Your church is one of 100 congregations shaping the Golden Triangle Baptist Network. These churches come in all shapes and sizes, from a large, multi-campus congregation to smaller rural fellowships and everything in between. They engage at some level every people group resident in our communities.
With 100 churches, I often hear the question, “Does my church matter?” I answer with a resounding yes!
God has blessed the Network with many that we might call “foundation churches.” These historically strong congregations have helped dive the Network since the beginning. Generous with their finances as well as their leadership, their partnership enables GTBN to fulfill our role as a “catalyst, coming alongside of churches to help them fulfill the Great Commission.”
But each of our churches are important. GTBN is as sustained by the smaller congregations as by our larger churches, with many of our smaller fellowships proportionally among our strongest supporting congregations. Smaller congregations, with their lower overhead costs, actually set us up for the future should churches lose the favored tax status we currently enjoy. They reach a people who other churches are not connecting with.
Our historically African American and Hispanic congregations help us to bridge gaps hindering our gospel witness, enabling a ministry committed to seeing a healthy church for every person in every place. While new churches allow us to grow disciples among peoples we’ve been missing.
Together we engage the Great Commission, sharpening one another for ministry across SETX, collaborating to help one another through crises and disaster, and cooperating to extend the gospel beyond US boarders to places like Belize, and even Israel.
Could we do it without you? Maybe. But even so, we’re better together.
Thank you for your partnership with GTBN. As I said, your church matters!
Blessings,
Bro. Jim