Southwest Church Planting Network

The Southwest Church Planting Network

Planting churches.
Growing together.

Healthy churches take root through people who are willing to go, send, and stay.

We help PCA churches develop leaders, plant congregations, and support RUF campus ministries across the Southwest.

Find your partFind a church

Arizona · New Mexico · Oklahoma · Texas · and beyond

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Our shared mission

Planting and strengthening churches
through the Southwest.

Strengthening the gospel presence across the Southwest.

We plant new churches, invest in current leaders, and develop the next generation of pastors. Local churches and presbyteries share in every step—from recognizing a calling to sending and sustaining a leader.

Explore our mission & vision

Identify

Recognize and encourage leaders.

Form

Develop character and ministry practice.

Send

Connect leaders with a place to serve.

Sustain

Stay close through the long work.

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Rooted in place

Across the Southwest.
For the local church.

The work looks different in every community. What connects it is a shared commitment to gospel-centered, winsomely Reformed churches and campus ministries.

Read our vision

Meet the Network

A church near you.

Explore churches and campus ministries on the map, then find your community below.

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Churches & ministries

Churches without confirmed locations remain in the list. RUF pins use university campus locations; RUF and RUF International chapters may share a campus.

Join the work

There is a place
for you here.

Prospective planters

Explore your call.

Begin a conversation about assessment, formation, residency, and opportunities across the Southwest.

Start an application

Churches

Send well. Stay close.

Help identify leaders, launch new works, and care for planters for the long haul.

Talk about partnership

Friends of the Network

Pray. Give. Connect.

Encourage the people doing the work and help new congregations grow into healthy churches.

Ways to support