We will be a mission society made up of churches, ministries, and missionary workers wto are focused on reaching coastal cities of Orange and Los Angeles Counties. Other mission societies are being started in other strategic locations of the Southwestern United States under the same initiative.

The focus will be to bring together churches, ministries and missionary leaders for the purpose of greater Kingdom expansion here in Coastal Southern California. Together, we will be equipping existing churches to nest and send missionary teams to the various people groups here in Southern California. This will involve starting as many new ministries, Neighborhood Outposts, and new churches as possible.

There will be numerous churches, organizations, and leaders who will help found this new mission society. This work is being spearheaded by John Alwood, who has over 25 years of experience church planting and developing new church planting networks. He is currently working as a mission developer with the Pacific Southwest District (PSD) of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The PSD received a generous grant to kickstart this new mission society to strengthen existing churches, plant new churches, and develop new ministries anr missionary teams for the coastal area of SoCal.

As of today, (May 2024), we are in the infant stages of building relationships with churches and leaders who will become a part of the society’s founding.

We will be working alongside churches to help them become…

• a Nesting Church that hosts and fosters a relationship with a missionary team or leader

• a Collaborating Church - that works intimately with other churches to foster relationships with mission leaders and teams, starting mission outposts, ministries, or even plant a church

• a Sending Hub Church from which leaders, resources, and training takes place for the expansion of the kingdom.

If you are interested in being involved, contributing to, and/or benefitting from the work of this society, we’d love to talk and explore first steps.

Please click here to shoot an email to our mission developer, John Alwood. He will be more than happy to chat with you.

Right now, there are four different ways for individuals to be involved:

1. Become a Prayer Partner.

2. Start a ministry that builds community around the Gospel.

3. Consider becoming a Donating Partner.