Nick Poole

Nick Poole is a very young man to be so skilled at what he does. He directs church planting for Allison Park Church, in what is called the multi-church movement. This job includes deciding whether or not a church should be planted with them, and then coaching whoever is going to plant with them into a healthy church. The plants he has already coached into existence are very close in the Pittsburgh area. He said that within a fifteen minute drive you could reach 4 of their plants. Something very interesting to me was mistakes that he saw new church plants make, such as thinking they've never started anything, fear of start, and thinking that the church will grow to a hundred or more in a week, which will discourage them if it doesn't happen. Once these churches are established, the teamwork really begins through these churches. The plants are generally kept from each others business, but are also all involved in the Allison Park church network of plants, so they all help each other in their outreach. It's an amazing process to see all of the churches grow and then continue to work together. I hope that the teamwork they show can effect how I do ministry in the future.