Pruitt extends “Pray100, Plant100” challenge to messengers, leads in prayer for God’s hand on the effort

HOUSTON—Shane Pruitt, newly appointed director of missions for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, introduced a new church planting focus to messengers during the Tuesday morning session of the 2015 annual meeting in Houston. The effort, which Pruitt referred to as ‘Pray100, Plant100,” sets a goal for the 2,500-plus churches of the SBTC to add church planting to their regular prayer time, asking that the Lord to raise up 100 church planters each year in Texas who would plant biblically based, kingdom-focused, missionally driven churches.

While there may be a lot of buildings with steeples atop them in Texas, Pruitt said, the state lacks a sufficient number of churches truly busy about working the harvest described in Matthew 9:36-38. Convinced of this, Pruitt said he can confidently say that, yes, more churches need to be planted in order to reach the millions of people in need of Christ’s salvation.

Pruitt asked messengers to email churchplanting@sbtexas.com or to use the hashtag #pray100plant100 on social media to get more information and to share how their churches commit to advance the effort.