Mobilizing Trained Disciples To Multiply Healthy Churches Together.
Synergy
In 2019, 4,500 Protestant churches in North America closed their doors for good, while only 3,000 Protestant churches were started. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, making an already-concerning situation worse. The Synergy Initiative seeks to help reverse this alarming trend.
Synergy is the combined power of a group working together that is greater than the power of individuals working separately. This initiative aims to help students plan strategically to graduate from Cedarville, go together with others from this place, and invest their energies, talents, and efforts in planting, revitalizing, and multiplying churches. As Cedarville graduates join up with other church members who are equipped to do the work of ministry, the combined effect of their efforts will accomplish, by God’s grace, abundantly more than only a couple of pastors in a church doing all of the work on their own. Thus, the goal is to equip students to leave Cedarville University ready to help establish and strengthen local churches throughout the nation and around the world.
The Synergy Initiative
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2/3 Two-thirds of 22- to 23-year-old adults stop attending church regularly for at least a year.
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-1,500 In 2019, roughly 3,000 churches were started – but 4,500 were closed.
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42% 42% of worshippers at churches planted between 2008–2014 had never attended a church before or had not in many years.
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Testimonials
Listen to students share about their work to multiply churches through short-term Global Outreach trips.
Meet The Director
Dr. Jeremy Kimble
Dr. Jeremy Kimble serves as Associate Professor of Theology at Cedarville University. He is a member of University Baptist Church in Beavercreek, Ohio, and preaches and teaches regularly in churches, camps, and conference settings. He has written several books and numerous articles on topics related to theology, preaching, discipleship, and leadership. His desire is to know God and make Him known that the church might be strengthened and multiply.
As Director of The Synergy Initiative he works with Cedarville University students, pastors, and local churches to mobilize trained disciples to multiply healthy churches together. If you would like to inquire about Dr. Kimble speaking at an event for your church or ministry, please complete this contact form.
Mission and Vision of the Center
Mobilizing students with the Word of God to strategically go and minister together for healthy church multiplication.
Networks
As you graduate and move to a new place it can be daunting to know how to connect to a local church and to know if that church is doctrinally sound and committed to multiplying. Below are some links that provide ideas of churches committed to these realities in the place you will be moving to. While these networks provide a helpful starting point, each church should be assessed carefully as you look to join.
Resources
Learn the work of making disciples and multiplying churches.
These training videos will guide you to consider how you are to engage as a disciple yourself, lead your family, and grow in character, convictions, and competencies, as well as to understand your role in the Great Commission. While you can certainly watch alone, you'll get the most out of the training by engaging the content with others, especially fellow members of your local church.
Access More Church Planting Resources!
Engage on a deeper level as you seek to grow in Christlike character, build up the Kingdom, and make disciples. These biblically sound, blog-based resources support the Foundations video training, so you can find out more about the state of our culture and arm yourself with biblical truth to reach the lost.