Again, facing the same decision about its own purpose and meaning, the Northwest Christian Community Church saw the need to reach people through the birthing of a second daughter, the Heartland Community Christian Church in Gurnee. So intense was the desire to birth a second daughter church that the Northwest congregation encouraged its lead evangelist, Phil Claycomb, to start the new church. Along with this encouragement came a core group and significant financial support. The CDEA expects several other daughter churches to be born in the next decade, as a result of planting church-planting churches today. A great reason to support new churches is because they will multiply themselves over and over.
New churches are able to optimize today's intense concern for children.
Whether it is called PromiseLand, Kingdom Avenue, or even Precious Praise, new churches are able to capitalize on the American trend to love and care for children. Demographic information indicates that today's families are vitally interested in teaching their kids biblical values. Yet many a Christian church barely has a Sunday school or children's program that reaches significant numbers of children. New churches specialize in children's ministry from Day One. While it takes a lot of work to convert a hallway into a classroom that is attractive and inviting to a child, it can and is being done in new churches.