Welcome to another edition of the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris and we're

going to have a special discussion today on church planning. This is something that I've heard about from a lot of people who are

interested in this because you can't find a church or you're in an area and it's just you know you have the burden

you want to plan a church because maybe the area is so dry of theological teaching and maybe that person's you or maybe it's someone else and without a seminary education a lot of people wonder how can I do this what's the process and so

the special guess we have today to talk about this because he has planted churches is

pastor Joel webin pastor Joel thank you so much for joining us.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

And we've, I've been on your podcast twice now before,

and we're gonna get together real soon in person.

Why don't you tell everyone a little bit about that before we get into the subject?

Great, yeah, so we're having a conference.

It's going to be on March 12th, so that's a Saturday and then John will also stay over and preach for us on the

Lord's Day at my church covenant Bible Church on March 13th that Sunday so

Saturday Sunday it's gonna be from three to seven p.m. just back to back to back four sessions, four hour long sessions, 3 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 12th, and then the Lord's Day. Anybody wants to come is welcome to join us.

Covenant Bible Church again is the name of my church.

We're in Georgetown, Texas is where we meet.

That's about 45 minutes north of Austin.

So we're close enough to Austin have a ministry opportunity,

economic opportunity, but in a separate county,

so far enough from Austin so that our police don't get defunded.

So, you know, so we've got the kind of some of the protections of Texas conservative state,

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