By joining God where He is at work, we believe He is developing an urban church-planting model by starting small group Bible studies, gathering these Bible studies together into our Church Planting Center to form a church. This Center is located in an area where 650,000 people and is the largest region of Kharkov. People gather in community playgrounds in the many apartment complexes, which exist in this region. In these communities, we are doing relational evangelism and meeting the needs of people, which allow us to build relationships and involve them in Bible study. We believe that using this type of model and using principles from this type of model can help us reach other cities in Kharkov.

In the past, church-planting strategy has been aimed at starting churches in the villages. However, statistics show that the population of the villages is decreasing because people from the villages are moving into the cities in hopes to better provide for themselves.

You will join an existing church planting team that is currently starting churches formed out of cell group Bible studies facilitated through relational evangelism. Multiple cell groups are combined together to form a church using a church planting/training center as a place to become self-supportive, self-teaching, self-expressive, self-propagating, and self-governing. A church planting/training center called New Hope Center, which is located in the Saltavka region of Kharkov, Ukraine, is the hub for the development of this network of reproducing cell churches, and it is designed as a model for planting churches in urban areas.

In this culture, there is a vacuum of leadership among men in small group Bible studies and churches. Due to this leadership void, cell group churches are not being planted fast enough to foster a Church Planting Movement. For this reason, finding and developing godly men is critical for the completion of a Church Planting Movement.

Each member of our church planting team models leadership assists in the training and development of cell members, watches as new leaders take on responsibilities, and leaves these leaders equipped to reproduce multiple cell groups and leaders. Relational evangelism, developing cell group Bible studies, and combining these cell groups together using a church planting center, which could be facilitated through existing church structures, to form churches is the method of reaching these cities and urban areas for Christ and achieving a Church Planting Movement.

Each team member participates in annual meetings scheduled by the Regional Offices, Field Offices, and the Baptist Union.

Each team member is expected to attend monthly staff meetings, as well as, any other special seminars or conferences scheduled by the Strategy Coordinator.

Each team member is expected to participate and lead in weekly team meetings and attend a local national church.