At the Imagine One Day Conference in January, church leaders were challenged to think differently about discipleship, city engagement and church planting.
Organized by Brian Hook, senior pastor of Aspire Church in Tucson, Arizona, the conference presented successful church planting principles that Hook has seen work since the mid-2000s.
‘More focused’
About 70 church leaders from southern Arizona and Phoenix, as well as a few from Las Vegas and Alabama, attended the conference at 22nd Street Baptist Church on Jan. 14. The conference has been held in Tucson the last three years.
“We honed in on four principles … more focused on the essence of church planting,” said Hook, who is also a church planting catalyst for the North American Mission Board’s Send Network, a conference sponsor.
In the mid-2000s, Hook, along with conference speakers Bob Roberts Jr. and Omar Reyes, developed these principles when they worked together at Northwood Church in Keller, Texas. During that time, they saw God plant more than 60 churches, Hook said.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Johanna Willett and originally published by Arizona’s Portraits.
