October 2025
Donor & Partner Update
What Your Partnership is Accomplishing: 2 Baptisms Per Day & More
We are so grateful for you. Whether you're a Partner Church pioneering new ways to reach your community or an individual donor investing in Kingdom multiplication—your partnership is fueling something extraordinary.
The stories we're about to share flow directly from your faithfulness. Every baptism, every breakthrough, every church catching the vision—it's all connected to your commitment. Thank you for refusing to settle for anything less than Kingdom multiplication. Thank you for believing that local churches can and will reach their communities with the gospel.
We're energized by what God is doing through this partnership.
Please take a couple of minutes to hear from Doug Parks, Intentional Churches co-founder, on why the partnership of churches and individual donors matters for Great Commission accomplishment.
The Momentum is Real—And It's Accelerating
God is moving in powerful ways through churches committed to Great Commission multiplication. These aren't just statistics—these are real people coming to faith, real churches experiencing breakthroughs, and real Kingdom impact. Here are just a few highlights:
Salty Church in Ormond Beach, FL is averaging 2 baptisms per day in 2025. The Lord is adding to their number daily!
North Terrace Christian Church in Zanesville, OH has experienced 20% year-over-year attendance growth for over 18 months straight with record baptisms!
Eastside Christian Church (Southern California and beyond) distributed 10,000 "For the One" bracelets across their 7 campuses—adults and kids specifically naming and praying for their ones.
Our Activate Experience Digital Cohort currently has 14 churches whose teams are getting aligned and excited as they learn the fundamentals of the Intentional Churches toolbox together.
Here's a note from Adventure Christian Church in Kentucky: "In addition to growth in connections, we've had baptisms for first-time believers 4 weeks in a row. We have 2 more coming up on the 14th and 21st—at least one baptism on 6 out of 7 Sundays. Two from kids ministry, two from student ministry, and two adults."
A Story That Captures It All
Perhaps nothing captures the heart of this movement better than what happened at Sherwood Oaks Christian Church on Easter Sunday. Check out this powerful story from Pastor Shawn Green about Pablo:
"Pablo asked me, 'Is it sacrilegious to get baptized on Easter?' And then, soaking wet after his baptism in front of 1,200 people, he prayed, 'Jesus, help us go out from here to reach people like me.'"
This is what multiplication looks like. Pablo went from being someone's One to immediately owning the Great Commission for himself.
How You Can Partner with Us
To complete the current OneLife project—which introduces a suite of new tools and support for church leaders—we still need to raise $500,000 over the next 18 months.
Here's how your investment fuels the movement:
Every $500 gift provides scholarship money to help smaller and lower-income churches engage with the Intentional Churches toolbox.
$2,500 helps publish participant workbooks for relational evangelism empowerment. Tens of thousands of church members will be trained through these workbooks over the next 2 years.
$10,000 helps finalize the training packages for church leaders to run a non-believer panel in a weekend service (we call it a One Aware Panel). This strategy inspires congregants to get into evangelism training experiences.
$25,000 helps finalize production on the OneLife Devotional Book. We believe hundreds of thousands of congregants will be reading this devotional over the coming 2 years.
What's Coming Next
We're deploying tools that will equip thousands more churches to live out the Great Commission intentionally:
Radical Alignment Book (October 2025)
Makes the case for EVERYONE in a church owning the Great Commission personally
Radical Alignment Assessments (Q1 2026)
Provides churches with insights into how many of their congregation own the Great Commission. Early findings from beta testing are powerful: When congregants are active in relational evangelism, giving, serving, and general church engagement all increase! The assessment highlights the gaps within individuals and churches, and the insights are leading to focused action.
OneLife Congregant Devotional Book (Q1 2026)
Inspires and equips congregants in modern relational evangelism
OneLife Campaign Playbook (January 2026)
Provides a guide for churches to run a 12-month relational evangelism campaign that inspires and equips the board, staff, and congregation to own the Great Commission
These resources create a complete system for churches ready to mobilize their congregation around reaching their Ones—helping them assess where to start and where to go next.
This Fall: Our Biggest Season Yet
16+ events scheduled for fall 2025
Estimated 1,000+ leaders attending across hundreds of churches
Intentional Churches Conference 2026
May 5-6, 2026 at Northside Christian Church, New Albany, IN (Estimated 800+ leaders)
This is the season where everything we've been building comes together to fuel widespread transformation in new believers and long-time Christ followers throughout the country.
How You Can Pray
For Ones like Pablo being prayed for and pursued—that God would prepare hearts as thousands of church members focus on reaching their Ones
For breakthrough at our fall events—that 1,000+ church leaders would catch the vision of radical alignment
For stamina and clarity for our team as we finalize major resources and prepare for our biggest fall season yet
For Intentional Churches Conference 2026 preparation—as we expect 800+ leaders to gather
Thank You
You are more than partners—you are co-laborers in this movement.
Every baptism, every One reached, every church leader equipped—it all flows from churches and donors like you who refuse to settle for anything less than Kingdom multiplication.
We're honored to serve alongside you in this eternal work.
For the One who does not yet know Jesus,
Doug Parks
Co-founder, Intentional Churches