Plant
Plant healthy churches.
Help new churches and strategic ministries take root through sustained partnership in their early years.
What we are working toward: a steady rhythm of healthy planting that strengthens the region over time.
Our five-year vision
A stronger church-planting culture for the Southwest.
Over the next five years, we are working toward a connected network where churches send leaders, future pastors are formed in local congregations, and church planters receive the care they need to endure and multiply.
The next five years
Four investments.
One multiplying movement.
Our vision is not four separate programs. Each investment strengthens the others—so that healthy churches form leaders, leaders plant churches, and new churches become sending churches themselves.
Care
Care for church planters.
Surround planters and their families with trusted peers, mentoring, encouragement, and care for the long work of ministry.
What we are working toward: leaders who are known, supported, and equipped to endure.
Develop
Develop future leaders.
Form future pastors in local churches through a residency pathway that joins intentional formation, real ministry experience, and discernment.
What we are working toward: a clear pathway from emerging leader to faithful pastoral ministry.
Explore the residency pathwayMultiply
Equip sending churches.
Help congregations identify leaders earlier, prepare and send them generously, and stay connected to the works they launch.
What we are working toward: more churches asking, “Whom can we send?”
All four investments begin and end in the local church.
Our region
Five presbyteries.
One shared calling.
The vision takes shape through local churches and presbyteries across a vast, growing region. Explore the five partner presbyteries that make up our shared field of ministry.
THE SOUTHWEST & BEYOND
Regional overview
Select a colored region or choose a presbytery from the list. Drag to pan after zooming.
Regional visualization based on the PCA’s published presbytery boundary descriptions (2024) and U.S. Census county outlines. Boundaries are simplified for display; the PCA’s descriptions govern. North Texas includes northwest Louisiana. Uncolored areas are outside these five geographic regions.
Our mission
Healthy churches at the center.
SWCPN brings local churches, presbyteries, and leaders together to strengthen the gospel presence across the American Southwest.
We connect the whole journey: identifying leaders, forming them in the local church, sending them to plant, and supporting them as their churches grow toward multiplication.
Alongside church planting, SWCPN supports RUF campus ministries as students encounter the gospel and connect with the local church.
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