The Baptist Resource Network has partnered with the North American Mission Board (NAMB) for the past several years to plant churches in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, but beginning in 2020, the Send Network partnership extended to the entire Pennsylvania/South Jersey region, supporting church planting across its sprawling rural farmlands, mountains, coastland, urban centers and small towns. Joe Velarde, lead pastor of Riverbend Community Church in Allentown, Penn., is leading the Send Network Pennsylvania/South Jersey efforts, which began March 1, 2020, under the direction of Whitworth and Cliff Jenkins, BRN’s director of multiplying churches.
