EVERY COUNTY INITIATIVE
(2025-2026)
THE WHERE:
6 TARGET REGIONS:
Wilmington (New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, & Duplin County)
Central Charlotte (Mecklenburg county)
Mountain Central (Buncombe, Madison, Henderson, Haywood, & Transylvania County)
Triangle East (Johnson, Franklin, & Eastern Wake County)
Fayetteville (Cumberland, Harnett, & Sampson County)
Crystal Coast (Craven, Jones, Carteret, Pamlico, & Onslow County)
The Need:
Raise the funds to fully fund 6 new regions over the next two years to double our active and funded regions from 6 to 12 regions in order to further catalyze a North Carolina Church Planting Movement. Cost to fully fund a region for one year is $25k ($12k Regional Catalyst Pay, $3k Catalyst Reimbursables & $10k operational support). Total cost for 6 regions for 2 years is $300,000.
Goal Breakdown
$25k per region x 2 years
= $50k per region x 6 regions
= $300k Total Goal
THE Plan:
THE TIMELINE:
2 TEAR TIMELINE
PHASE 1 - FOUNDATIONS
Jan-June 2025
Lay operational foundation to double from 6 to 12 regions. Movement leader working to establish lunches and key relationships in Regions.
PHASE 2 - CATALYZING
July-December 2025
Begin hiring Regional Catalysts as funding becomes available. Goal is to have all 6 regional catalysts in place by 2026.
PHASE 3 - SOLIDIFYING
January-June 2026
Regional Catalysts build intentional relationships in region with church planters and existing churches to solidify church planting network in their region.
PHASE 4 - SELF-SUSTAINING
July-December 2026
Regional Catalysts work to recruit Regional Churches and Stakeholders moving toward the goal of self-sustainability.
Next Steps:
Pray
We’re building a Prayer Movement that fuels our church planting. Right now, we have over 550 people on our prayer team. Our goal is to reach 1,000 people praying weekly for our pastors, church plants, and counties that need churches. Would your church host a CM Prayer Sunday where you take 5 mintues of the service to show a video about Every County and invite people in your church to join our prayer team? Also, click the button below to personally join the prayer team.
Give
We encourage all our churches to take a special “Every County” offering on June 8th, 2025, which is Pentecost Sunday—the day we celebrate the birth of the church! What better way to celebrate than by helping to plant hundreds of new churches across the state? Or, consider adding the Every County Initiative to your church’s missions budget this year.
Consider
Is your church located in one of these six regions? You could become a Regional Church or Stakeholder Church! Or maybe you live outside these regions but could sponsor one of these six new regions for $25,000 a year as they get started and work toward sustainability.
EXAMPLES & TESTIMONIES:
CHARLOTTE NORTH REGION:
Regional Catalyst: Corey Alley
Regional Church: Casa Viva Church
Church Plant: Josue Rodriguez
We launched Casa Viva Church in 2023. We started with just a core team of 27 people who worked really hard for that launch and as of this moment we are a little over a year and a half old. What we have seen the Lord do is incredible! We are seeing an average of over 600 people worshiping Jesus with us each Sunday. We have gone from one service to three services. But the even bigger victory is that we have seen 72 people make it to the baptismal waters!
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Through some God way I got invited to a Carolina Movement lunch where I got to meet a whole bunch of pastors from the city of Charlotte. I told them my dream was to launch a church in the city but I don’t have people around me. I remember Corey Alley standing from the table, looking at me in the eyes and saying, “God brought you to the right meal. You’re not going to plant alone and you should not plant alone and I’m going to make sure you don’t through Carolina Movement. He gave me a vision of churches planting churches to change the spiritual landscape of North Carolina. And these pastors starting loving us, checking up on us and partnering with us. And three years later they are still with us… still loving on us… still calling us… when we have been down, when we have been frustrated, they have been there. There is no doubt in my mind that if it wasn’t for that pastor and that meal we would not be where we are right now! Not as a church, not as a family. If we can continue to build those kinds of atmospheres and find those kinds of people that are for this vision to connect these pastors, I know that the state of North Carolina will completely change.
Triad Region:
Regional Catalyst: Adam Pickard
Regional Church: Definition Church
Church Plant: For the City Church w/ Chris Hollbrook
“Carolina Movement has been a game changer for me! I have developed friendships with other pastors in my community like never before. When I first started going to the monthly lunches, I only knew Nick Poindexter, but from that first meeting, Adam Pickard, our regional catalyst, set up a time to grab coffee for us to get to know each other. I remember Adam sharing how much of an impact the movement had made on him; it was that meeting that gave me the final push to partner with Carolina Movement to plant our church. Adam then invited me to lunch with another pastor in our area to talk about supporting me, and connected me with several other pastors in our area. Adam even rallied a group to show up to one of our church plant’s interest meetings, just to support us! The funding is great (and truly needed) but the relationships I have built through the monthly lunches and through my Regional Catalyst have been the absolute best part. I used to do ministry alone, but through Carolina Movement, I have found my people!”
– Chris Hollbrook