# Church Planting — Three Creeks Church

> Source: https://threecreekschurch.com/church-planting/
> The family tree Three Creeks belongs to, and the residency for people who want to plant next.

_Church planting_

### Churches planting churches that plant churches.

We believe planting churches is the most effective way to reach people who are far from God. We were planted. We’ve planted. We’re not done.

**Launch Sunday · Feb 18, 2018**

Mark Atrip of Movement Church prays over Joel and Morgan Trainer as Movement Church sends them out to launch Three Creeks Church.

![The launch team being commissioned on the first Sunday.](https://threecreekschurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/planting-commissioning.jpg)

_The family tree_

### A legacy of church planting

Our church was launched in 2018 by Movement Church in Hilliard, OH. Our vision is to be a movement of churches that plant churches, that plant churches and so on.

- **Movement Church** — Hilliard, Ohio · 2012
- **Three Creeks Church** — Gahanna, Ohio · 2018
- **Contrast Church** — Grandview, Ohio · 2020
- **Bright City Church** — Sunbury, Ohio · 2024

To learn more about the Movement Churches Network and other opportunities, visit their site.

_The residency_

### Think you might be a church planter?

Three Creeks prepares future planters through a Church Planting Residency — real ministry, real coaching, and a front-row seat to how a young church actually runs, before you launch your own.

- **Learn it inside a working church** — Not planting in theory. You’re here on Sundays and in the meetings during the week, while the church is still young enough to watch it work.
- **Launch with a family behind you** — Nobody on the tree above went out alone. Every one of those churches launched with people, prayer and support from the one before it.

[Explore the Residency](mailto:info@threecreekschurch.com?subject=Residency)

_The math_

**1 → 4**

One church in Hilliard became four churches across central Ohio in twelve years. Multiplication beats addition.

Part of the Movement Churches network and the Charis Fellowship.

### Our plan to make heaven more crowded is to plant new life-giving churches in new places.