
Semester 1
Mentoring in Gospel Ministry (3-6 hrs)
Evangelism (3 hours)
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation (3 hrs)
Semester 2
Mentoring in Gospel Ministry (3-6 hrs)
Church Leadership and Admin (3 hours)
Teaching or Preaching Practicum (3 Hours)
Undergraduate
Church Ministry Practicum (3 or 6 hours per semester, up to 3 semesters, 18 hours total)
The content of the Multiplication Pipeline Training can be completed for course credit through an approved Multiplication Pipeline Site that meets the NAMB Guidelines.
For approval of a New Site please use contact information below.
Contact Jaren Stauder at jstauder@namb.net .
Mobilization and Pipeline Specialist
Send Network, Director of Sending Churches
Send Network, Vice President of Planter Development
Send Network, President
Pastor of City Church, Tallahassee Florida
