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  • 10 Steps to Sponsoring a Growing, Healthy, Multiplying Church — (PPT)

    Here are some ideas to promote health and growth in a church plant. 

    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.

    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. 

    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. 

    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.

    Church Planting Bible Studies
    This page contains resources for leading small group Bible studies on the topic of Church Planting. 

    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.

    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. 

    Discovery Tools Download Page
    Discovery Tools is a booklet that can help potential church planters discover their own giftedness for church planting. 

    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)

     

    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. 
    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!

    Multihousing Brochure

    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.

    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.
    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.

    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.
    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. 

    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).

    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. 

    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.

    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. 

    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. 

    Propagating the Culture of the Church, Part Two
    Let’s focus on the idea of developing culture-bearers.

    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. 

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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

    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.
    Sponsorship Models
    Four models of church planting sponsors are defined: parenting, pioneering, partnering, and propagating. Download

    Start A Church Sunday
    This page contains resources for the 2008 Start a Church Sunday. 

    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?

    Understanding Hispanic Leaders In North America (ESP)

     

    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. 

    Who Me...Start a Church? (PDF)

    This participant's handbook will guide you through a strategy for lay church planting.