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Home mission workers volunteer for rigorous training

  —Brian Coombs, Kenneth Smith | Features, Interviews, Agency Features, Home Missions | February 03, 2002



The following interview with Pastors Brian Coombs and Kenneth Smith of the Syracuse Reformed Presbyterian Church elicits their response to having attended the “Church Planting Boot Camp,” a class taught by Professor Steve Childers at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Fla. The Syracuse RPC has maintained a satellite church as a means of extending the gospel and planting another church. Pastor Coombs leads that ministry.

How did you get involved in this class? Was this through the Home Mission Board?

Smith:Yes. I was surprised that someone in my generation would be asked, but I was encouraged to go, both for my own growth and to assess the course and its helpfulness. So, I attended the course in the summer of 2000.

Coombs:I attended a Home Mission Board (HMB) sponsored Church Planters Conference with Steve Childers in 2000 along with other RP church planting pastors and wives. Dean Smith of ...