The number of people even within the Co-Mission Senior Staff who thought that God would provide the full complement for our first cohort of Antioch Planters could probably be counted on the fingers of one hand.
But remarkably and very wonderfully God has not only sent 14 men who have joined the Co-Mission pioneering church planting initiative, the Antioch Plan, applicants have even had to be turned away. This experience has been both a rebuke and a thrill because of God’s goodness.
The 14 men were commissioned in June at the recent Co-Mission Bible Festival, Revive. It was a session of great excitement. Hundreds heard the evangelistic heartbeat of these men as they described their reasons for wanting to join the scheme and their hopes for their intended plants.