Hill Country Bible Church Northpoint: Austin, TX

Church Planting

"The single most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven is planting new churches." C. Peter Wagner Church Planting for a Greater Harvest

Hill Country Bible Church Northpoint was planted in January 2009 as a part of a movement of churches who desire to see every man, woman and child in Greater Austin hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  The first Hill Country Bible Church (NW) was started in 1987 as one church of 17 believers and has grown into a movement of thousands of growing disciples engaged in twenty vibrant Hill Country Bible Churches. Each church is committed to the passionate and sacrificial pursuit of this goal.  However, it will take tens of thousands of growing disciples in many different types of these missional congregations throughout Greater Austin to see the goal become a reality. 

Our association of churches has a three-pronged strategy to reach the 1.5 million (and counting) men, women, and children who who call Greater Austin their home.  These strategies include:

• Strategy #1: multiplying disciples
• Strategy #2: planting spiritually vibrant and strategically located churches
• Strategy #3: partnering with like minded ministries

In response to this God-given mission, Hill Country Bible Church Northpoint has made it our goal to plant 2 additional churches by 2015.  As the number of Hill Country Bible Churches continues to grow, some questions get asked frequently.  Here are few answers...

Aren't there already enough churches in Austin? Less than 17% of the people in Austin attend church  Only 8% attend an evangelical church  Church attendance was down 18% from 1990 to 2000 despite a net gain of 89 churches  To keep up with the growing population it was estimated there needed to be at least 415 new churches over that 10 year period  Check out our Why Another Church page. Why would we plant a church and give away core families before we build our own building? What a new church does first sets its priorities as a congregation Building campaigns will come as space dictates, but church-planting will always be a goal God has called us to be an "open-handed" congregation that gives radically and trusts Him with the results

In pursuit of the Vision to reach Austin and utilizing our strategy of planting churches, the association has established a Church Planting Training Center to prepare Pastors to team with growing disciples and plant strategically located churches throughout Greater Austin. Click here to view more information on our Church Planting Training Center Residency Program.  Here is a current list of the churches in the association along with a map with their locations.

Association of Hill Country Churches

Map of all the Hill Country Bible Churches

For information on how you can become a part of a future church plant team with Northpoint, please contact Buck Giebelhaus.