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Part III

Part III. Congregationalizing Hispanics. 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). Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately Needed.

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  1. Part III Congregationalizing Hispanics

  2. Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately Needed • Reason # 1:TheSize Of The Hispanic Population In North America • 56 Million • (including Canada & Puerto Rico)

  3. 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.

  4. Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately Needed • StateRatio 1. Wisconsin 1:174,135 2. Washington 1:131,510 3. New York 1:116,505 4. New Jersey 1:114,335 5. New York 1:116,505 6. New Jersey 1:114,335 7. Minnesota 1:86,432 8. Oregon 1:77,678

  5. Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately Needed • StateRatio 9. Hawaii 1:63,209 10. Iowa 1:52,671 11. Utah 1:46,614 12. Illinois 1:46,215 13. Alaska 1:42,113 14. Arizona 1:41:474 15California 1:39,234

  6. Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately Needed State Ratio 16. Pennsylvania 1:37,522 17. Michigan 1:37,320 18. Indiana 1:33,650 19. Massachusetts 1:30,982 20. Montana 1:30,502 • Twenty two states in which the Hispanic church to population ratio is over 30,000

  7. Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately Needed • Challenge in 5 of top 10 Hispanic Cities • City Ratio • New York City 1:100,000 • Chicago 1:69,458 • Phoenix 1:60,458 • Los Angeles 1:40,276 • San Francisco 1:24,276

  8. 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:

  9. Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately Needed • County Hispanic Population 1. New York, Bronx County 748,438 2. New York, Kings County 506,553 3. New Jersey, Middlesex County 153,937 4. Wisconsin, Milwaukee County 129,933 5. California, Ventura County 82,617 6. Minnesota, Hennepin County 79,033 7. Washington, Pierce County 76,388 8. New Jersey, Bergin County 76,272 9. New York, Orange County 69,166

  10. Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately Needed • County Hispanic Population 10. Pennsylvania, Lehigh County 68,750 11. Washington, Snohomish County 66,383 12. New Jersey, Monmouth County 62,769 13. New Jersey, Morris County 58,211 14. Utah, Utah County 58,470 15. California, San Luis Obispo 57.931 16. New Jersey, Mercer County 57,061

  11. Powerful Reasons Why Hispanic Church Planting Is Desperately Needed • County Hispanic Population 17. New Jersey, Union County 49,611 18. Delaware, New Castle County 48,353 19. New Mexico, Sandoval County 48,279 • 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.

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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 community’s diverse cultural and religious idiosyncrasies…

  15. 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?

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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.

  20. 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

  21. 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.

  22. 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

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

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