US Church Planter Conversations

In God’s abounding kindness, 2025 has been a great year for church planting in the United States. September alone marked four Sovereign Grace church plants and Mark Prater, our Executive Director, has been catching up with the church planters over on his podcast.

One such planter is Howard Varnedoe, who recently planted Hope Community Church, in Columbia, Tennesee. It was just a little while ago that his son, Josh Varnedoe, planted Christ Community Church in North Knoxville and so this is certainly an exciting story to tell. You can listen in right here. … Enjoy!