Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed Reason # 1: The Size Of The Hispanic Population In North
America 56 Million (including Canada & Puerto Rico)
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed Reason # 2 Hispanic Growth Is Outpacing Church Planting Rate
Year Ch to Population Ratio 2002 1:13,856. 2011 1:16,181.
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed State Ratio 1. Wisconsin 1:174,135 2. Washington 1:131,510
3. New York1:116,505 4. New Jersey1:114,335 5. New York1:116,505 6.
New Jersey1:114,335 7. Minnesota1:86,432 8. Oregon1:77,678
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed State Ratio 9. Hawaii1:63,209 10. Iowa1:52,671 11.
Utah1:46,614 12. Illinois1:46,215 13. Alaska1:42,113 14.
Arizona1:41:474 15California1:39,234
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed StateRatio 16. Pennsylvania1:37,522 17. Michigan1:37,320 18.
Indiana1:33,650 19. Massachusetts1:30,982 20. Montana1:30,502
Twenty two states in which the Hispanic church to population ratio
is over 30,000
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed Challenge in 5 of top 10 Hispanic Cities CityRatio New York
City1:100,000 Chicago1:69,458 Phoenix1:60,458 Los Angeles1:40,276
San Francisco1:24,276
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed Reason #3: The Number Of Hispanic Un- churched Areas There
are 19 counties with a Hispanic population ranging from 48,000 to
748,000 with no Hispanic Baptist churches:
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed CountyHispanic Population 1. New York, Bronx County748,438
2. New York, Kings County506,553 3. New Jersey, Middlesex
County153,937 4. Wisconsin, Milwaukee County129,933 5. California,
Ventura County82,617 6. Minnesota, Hennepin County79,033 7.
Washington, Pierce County76,388 8. New Jersey, Bergin County76,272
9. New York, Orange County69,166
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed CountyHispanic Population 10. Pennsylvania, Lehigh County
68,750 11. Washington, Snohomish County66,383 12. New Jersey,
Monmouth County62,769 13. New Jersey, Morris County58,211 14. Utah,
Utah County58,470 15. California, San Luis Obispo57.931 16. New
Jersey, Mercer County57,061
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed CountyHispanic Population 17. New Jersey, Union County49,611
18. Delaware, New Castle County48,353 19. New Mexico, Sandoval
County48,279 Richie Stanley, Research Report, Hispanic Trends
Population and Southern Baptist Congregations, Center for Missional
Research, North American Mission Board, April, 2013. This is based
on the latest information that has been reported.
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Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately
Needed Reason #4: The Hispanic Population In Major Cities 20
Million Hispanics in the 32 Send Cities targeted by NAMB;
14,344,345 in 30 other cities with a Hispanic population ranging
from 100,000 to 2 Million Almost 35 Million in Major Cities
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Strategic Considerations # 1: The Absolute necessity of
concerted prayer Reaching Hispanics (with their socio- religious
background) is a difficult task Many will face pressure, alienation
from their families There are many obstacles Prayer is absolutely
essential
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Strategic Considerations # 2: Need of Culturally Informed
Strategies Catholic scholars maintain that a principal cause for
defection of Hispanics from the Catholic Church is that the church
is not equipped or structured to meet the diverse needs of the
growing number of Hispanic believers. They insist that the church
lacks sufficient numbers of Spanish-speaking clergy who understand
and appreciate the Latino/a communitys diverse cultural and
religious idiosyncrasies
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Strategic Considerations # 2: Need of Culturally Informed
Strategies Two significant questions for SBC 1. Do we have
culturally informed strategies at every level of SBC life
(churches, associations, state conventions, SBC agencies) to reach
Hispanics? 2. Are there sufficient Hispanics in empowered positions
in SBC agencies to provide the input needed to have culturally
informed strategies?
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Strategic Considerations # 2: Need of Culturally Informed
Strategies Those who attend Hispanic-Oriented Churches: 77% foreign
born Latinos 48% native born Latinos. There is a crucial need to
start Hispanic-Oriented Churches across North America
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Strategic Considerations # 2: Need of Culturally Informed
Strategies Evangelical and Pentecostal churches become an effective
bridge for Latin American Christianity, which is shaken by the
challenges of modernity. In other words, these new faith
communities provide a new orientation for ordinary people seeking
to deal with the stresses involved in transition involved in the
rapid change brought about by immigration, urbanization, and
secularization. Source: Miguel de la Torre, Hispanic American
Religious Cultures, 366
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Strategic Considerations Strategic Consideration # 3: The need
for specialized types of churches to reach all segments of Hispanic
Population 1. Spanish Language, Hispanic Culture Churches 2.
English Language Hispanic Culture Churches 3. English-Speaking,
Anglo-Cultural Churches with Hispanic Culture Sensitivity
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Strategic Considerations Strategic Consideration #4: The
Hispanic population is experiencing exponential growth therefore
exponential church planting methodologies are desperately needed.
Strategic Consideration #5: The Use Of Small Groups In Church
Planting.
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Strategic Considerations Strategic Consideration #6: The need
for all churches to be involved in church planting Strategic
Consideration #7: The strategic importance of partner churches
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Vital Recommendations 1. That a national strategy with bold
goals be designed and communicated to reach unprecedented numbers
of Hispanics and gather them into biblically sound and culturally
relevant congregations.
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Vital Recommendations 2011 Hispanic population 51,875,706. This
gave us a ratio of one Hispanic Baptist church for every 16,181
Hispanics. 544 new Hispanic churches a year are needed over the
next 10 years to arrive at a ratio of 1 Hispanic church for every
6,000 Hispanics
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Vital Recommendations 2. That Hispanic pastors and churches
intentionally seek to partner with SBC entities (NAMB, State
Conventions, Associations) to reach the 34 million Hispanics in the
urban areas of North America, including the 20 million in the Send
Cities and the 17 million in non-urban areas.
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Vital Recommendations 3. That SBC entities continue to expand
their networks and partnerships with the Hispanic churches and
church planting centers that are being most effective in training
people to start multiplying congregations.
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Vital Recommendations 4. That the officers of the Executive
Committee be instrumental in the formation of a Hispanic Leadership
Network for the purposes of communication, encouragement, and
promotion in church planting and other aspects of Hispanic
work.
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Vital Recommendations 5. That all individuals, churches and
entities involved in Hispanic Church Planting continue to study the
best church planting practices in Hispanic setting and take these
into account in designing its Hispanic church planting strategies,
especially those that focus on church multiplication.
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Vital Recommendations 6. That Churches, Associations, State
Conventions, and NAMB continue to utilize a variety of church
planting models in order to reach the various segments of the
Hispanic population with the gospel.
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Vital Recommendations 7. That established churches across North
America adopt Unreached and Under-reached Hispanic Groups living in
areas where there are no Hispanic churches (e.g., counties with no
Hispanic churches) and areas where the ratio of Hispanic churches
per Hispanic population is over 50,000.
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Vital Recommendations Conclusion: In light of the powerful
reasons listed above acknowledging the explosive growth of the
Hispanic population and the fact that there are hundreds of
Hispanic communities without churches to reach them in their own
language and culture, the members of the Hispanic Advisory Council
earnestly pray that all Southern Baptist churches and entities
commit to an unprecedented effort to reach lost Hispanics with the
Gospel message and enable them to start vibrant congregations thus
contributing to truly reaching North America for Christ.