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I get a I get a pull I was nervous about the comments after today about the iPad so I've just worn my iPhone up um uh look the uh a couple of years ago we had Quan sitting on this stage being interviewed by uh Dan Lee I think we've got a photo of Dan Lee uh with he was with Josh Allen uh Josh's at lame Way Church Quan was telling us about uh his heart to reach the second and third generation Vietnamese people who he knew who had been walking away his peers his colleagues who'd been walking away from

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the church because there was nothing for them his Hope was to plan a church uh he didn't know Josh 6 months before this he decided to do a church planning residency to train at lame way to learn what a healthy Church looked like and then to plant out of that in order to reach these Vietnamese kids young adults who didn't know Jesus and who were walking away 6 weeks ago uh uh Quan launched Anchor Church down in sunshine out of lame Way Church now don't get too excited about that clearly you fired

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up he here yeah are thank you thank you okay keep in mind that response when I tell you this story now uh about 6 months ago uhq was contacted out of the blue uh by a young Vietnamese kid he led in youth group 10 years ago he was intrigued about the gospel he started coming to the launch Team meetings he started coming to the meet Jesus meetings with Josh on one of

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the last nights Josh asked people to pray the prayer of repentance which he did he's become a Christian now that is the proper response now our our vision at Rich Australia is to reach the lost our vision for planting is to see 300 churches you can see it here on the screen 300 churches by 2030 that's a lot of churches we're currently at 145 well hopefully by the end of 2024 we'll be at 145 churches

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that leaves about 155 churches to PL in the next 6 years that's a lot of churches isn't it now you might be thinking well that look at that graph that's impossible to reach 155 churches can I say if that's what you're thinking impossible to get there we are sitting in a room where every single one of us believes that God raised Jesus from the dead The Impossible every single one of us is here because we are convinced that

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we were dead and we are now alive in Christ impossible we are not the people to be talking about the impossible so here's a second that you might be think well it's improbable then you're pass ing language it's improbable okay I'll take that I'll take a swing at that one let me add even more impr probability to this if we're going to get to 155 Church plants we're going to need a whole bunch of leaders not just the church Planters I've estimated you can come and check my math later I've

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estimated we're going to probably need about 800 leaders in the next six years to plant churches to fill teams in growing churches to fill vacancies to feel people stepping out of ministry into different Ministries we're going to need 800 more gospel workers 800 more that's intimidating isn't it uh a few years ago there was a study uh put out by ncls exponential some of our friends uh put together this study and did a little bit of a church planning uh take on it you'll see here

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I'm happy to put this on the app if you've got that you'll see here the study they did from 2017 to 2021 don't get baffled by the Numbers the number you want to look at there is at 5% down the bottom now that is 5% that is five churches planted in for every hundred churches but that's over 5 years so I'm going to do Mass on stage I think if I take five% divided by five that will give me 1% 1% annually one church for every hundred being planted in the ncls study that was

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done when we ran the numbers for the network recently the average rate of multiplication across the network this network here from 2019 to this point right now is 4% annually now that is an amazing work of God even during Co even during Co now if we keep going on that trajectory to 2030 we will plant 300 churches what's more the 800 leaders

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that we need if every single Church in our Network raises up one Apprentice that they send into full-time gospel Ministry we will have more than enough leaders just one just one there's on Monday Ray did amazing talk at multiplier church planning day he had this great quote let me put on the screen it said the LIE is this that we believe in a God who

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can but probably won't that resonated with me I keep talking about this 300 but there's something in the back of my head that thinks we probably won't get there he probably won't do it and I want to change that and say actually I think he is doing it in fact I think that number is too conservative but that's for next year's talk okay uh let me put this picture on the screen uh this is a uh this is a sewing machine ice to see these my grandparents

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house uh if you're younger than me you'll see these in Cafe uh hidden behind pointless plants and ladders that go nowhere um but uh on these old sewing machines you can see down the bottom that that wheel there's this flywheel so you know you bang the thing in the wheel gets momentum and if you don't know what a flywheel is I assume you do CU most people in here are Engineers but for the for the two or three people who have relational skills I'll explain what a fight with is um so you hit the wheel it

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builds my momentum and it evens things out it stores kinetic energy and then it delivers it evenly it evens out the bumps it evens it out can I say what is happening here what has happened over the last 15 20 years is this building of momentum this flywheel that's what's happening that God can do more than we ask or imagine it is happening look across this room 1300 people here this week across denominations with this shared gospel

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conviction about reaching Australia that is the work of God this is not triumphalism this is just acknowledging what God is doing at this point this moment in history and we are seeing we've seen tonight with the men's on stage talking about the partners partnership with local churches to plant this church we saw from the mugges and from the franchin sending the kits a partnership in the gospel we saw at Lano with Quan and Josh and Sarah Allen sending anchor out it is this humble

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gospel partnership that sits at the heart of this network in order to reach Australia and that is how we will get there I'm over time so two things one if you are thinking about planting can I say this you are not alone in this You are not alone in this this is a partnership Across the Nation to reach the nation so if you are curious ask the question you will not be alone in asking the question secondly for people who are

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thinking about planting can I say we are better doing this together we have over 350 churches at the moment in the network to draw from The Experience on to learn from a flywheel to even out the challenges to help us move forward so come and talk to us about that we don't want to leave here this week excited but without knowing what steps to take to reach Australia