McCoy’s Mission to Suburbia

By
Jason Robertson
Posted in: Church Planting, Missional


I want to thank Steve McCoy for this online list of resources for churches in Suburbia! I was in San Diego a few weeks ago meeting with Dick Kaufmann (from Redeemer Church NY) and 14 other church planters who are in the urban San Diego area. I shared with them that I have been looking for resources to help me with church plants in the suburbs — most stuff that is being written today is very urban focused. They agreed and we had a great discussion about the different challenges suburban churches face.

One of the biggest differences is the fact that suburbs do not possess real identities like cities do. People do not have a real pride for the “city” — infact, they may drive through 5 zip codes just getting to WalMart. In our church people are from at least a half dozen different towns. When you talk to them about their favorite city, they speak of San Diego, Newport, etc. They just don’t want to live there. They live in the suburbs so they can have a bigger house, a better school, and less traffic.

I will check back often to this list to find resources to help me gain wisdom/understanding of what suburbia church plants are facing.

Guard that which has been entrusted to us.

About the Author

Jason Robertson is a husband and a father and a pastor. He is dedicated to leading and equipping his the Church with God’s word and biblical theology for life ministry, using a combination of pastoral, church planting and evangelism experience. He holds a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is experienced in church planting, evangelism, missions, and the training of pastors and Bible teachers. Jason has been preaching the gospel since 1985, serving the first ten years of ministry as a Southern Baptist itinerant evangelist out of Milldale Baptist Church in Zachary, LA which ordained him in 1993. He has preached in hundreds of churches in over 30 States and 4 countries. He planted churches in Siberia, Russia in the summers of 1993 and 1994. He founded Murrieta Valley Church in California, which he planted in cooperation with the SBC NAMB in 2001. He also teaches ministry students at California Baptist University. You can hear his sermons and read his manuscripts on sermonaudio.com. Just follow the link to "sermons" at the top of this page.