We are currently in the process of planting six churches in the United States.

We’re so thankful for what the Lord has done and what we believe the Lord will do through these churches! Please join us in praying for these churches and for the pastors and teams that are planting them.

We thought you might enjoy this conversation we had with Eric Huber on The Mark Prater Podcast. Here’s a small excerpt (follow the link below for the full interview):

Eric Huber:

I’m one of the pastors at Greentree Church in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. It’s the church I’ve spent my whole life in – other than a few years in college and grad school. That’s been my life. I was raised in the church. Actually, my dad was the pastor and so that’s where I’ve always been. I’m married, no children, but my wife has been in the church as well since she was just a young girl. That’s where we met and that’s where we fell in love and that’s where we serve. Right now, we’re planning on planting a church out of Greentree. Actually, it’s the very first time – we’ve had men who are pastors who went out, but it was their personal ministry and the church was behind them. This is the very first time that Greentree is saying we want to be a church planting church. We want to have a culture. We think this is part of what we’re supposed to do. So it’s very exciting.

Benjamin Kreps:

That is exciting. It’s an interesting, actually wonderful story that you’ve spent most of your life in the same church. Your dad was the senior pastor for many years now your brother Kyle is. And so you have extensive experience in pastoral ministry. You have training decades serving in your church. And so you preparing now to plant a church is a little bit maybe unconventional than sometimes what we’re used to seeing, which would be a young guy out of seminary ready to go. You’re a seasoned pastor now leaving behind what’s familiar to launch on a church plant. How has your experience over all those years of ministry helped you as you begin to move forward into planting this church?

Eric Huber:

In a certain sense, probably the least likely person to plant. I love my church, I love my people. Somewhere in my mind I thought of planting as kind of going off into Jabip someplace where you don’t know anybody. Its just you and your wife claiming this ground for Jesus. That had no appeal to me. I want pastor these people. I’m just a local church pastor. As we began to talk more and more about planting, I was still thinking it’s going to be somebody else. I could see myself going and helping but not being the lead guy. And I just realized church planting with the people we have and I’m just going to be pastoring the people I already know and love.