More than half (57 percent) of the people in the United States live in multihousing communities — apartments or mobile home parks. That’s why Tuscaloosa Baptist Association and the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) have teamed up to equip Christians in Alabama to reach the lost through multihousing ministries.
The opportunities are endless, according to Eric Boykin, Tuscaloosa Association’s missional strategist.
“We want to raise the awareness of opportunities to do multi-housing ministry and provide partnership information on how we (the Church) can do this together,” Boykin said.
SBOM’s office of associational missions and church planting and Tuscaloosa Association will offer multiple luncheons this spring so pastors, key leaders or “anyone who wants to do missions work in their community” can learn about multihousing opportunities. The luncheons also will provide opportunities to network with the 13 multihousing strategists who are planted across the state helping Christian communities reach out and share the gospel.
No registration is required for the following luncheons:
- March 15 — Tuskegee Lee Baptist Association office (10:30 a.m.)
- March 21 — Etowah Baptist Association office (11:30 a.m.)
- March 28 — Columbia Baptist Association office (10:30 a.m.)
- March 31 — Birmingham Baptist Association office (11:30 a.m.)
- April 4 — Integrity Baptist Church, Hueytown (11 a.m.)
- April 5 — Montgomery Baptist Association office (10:30 a.m.)
- April 19 — Highland Park Baptist Church, Muscle Shoals (Noon)
- April 25 — Government Street Baptist Church, Mobile (11:30 a.m.)
- April 26 — First Baptist Church, Summerdale (11 a.m.)
- May 2 — Mount Zion Baptist Church, Huntsville (10:30 a.m.)
A multihousing learning lab is another opportunity to “learn a little and do a lot,” Boykin said. During a two-day lab, participants in groups of 10–15 will be trained on some basic multihousing ministry techniques and then assist in organizing block parties, meeting with apartment complex managers, learning to identify different types of communities and speaking with housing authorities.
“Apartment managers want the Church [in the community] to help,” Boykin said. Multihousing ministry is not only a way to reach the lost, it is something that the authorities in the area request because they know how much good it does for the community.
Learning labs
The following learning labs require registration and are sponsored by SBOM and Tuscaloosa Association:
- April 8–9 — Biloxi, Mississippi
- May 4–5 — Tuscaloosa
- June 8–9 — Tuscaloosa
- Sept. 21–22 — Tuscaloosa
To register, email Boykin at eric@tuscaloosacba.com.
“I hope these events will give [Alabama Baptists] some ideas that will strengthen their strategy to disciple the most unreached and unsought in our country.”
For more information, visit tuscaloosacba.com/multi-housing.
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