The purpose of this post is to put out the call to Lincoln residents: if you are interested in helping to plant a new church, we need your help!

For most of the past 3 years, Coram Deo has been praying about helping to plant new churches in the capital city. Many Coram Deo folks have friends and family in Lincoln, and in fact we have had Lincoln residents drive to Omaha every Sunday to be part of our church gathering. Though there are some good churches in Lincoln, many more are needed.

So it was clearly an answer to prayer last spring when I got a random email from a guy who said, “I think God is calling me to plant an Acts 29 church in Lincoln.” That random guy has become a good friend, and it has been a privilege to assist him in processing God’s call to church planting. Todd Bumgarner is currently attending Covenant Seminary in St. Louis and will move to Lincoln at the end of this year to start 2 Pillars Church. He has passed the rigorous Acts 29 church planter assessment process and is currently progressing through a church planting internship at Summit Community Church in STL (in addition to his day job designing guided missiles at Boeing).

We made brief mention of this Lincoln church plant on the blog last year. Now, it’s time to start gathering resources – people, money, contacts, friends, and ideas.

If you live in Lincoln and have even a passing interest in helping to start a new church, we want to talk to you. If you already belong to a good church but would be willing to pray and encourage a new gospel-centered church plant, we want to talk to you. If you enjoy giving financially and would like to see if this effort is worth your investment, we want to talk to you. If you are a Coram Deo member and you want to move to Lincoln to help Todd and Meghan launch this church, we want to talk to you.

You can contact Todd directly via the new 2 Pillars Blog. You’ll be impressed with his engineer-like precision – if you have a question, he’ll answer it, trust me. We are praying for a launch team of 50-100 people, plus some significant financial donors to help get this thing off the ground.

You could keep going to the church you currently attend. And God may want you to. But if it’s a well-established church, chances are they’ll keep right on going without you. On the other hand, your impact in helping to launch a new church will be immediate and significant. So don’t jump on board if God isn’t calling you. But do consider whether this might be the best investment of your time, talent, and gifts for the glory of God and the good of Lincoln.

Oh, and if you’re reading this and you know someone in Lincoln… send them to this blog!