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We provide intentional relationship-based networking for church planters and their families.

Our Leadership

Chris Wiggs

Chris Wiggs is the Executive Director of Reach Network, and the Church Planting Director for the Southern Missouri Ministry Network. He helps church planters and their teams with training and guidance throughout the planting process. Chris and his wife, Laura, have been married 15 years and have two beautiful daughters. They have pastored churches in Arkansas, Kentucky, and Missouri.  Chris is also the founding Pastor of Reach Church St. Louis, a diverse and growing congregation in the St. Louis area.

Jerry Harris

Jerry Harris is the Founder/CEO Emeritus of Reach Network. He brings to Reach Network 40+ years of experience as pastor, church planter, and missionary. He has pastored in the rural, suburban, and city areas in Texas and Missouri. After pastoring St. Charles First Assembly for 12 years, Jerry served as the Church Planting Director for the Southern Missouri District for 9 years. Jerry and his wife, Lisa, have 3 children and 9 grandchildren, and love spending time with family.

Give Jerry or Chris a call!

Our Process

Reach Network works with Planters through 5 crucial areas of development and organization using a 7-step process and benchmarks in a 12-month timeline.

Relationship Building

  • Provide a network of relationships with established leaders and coaches throughout the complete process of church planting
  • Facilitate a network of relationships with local pastors and churches and other local and non-local church planters and their families

Equipping

  • Provide and assist with marketing and fundraising strategies
  • Assist with the recruitment and development of church teams and core groups
  • Provide administrative assistance for legal requirements, web and social media, publications, networking, general office, accounting and the building of administration structures

Advancing

  • Collaborate with community and church leaders to address the needs of the local area and accomplish Kingdom initiatives larger than the local church
  • Recruit new church planters and promote, consult, and encourage healthy churches to effectively parent a new church

Coaching

  • Provide leadership development, identification, and development of key leaders and team building for pastor/board and pastor/staff/team
  • Provide guidance in the development of church ministries and sustaining spiritual and numerical growth

Health Maintenance

  • Ongoing mentorship, training and leadership development
  • Ongoing health checkup of leadership and ministries through evaluations
  • Help with people assimilation into the local church and he local church into the communit

Affiliations

Assembly of God US Missions Project

REACH NETWORK

Account #4707394

Church Planting and Church Mobilization Departments

Non-Profit Organization

Reach Network is an exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; #81-4271618. 

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