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Have you ever had the opportunity to design a dream house? Hours are spent putting together the plans, poring over details, and visualizing every room. Experts, from architects, contractors, and kitchen designers, to interior decorators and landscapers, are called in for advice and help. There are often obstacles that need to be overcome. Finally, after months of dreaming, planning, and working, the house is finished and the dream complete.

Larry and Melodee Gruetzmacher, missionaries to Mexico City, feel privileged to be a part of the process of designing and developing a new church. The purpose of their Campamento church planting seminar is to bring together pastors and leaders who feel God’s call to start a new church, helping to guide them in their dreams to design and develop the most effective church plan to reach their community.

The Campamento is a three-day seminar using interactive workshops and personal coaching to help each church planter design and develop a unique plan for his community. The topics: Core Values, Vision & Mission; Putting Together the Leadership Team; Assimilating People; First Impressions; Planning for Implementation; and many others. This training provides a firm foundation for the new church project.

Isidoro Hernandez is the pastor of a new church in northern Mexico City that is evidence of Campamento principles in action. In four months they have seen their church grow in attendance from 0 to the 70’s.

Isidoro says that he attributes the rapid growth to a strong leadership team and a guiding vision/mission statement that have helped to provide clear direction and purpose. Their strategy has been a heavy focus on community outreach. Their goal is to contact every household in their section of the city.

Isidoro is also a member of the Campamento leadership team. His experience is a blessing to other new church planters.