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. 

This test serves as a good first step to determine if you have the drive and interest required for becoming a Church Planter. Download

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)

This page contains links to resources for individuals who are considering God's call to become a church planter. 

The first question is "What is a core group?" The short answer to this question is, "a core group is the new church in seed form." 

An interactive experience for finding planters and partners for church planting.  

This booklet will help you better understand how God has uniquely designed you for ministry. In this booklet you will develop your personal ministry profile by exploring your call into ministry, your spiritual gifts, your passion, your ministry preference, and your church planting potential. Download

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.

This interactive workshop is designed to take potential church planters and sponsoring churches through an interactive process that helps them see the need for church planting in designated areas in your association or state convention. 

Overview of the enlistment process with links to popular resources. 

eQuip will help beginning church planters and teams connect with a mentor. (This resource is being updated.)

Discover how the Oklahoma Baptist Convention is identifying potential church planters in their state convention and how they introduce them to church planting via regularly scheduled events. 

The South Carolina Baptist Convention has developed a strategy to enlist potential church planters from their state convention using direct mail and an offer for a free book on church planting. 

This page contains links to the videos used during a Kingdom Builders event.

Kingdom Builders shows how every church, like the church at Antioch, can seek, send, and support church planting work.

This tool is specifically designed to determine the ministry leadership attributes of an individual. This assessment, loosely built upon Charles Ridley's church planter assessment process, operates under the assumption that activities in the past and present are good indicators of future behavior.   

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. 

This page contains some of the resources for On Mission Together: Planting New Congregations Sunday which was held on March 30, 2008. 

The PLACE User Guide is designed as a guide for anyone interested in using PLACE Assessments in their ministry. This guide includes an overview of PLACE Ministries, an explanation of PLACE Profiles, and suggestions for using the tools available through PLACE. 

This self-study guide helps prepare potential church planters for the Basic Training workshop. 

Spanish Version

It is our desire that TransPlant will start a movement of missional faith communities across North America.The heart of TransPlantis to ignite a passion in students for the unchurched of North America. 

Turn In A Planter is a church planter enlistment strategy designed to gather as many names of potential church planters and team members as possible, then to follow up with those individuals, providing them information on how to be involved in church planting. 

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