May 2025
Partner Update
Impact Snapshot
Thanks to your support, here’s a glimpse of what God is doing:
1,000+ churches have now engaged with Intentional Churches
30+ denominations represented
2,000+ church members participating in relational evangelism through the OneLife Project (still in alpha!)
IC churches are now baptizing over 10% of their average weekend attendance
Intentional Churches Conference 25 Highlights
The 2025 conference marked a powerful tipping point for this movement:
550 attendees from 133 church + orgs (up 30% from 2024!)
49,680 meals packed for impoverished families in the Louisville area in a team building exercise
Exclusive Radical Alignment book + assessment beta launched
Early chapters of our upcoming Congregant book released
One Community platform launched with 572 members
Over 2,500 interactions in the first few weeks
👉 You can join the One Community today
A Movement Backed by Partners
We were blown away by the response at our Partner Church Breakfast—over 40 leaders from 20 churches gathered. First Baptist Orlando pledged $100,000 to help fuel the mission!
We invite you to join them by:
Praying about a financial contribution in the coming year
Praying for the Ones who will come to know Jesus’ loving salvation through our work together.
Looking Ahead
Here’s what’s next:
Rolling out OneLife relational evangelism tools to churches this fall (currently being shaped in 125 test churches!)
Preparing future phases on stewardship of time and money
Accelerating marketing and sales momentum
Continuing to build collaborative relationships with ministries like Billy Graham Center, Alpha USA, the Palau ministry, and many others.
Also worth celebrating: our core ministry is thriving—sales are up 12% over our record year in 2022!
The growing impact of the ministry is difficult to capture in a short update but it is palatable with the IC team and those of you close to the ministry.
Hear directly from a senior pastor of a 100-year-old church impacted by this work:
Please join us in praying for:
Congregants engaging in relational evangelism
Wisdom in producing the next wave of resources
Donors to continue stepping in generously
More churches to join the movement
We are deeply grateful for your partnership. Together, we’re helping churches take intentional steps toward the Great Commission—and the fruit is already showing.
For the One who does not yet know Jesus,
Doug Parks
Co-founder, Intentional Churches
