2023 EDITION

Dear Pillar Family,

We want to say thank you so much for your support and partnership in the gospel. As we reflect on 2023, we wanted to provide you with an End of Year report that gives a snapshot into how money spent, time invested, resources given, and relationships formed helped equip, plant, and revitalize churches all over the world. Moving into 2024, we are looking forward to seeing how the Lord will use the Pillar Network and our continued partnership for the glory of Christ, the health of his church, and the good of the nations.

Your grateful brother,

Nate Akin
Executive Director

2 Thes. 3:1 - “Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you”

KEY METRICS

Pillar serves churches by providing connection, coaching, and cooperative resourcing for the equipping, planting, and revitalizing of churches all around the world. Here are some key metrics highlighting how your investment in our network helped accomplish these goals.

~$1.136M GIVEN TO SUPPORT PLANTS/REVITALIZATIONS

In 2023, approximately $1.136 million was given or used to directly support church planters/revitalization works in our network. We are truly grateful to our churches and donors for supporting gospel work around the globe through our network!

HELPED PLANT OR REPLANT 47 NEW CHURCHES

Throughout the past year, Pillar helped 41 new church plants and 6 new replants/revitalizations. This includes churches that are in the early stages of planting, launched in 2023, and plants that are still in their infancy.

+124 NEW PARTNER CHURCHES

The Lord has once again blessed our network with significant partner growth in 2023. This year, we were able to partner with over a hundred new like-minded congregations around the world! At present, the Pillar Network has 440 partnering congregations in membership.

HELPED FUND 6 CHURCH PLANTING RESIDENTS

Pillar helped fund 6 residents getting ready to plant. These residents were located both in the United States and overseas.

BUILT 20+ CHURCH PLANT WEBSITES

One of the services Pillar provides to new plants is the option to have us build their first website. Pillar also assists new plants with logo design and other branding needs.

HELPED SUPPORT 46 EVENTS FOR PASTORS

In 2023, Pillar helped support or lead around 46 events meant to equip and encourage pastors and other Christian leaders.

+14 NEW REGIONS LAUNCHED

In 2023, we were able to grow from 44 regions expanding to 58 regions by year’s end. A major aspect of Pillar’s ministry is to help forge localized regions of churches where pastors can engage in historic Baptist associationalism for the good of planting and revitalizing. In addition, many pastors have found encouragement and friendship through regularly meeting with other like-minded shepherds in their cities.

PILLAR SERVES
33 NATIONS
2 US TERRITORIES

Pillar is now composed of churches in 31 different nations and 2 US Territories. We are praising God for this continued global diversity and desire to plant in even more nations in 2024!

YEAR-TO-YEAR NETWORK GROWTH

This chart highlights Pillar’s numerical partnership growth since 2012. At present, there’s about 440 churches in the network. In 2024, Lord willing, we will continue to see network growth as we partner with more and more like-minded congregations & pastors.

2024 PROJECTED BUDGET

This chart depicts our projected annual operating budget and the 4 main spending allocations for 2024. The total budget for next year is expected to be approximately $1.6M. Below are some breakdowns of our various budgetary categories.

MINISTRY - includes costs such as events/conferences we host, travel, web design for church plants, books, payroll for church plants, food, pastoral care, regional meals, residency grants, etc.

PERSONNEL - includes costs such as staff salaries (planned for 8 full-time, 8 part-time), insurance, retirement, employer taxes, and bonuses.

ADMIN - includes costs such as building expenses/utilities, subscriptions, online donation fees, bank service charges, accounting, office supplies, postage, etc.

MARKETING - includes costs such as camera gear, social media ads, print work, swag, other software, etc.

NOTE: Budget categories are listed by thousands.

CHURCHES & REGIONS

The Pillar Network is currently comprised of ~460 partnering churches across 33+ nations.. To view these churches, click the button below.

~650 ATTENDEES AT 2023 UNITE CONFERENCE

The Unite Conference is Pillar’s flagship annual event featuring 2-days of preaching, teaching, fellowship, musical worship, breakouts, good food, and enjoyable company. Each year, the theme for this conference comes from one of Pillar’s six DNA points. This past year’s conference focused on what it means to be confessionally-baptistic.

It was such an encouraging time to gather with close to 650+ attendees for Unite 2023 from all over

Join us for Unite 2024 on the campus of Southeastern Seminary, Oct. 8th & 9th.

+75 PASTORS EQUIPPED AT PILLAR INTENSIVE

In 2023, we held our third annual Pillar Pastors’ Intensive at First Irving near Dallas, TX. This event focused on helping churches become sending churches. Speakers and panelists for this conference included Nate Akin, Brad Evangelista, Matt Rogers, Steven Wade, Liam Garvie, & Dave Kiehn. We also had a special panel with Dwayne Milioni, Bill Curtis, & Phil Newton on lessons learned from 20 years of sending.

Our next Pastors’ Intensive is set for the last week of February in Nashville, TN, focusing on the nuts and bolts of church planting & revitalization. Learn more and signup today by clicking below.

OUR SHARED DNA

  • Gospel Proclamation

    We proclaim the gospel of our Sovereign Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

  • Bible-Based

    We submit to the Bible as our final authority in matters of life, faith, and doctrine

  • Live Exposition

    We promote live, expository preaching to equip the church

  • Elder-Led

    We encourage churches to be led by a plurality of male elders/pastors

  • Confessionally Baptistic

    We cooperate as Southern Baptists (GCB) & International Baptists to fulfill the Great Commission

  • Kingdom Minded

    We commit to kingdom multiplication through church planting and revitalization

OUR ONGOING MISSION

  • EQUIP.

    We serve and equip pastors and church planters to establish and lead faithful and healthy churches.

  • PLANT.

    We partner with churches to ensure their success in planting new churches that share our convictions/DNA.

  • REVITALIZE.

    We partner with churches to see them move from surviving to thriving to reproducing congregations.