| 10 Steps to Sponsoring a Growing, Healthy, Multiplying Church — (PPT) |
Here are some ideas to promote health and growth in a church
plant.
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| A Critical Ingredient for Reaching North America |
Church planting plays a crucial part in any strategy to
reachNorth Americawith the gospel. Evangelistic church planting will impact
total numerical growth, and can be a catalyst for spiritual renewal of existing
churches.
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| A Manual for Partnering Churches (PDF) |
This is a complete manual written by Rodney Harrison to prepare churches to
effectively sponsor new church plants. |
| Are You Ready to Launch Your First Public Worship Service? (PPT) |
Twenty-one questions for the church planting leadership team, core group, and
parent church to ask before the first public worship service.
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| Building Effective Partnerships for Church Planting |
Effective partnerships are critical to successful church planting in the 21st
century. Learn how to invite, build, and nurture partnerships.
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| Calling Out the Called (PDF) |
Calling Out the Called is an event and a process that consists of six
essential components. These components empower believers to hear and
respond to God's call to be on mission in their communities by starting new
churches. |
| Church Planter Training |
Looking across the web under the search, “Church Planter Training,” you will
find 923,000 choices. We have come a long way in a short period of
time. In 1993, as I started to plant my first church I could only find one
seminar on “Church Planting.” The Church Growth Movement and the books that
were written preceded the development of Church Planting. Even Basic
Training for Church Planters came out more than twelve years ago. It has
been used to train over 12,000 church planters, spouses and their teams. Now we
have come to 2010 and the release of the new Basic Training Journey for
Church Planting. |
| Church Planter Training (Spanish Version) |
Church Planter Training (Spanish) |
| Church Planting Ads |
This web page provides sample ads that can be used by DOM's and state
convention leaders to promote church planting.
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| Church Planting Bible Studies |
This page contains resources for leading small group Bible studies on the topic
of Church Planting.
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| Church Planting Sponsors |
This resource helps churches become effective partners. |
| Critical Steps to Sponsoring a New Church |
What does it take to sponsor a healthy reproducing church? At minimum it
requires the preparation of the pastor, the involvement of the congregation and
the partnership of the Holy Spirit.
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| Discover Church Planting Workshop (PDF) |
An interactive experience for finding planters and partners for church
planting. |
| Discovering and Involving Hispanic Leaders |
Hispanic church planting leaders are needed throughout North America. In
this PPT Jorge Sedaca provides insights for discovering and developing leaders
in your area.
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| Discovery Tools Download Page |
Discovery Tools is a booklet that can help potential church planters discover
their own giftedness for church planting.
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| Doing the Great Commission in Your Community |
When we look at Jesus Christ’s three year ministry we see that He
engaged many kinds of lost people. First and foremost, Christ introduced the
gospel to His own people, the Hebrews. But the Gospels also record
specific kinds of people to whom Jesus introduced the kingdom. Fishermen, tax
collectors, Samaritans, rich, poor, lepers, Greeks, prostitutes, the sick,
demon-possessed, children, Pharisees, and Sadducees are some that are listed in
the Gospels. |
| Doing the Great Commission in Your Community (ESP) |
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| Five Things Church Planters Wished Their Supervisors Knew |
I recently surveyed 190 individuals in North America who were involved in
church planting at a variety of levels, in 13 denominations and parachurch
organizations. This article is a brief summary and response to the five
critical issues most commonly listed.
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| Heroic Churches Sponsor Church Plants |
"Everyone Can" is the theme for the 2006 On Mission: Planting New Congregations
Sunday. If a dozen pastors from churches running about 200 in worship or
less can work together to plant four new works, imagine what God could do
through your congregation or association!
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| Multihousing Brochure |
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| Multi-Housing Church Planting |
The five identified multihousing communities viable for church planting are private apartment communities, condominium communities, manufactured housing communities, public housing communities, and senior housing communities.
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| Multiplication Through Church Planting Centers |
Multiplication is not addition. We will never be able to reach the people
of North America through addition. Addition will not keep pace with mere
population growth. The Great Commission is a call to multiply.
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| New Churches Needed: Your Church Can Help (PDF) |
New Churches Needed is a step-by-step interactive handbook designed to help
you develop your plan for involving your church and its members in being on
mission through church planting. |
| Partnering in Planting |
In a study of over 600 new Southern Baptist
congregations, Ed Stetzer found that there was “a slightly positive impact”
over the first two years when a new church was tied with an existing church.
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| Partners in Church Planting |
Partners in Church Planting (PiCP) resources provide a system for equipping and
nurturing partnering/sponsoring churches to plant healthy, reproducing churches
with evangelistic passion.
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| Pastoral Leadership in Sponsoring Church Planting |
In most cases, this role is personified at
least in part by the pastor of the sponsoring church. However, successful
partnership in church planting will require shared leadership in the church
plant by way of a church planting team.The above definition alludes to several
roles of leadership.
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| Planting Churches in Live, Work, & Play Communities |
According to the Foundation for Community Association Research, a non-profit
organization created in 1975 by Community Associations Institute (see www.caionline.org ), an estimated 54 million
Americans live in some 274,000 homeowner associations, condominium communities,
cooperatives, and other planned developments (up from 45 million in 2000).
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| Planting Churches with Evangelistic Passion: How |
Churches have traits. Some churches have the trait of love, while others
seem to have a trait for dissention. Some congregations have a passion
for evangelism, while other congregations have a passion for
entertainment.
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| Preparation for Sponsoring a New Church |
When getting ready to sponsor a new church, preparation is
paramount. One well-known basketball coach tells his players, “The
deep drive to prepare within the player is more significant than the drive to
win!” The need for preparation should never be taken too lightly.
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| Preparing a Congregation to Plant a Church |
Sometimes pastors experience difficulty in attempting to lead their church
to consider planting another congregation. In many cases the pastor has
not led the congregation through a process of preparation or
discovery.
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| Propagating the Culture of the Church, Part One |
Every church has a culture just like every community has a culture. This
culture – the sum total of all the ways we relate to each other and to those
outside the group, the unwritten rules for social interaction, can develop by
intent or by chance.
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| Propagating the Culture of the Church, Part Two |
Let’s focus on the idea of developing culture-bearers.
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| Pursuing the Mission of God in Church Planting (PDF) |
This book addresses today's opportunities and challenges facing the Church
of Jesus Christ, stirring within believers a passion to pursue and live out the
mission of God in church planting. |
| Pursuing the Mission of God in Church Planting: Discussion Guide (PDF) |
This discussion guide will assist you in exploring the issues raised within
each individual chapter of Pursuing the Mission of God in Church
Planting, and the book in its entirety. |
| Ready? |
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| SACS Resource Page |
Live with Urgency is the theme for 2009 Start a Church Sunday. These
pages contain sermons, videos, promotional and follow up materials for churches
to celebrate Start a Church Sunday. Download
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| Securing a Meeting Place |
Without question, one of the most important issues to be addressed in the
starting of a new church is the meeting place. As a Church Planter
considers this issue, he must be very open-minded and extremely adaptable.
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| Sponsorship Models |
Four models of church planting sponsors are defined: parenting, pioneering,
partnering, and propagating. Download
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| Start A Church Sunday |
This page contains resources for the 2008 Start a Church Sunday.
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| Surviving a Tough Economy |
Spanish Version |
| Understanding and Facilitating Church Planting (Unit 1) |
The challenge faced by state church planting leaders,
associational missionaries, churchplanting missionaries, minister
of missions and pastors with a heart of kingdom growth is how doI
facilitate church planting in my assigned area of responsibility?
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| Understanding Hispanic Leaders In North America (ESP) |
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| Vision Tour Coordinator Manual (PDF) |
A Church Planting Group GPS Visioning Tour is either a one day or two day
event. During this event, potential sponsoring church leaders and church
planters come together in a selected city to discover church planting needs in
that community. |
| Vision Tour Overview (PDF) |
A Church Planting Group GPS Visioning Tour is either a one day or two day
event. During this event, potential sponsoring church leaders and church
planters come together in a selected city to discover church planting needs in
that community. |
| Where Do Sponsoring Churches Find Church Planters? |
To enlist literally means to secure the support and aid of another.
Enlisting others to partner with you in the task of church planting is
critical.
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| Who Me...Start a Church? (PDF) |
This participant's handbook will guide you through a strategy for lay church
planting. |