L10-2: What We’re About
We’ve been praying, and God has been answering. We’re “praying earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers to his harvest field” (Luke 10:2) in the Mid-Atlantic, and He is doing just that. We now have planters of 13 congregations at work in our Diocese who have been in the field for 2 years or less. Three more are just beginning. We’ve targeted 26 new cities in our region for plants in the coming years. The number of new plants is accelerating each year.
We’ve been praying, and God has been answering. We’re “praying earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers to his harvest field” (Luke 10:2) in the Mid-Atlantic, and He is doing just that. We now have planters of 13 congregations at work in our Diocese who have been in the field for 2 years or less. Three more are just beginning. We’ve targeted 26 new cities in our region for plants in the coming years. The number of new plants is accelerating each year.
We are L10-2, and we are the Great Commission Committee (GCC). The GCC is our canonical name, and L10-2 is the new name we have adopted for the church planting efforts of the GCC and the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic. We’re a church planting network. L10-2 is also the name of this website, www.L10-2.org. Our new name reflects our commitment to praying in the harvest, which is as plentiful as it has ever been in our region. As it states in our list of values on our Info page, “we are prayer-based and prayer-driven.”
We prayed for Baltimore, and God brought Steve Holt and Holy Table Church. We prayed for Charlottesville, and God brought Dave Petty and Crossroads Church. We’re praying for Richmond, and we see some new activity there. We’ve formed a new Cross-cultural Task Force to pray for and reach new immigrants, and God is bringing planters to plant in Korean, Spanish, and Urdu. More on that soon.
It’s not easy to keep up with all that God is doing! Fortunately, God has brought together an extraordinarily gifted and dedicated team to facilitating the mission of Church Planting in our Diocese. Bishop John Guernsey is visionary, dedicated, and hands-on. Tom Herrick is the premiere Anglican planting consultant and coach on our continent. Rick Wright is a wise counselor and skilled leader. Mal Young is a behind-the-scenes doer and encourager. Kathy Galvan is a sharp administrator who supports me in our work for the Diocese. I chair the group. Together, this group is our Executive Committee. The rest of the team – Joe Acanfora, Jay Baylor, Patrick Cunningham, Alex Leighton, and Pamela Meeks– ably and diligently labor to contribute to this work.
Why are we doing this? Our Vision is “to saturate the Mid-Atlantic region with a thriving network of churches in the Anglican tradition that are biblical, missional, and reproducing, thereby helping to spark a Holy Spirit-led revival in our region.”
Please join me in praying that God would use our new website to attract, encourage, and equip hundreds of potential church planters and planting partners to plant new churches in our region and beyond. To God be the glory.+
by Clancy Nixon