“Overseed” is actively recruiting seminary students from theological schools not historically affiliated with mainline denominations

Acknowledging the precipitous decline of all the historic mainline denominations in North America, self-described “renewalists” are trying something new. They call it Overseed.

How it works:
1. Identify a once fruitful ministry field that now lies fallow.
2. Identify a qualified pastor with a church-planting spirit who is willing to work the field.
3. Offer personal mentoring and strategic equipping to prepare that pastor to till the soil, plant the seed and cultivate what may very likely be rocky soil.
4. Count on God to give the growth.
5. Participate in the joyful harvest of righteousness as the Word takes root in human hearts and a once fallow field yields abundant spiritual fruit.

That’s the vision.

The visionaries are a diverse group of pastors and lay leaders from the Presbyterian, United Methodist, Episcopalian, Lutheran, United Church of Christ and United Church of Canada branches of the church universal. For all their denominational differences, what they share is a commitment to the historic mainline expression of Christianity.

They are of one mind that Jesus is the only way to salvation, the Bible alone is the Word of God, and that through the Scriptures God has revealed everything that is necessary for salvation and holy living. They have a heart for the lost and a passion to see once fruitful churches restored to active ministry and witness throughout the United States and Canada.