I came upon an article about church planting and was encouraged by this:

Gary Rohrmayer, director of church planting for the Midwest Baptist Conference, told me of a 1,200-member church that planted a church. The new church quickly grew to 200, but in the same time period, the 1,200-member church grew to 1,600. Seeing that the established church had actually added more members, leaders wondered whether they should put their resources into expanding their own ministry instead of planting another church. When asked how many adult converts they had seen in that period, however, they named eight. The new church had about 100. “You [tell] me whether you should start another church or not,” Rohrmayer says.

Quoted from: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/september/36.68.html

At the Exponential Church Planting conference we went to in April, we both were excited by what God is doing in the U.S. and in the world right now through church planting.  God is a God of communities, and through new, innovative communities of faith He is drawing disciples to Himself.  It is awesome.  Jesus is at work; we’re just along for the ride!