Rooted in Christ: Church Planting Conference Sep. 2026

In September 2026 the Presbytery of Ohio hosted a church planting conference outside of Pittsburgh, PA. The conference highlights three different forms of church planting that the OPC has used in different contexts, 1. Seed/Core Group or what is known as a more reactive model to church planting in which folks who are interested in seeing an OPC started in their town contact the denomination asking for help, 2. A Mother/Daughter church plant model where a healthy growing church sends a group out to start another congregation (Pastor Myhren presented his experience with Bread of Life), 3. Parachute Planting, where the denomination, presbytery, or a congregation sends a man into a region without any real connections and he tries to start a new church from scratch.

In talk one, Rev. Larry Oldaker presents the seed group model of plants and talks about his experience over the years with this model.

In talk two, Rev. David Myhren presents the mother/daughter model and talks about some practical reasons for favoring this model.

In talk three, Rev. Brad Peppo presents his experience in parachute planting in Arizona.