Who knows? Maybe I’m right.

Sometimes you never know how significant a year is until centuries later. 1776, 1492, 33… those were all big years but nobody living in them understood how big they really were at the time they were living in them.

I do know that 100 years from now when our great grand kids are talking history, they might at least refer to 2008 as the year the AG turned a corner. Here are some reasons they might think that:

1. In 2008, the Church Multiplication Network was formally conceived, approved and launched as a General Council initiative to leverage the scale and assets of this fellowship to work together to reach as many Americans as possible through vigorous new communities of faith started all over America.

2. 10 BootCamps were held and hundreds of multipliers were trained to start new churches and help existing churches learn how to multiply.

3. 43 churches were funded and launched through the efforts of the AG Trust and the CMN matching fund project.  These 43 churches have connected with over 70,000 previously “un” or “de” churched individuals, recorded 955 confessions of faith, baptized 189 folks in water and are giving an average of 11% of their income to missions.

4. The initial leadership team for the Church Multiplication Network has been selected and activated. I’ll be announcing our “starting lineup” in a blog post in the near future. Suffice it to say, God’s blessed us with a great team and we are ready to for what’s next!

I’m extremely grateful to the visionary executive leadership team that God has given the AG fellowship. It is an extraordinary privilege to work with George Wood, Alton Garrison, John Palmer, Doug Clay, Zollie Smith and John Bueno. Along with the Executive Presbytery team, these outstanding leaders have taken a bold step in facilitating and financing the creation of the Church Multiplication Network.

Tomorrow, we all start another trip around the sun. By God’s grace, it’s going to be a good one!