How do I get CARE started at my church?

How can CARE to Churches help my church?

Frequently Asked Questions

History of CARE to Churches?

Let me begin by telling you who I am. My name is Marcus Redding. I am the senior pastor of Hull's Grove Baptist Church. I met Mark Hunnicutt in 1992 when he and I began Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute together. Mark and I went through Fruitland and then on to North Greenville College together. During that journey, we learned that we shared a heart beat that desired to reach people for Christ. We also learned that we both believed that Christ's instrument to accomplish the Great Commission was STILL the local church.

Mark came to our church family in the year 2000 to do a youth revival. During a time of conversation, I learned that Mud Creek was starting a new ministry called CARE. At the time, they were not using any acrostic for the word. Our church family was (and still is) teaching the principles of the Great Commission and saw CARE as a wonderful way to tie every ministry in our church to the reality of carrying out the Great Commission. The result was that I asked Mark if we not only could use the ministry at our church, but also if he would allow me to use the word "C.A.R.E." as an acrostic that stood for "Christians Actively Reaching Everyone"? He said "Great! Can we use the acrostic too?" — and thus C.A.R.E. was born.

We didn't have manuals or teaching materials. We only had the great model of Mud Creek Baptist Church. As we started C.A.R.E., our church family was very small. Mud Creek began teaching C.A.R.E. in seminar style. When small churches came to them with concerns about trying to start C.A.R.E. in a small congregation, Mark began sending them to us so they could see how to do it small! The result — churches started coming more and more to us for "hands on training." Our church responded with excitement, and we established our C.A.R.E. to Churches ministry in order to train them.

How do I get CARE started at my church?

There are several ways for you to find out whether CARE is the tool for your church to use to carry out the Great Commission. Again carrying out the Commission is not an option for the church and we believe that CARE is a great tool to use, however we want you to prayerfully consider if CARE is "the" tool God is leading your church to use. We suggest that you browse our website or contact us to gather all the available information about CARE. Then meet with you Pastor, staff, leadership teams, or congregations to pray for God's guidance. We would love to help you in this process and have consultants that will pray with you or lead your church in prayerful consideration of CARE and the carrying out of the Great Commission.   

Today, we seek to develop better resources and better teaching methods to help every church regardless of size to utilize C.A.R.E. and to do it effectively. We are looking much deeper than just presenting some "program" to you. We are praying for God to transform churches through all He has done and is doing for us.

C.A.R.E. must be tailored to each situation and we want to help you do that in your church. If you are in the process of starting C.A.R.E. or have some experience at it already, we have many helpful tools and resources that have been developed through our experience. We encourage you to explore our website and take a look at the resources that are now available to you.

How can CARE to Churches help my church?

Our heart is to see the Great Commission carried out at the local church so we offer a number of ways to assist you in the implementation of CARE.

• Consultations

• Walk-thru visits

• Snapshot seminars

• Sunday Messages

• Revivals

• Seminar Training

• Block Parties

• CARE University courses

Contact us to learn more about these and other ways we may assist you.