Church Planting

Our newly developed church planter’s team had a planning retreat this month.  They slipped away to a remote location to fully focus spiritually as they planned their activities for the coming year.  Our team is made up of five men. Two of the men are...

On Sunday, January 30th, our church auditorium was almost filled with our usual church members, plus our camp participants and their parents. We invited the children who participated in any of the three weeks of Bible camp this year along with their families to join...

We are thrilled to announce that this past month five couples made the decision to legalize their marriage and ask God to become the central focus of their marriage.  As we have mentioned before, free union relationships are the norm in Honduras and culturally acceptable. ...

By: Kris Bridges This pandemic may have brought strict lockdowns and exacerbated already dire, impoverished conditions, but it has also awakened the Church to new ways to share God’s love. Although our church has not been able to gather since March, God has provided many ways...

Three years ago, Mike and Kris Bridges joined the MUR team with a focus on planting a new church in Corquín, a small town about an hour from Santa Rosa. For the first year and a half, the new Christians as well as many seekers...

by Phil Waldron   Joel Rainey wrote an article in which he said, “It is easier to birth a baby than it is to raise the dead.” His article lists five things that must be done if a declining church is going to “turn around.” Anyone who...

by Caleb Gossett Revolutions begin when people can no longer sit by and accept their circumstances. These people band together with a common vision and goal, using their passion and numbers to instigate change. These big shifts that have occurred in history did not occur overnight,...

We sat down with the leader of our Church Planting team to get an inside look at what it takes to plant self-led, self-sustaining, and self-replicating churches.   Q: How has our method of planting churches changed in recent years? A: In the beginning we would enter a...

by Phil Waldron Here at Mission UpReach we believe and practice a core value that states, “Our job is to teach and train people to become members of self-led, self-sustaining and self- reproducing communities of faith that serve as the Lord’s church in their respective communities.” One...

Members of the Mission UpReach Team leaving isn't normally cause for celebration, but in the case of Jormar Ramos and Richar Garcia, it is just that: a celebration. Obviously, it is bittersweet that we are losing two exceptional members of the Church Planting Team, but...

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