Nick Poole

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With 8 church plants, coaching new leaders into church planting, and finding time to help grow his church, clearly Nick Poole is certainly a successful man of the ministry. At only twenty seven years old, his level of professionalism is very refreshing and inspiring. He knows what needs to happen to get the job done.
I like his take on working with other churches in the community. Again, as most speakers, Nick recognizes the deep importance of unity and involvement in the community. When asked about deciding where to plant a church, he said it’s important that you look for a community that best suits your style. Then, work as a team with the other churches and such to make the community stronger. “We are not a bunch of individual plants trying to make things work-it’s everyone working together as a body. It’s not a competition, it’s a partnership.” This is a great principal that we as a church need to embrace more readily. We are one body so we should work together as one.
I’m a little bit reluctant to touch on this but one thing I noticed that I wanted to question him about was his methods on finding people to work in the churches. He mentioned that he needed four or five children’s pastors. To me, that sounds like an open door to invite people within his church to get involved and “apply’ for the positions. However, I don’t think he said anything about finding people that way. It seemed as though he wanted to find a more qualified person for the job but, maybe God is putting it on the hearts of some average people to rise up into that leadership. That’s what happened with Jan Workman and we all know how exceptional that has turned out!
Overall, Nick Poole is a very inspiring, young leader. We (I) can learn a lot from the things that he is accomplishing with his church plants.