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LCPN Assistance Program

In an effort to bolster the value of our partnerships with local churches, LCPN has formed a partnership with the Liberty Counsel to form the LCPN Assistance Program, with its services available to churches actively supporting LCPN.

Since 1989 Liberty Counsel has been a nonprofit organization offering litigation, education, and policy advice in order to advance religious freedom, the family, and the sanctity of life. This legal ministry is associated with both Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University. Their services are pro bono, and as a partner with LCPN, your situation will receive first priority in the many cases handled by Liberty Counsel.

Liberty Counsel is pleased to extend their services to LCPN churches in the following areas:

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

With a church’s efforts to serve their community or to share the Gospel with their community, there can be opposition to such efforts. Liberty Counsel will provide advice on how to handle such situations.

LAND-USE DISCRIMINATION

At times, governments discriminate against churches in terms of land use with expansion or zoning. Liberty Counsel is glad to advise your church should these situations arise.

POLITICAL ACTIVITY

There have been instances where pastors have received unsolicited mailings to silence them on political or moral issues. These are mere scare tactics to limit the influence of Christian viewpoints in our culture. Liberty Counsel can help to clarify such situations for you and your church.

RULES & BYLAWS

When considering the articles and bylaws of your church, Liberty Counsel can advise you on wording to legally exclude people from church membership under certain circumstances.

The following is a small sample of the many cases handled by Liberty Counsel in the past few years:

  • Won the right for a Christian church to locate in a formerly all-spiritualist community in Florida
  • Defended churches in Alaska against a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, which sought to have certain property tax exemptions revoked
  • Filed suit and forced an Ohio city to change its zoning code so that churches could meet in areas where previously prohibited
  • Intervened in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU against a Florida school board and won the right for churches to continue renting school facilities

Should you find yourself or your church in need of the services provided by Liberty Counsel, contact the LCPN office at 434-592-4806 and let us know how we can best help you and your church.

Liberty Church Planting Network is the largest church planting network in the country, having planted over 900 churches since 1980. In respect to this momentum, we look to move forward as we continue to see our vision fulfilled of “changing the world by planting churches that plant churches.” We know that this will be best done with partnerships like the one we have formed with Liberty Counsel. It is through your continued financial support of LCPN that this partnership is possible, but more importantly that our world is changing!