Columbia’s Anthem Church is a fairly young Missouri Baptist church that’s putting an emphasis on missions, missions training and church planting.
Though it was a church plant itself just seven years ago, it’s already starting to grow other churches and recently sent members to Mankato, Minnesota, to aid a new work in the hometown of Minnesota State University.
A member of the Heart of Missouri Baptist Association, Anthem, is also a Salt Network church. The network plants churches and student ministries in university cities.
Don Combs, Anthem’s Deacon of Missions, explained that his church was founded through the network, so members wanted to help plant the new Great Oaks Church in Mankato.
‘Core team’
Anthem sent a five-person team there in June to do initial community outreach, then a 12-person team in July to serve the new church as its core members met.
July “was the very first gathering of (Great Oak’s) core team,” Combs said. “It allowed them to be all together and to start laying the foundation of what they are, about who they are.”
The meeting also allowed the 40 Great Oak members to see and use their new space in a Christian academy for the first time.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Michael Smith and originally published by the Pathway.
