Grace Global Network Download

This resource examines the Biblical basis for planting churches in this multicultural society. Download

Story telling is one of the best ways to share the gospel. A story can penetrate across cultures. Learn more by using this guide. 

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 summer thousands of Southern Baptists will descend on Louisville, Kentucky, for the 150th gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention.

North America is a complex place with many different people groups and cultures. This resource helps church planters understand what a people group is and how to develop a contextualized strategy to reach many different people groups. 

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.

Southern Baptist Hispanic work has grown in the last decade. However, we are reaching a very small percentage of the Hispanic population.

This IMB resource helps short term missions volunteers understand basic missions principles.  

What is Islam and how do Muslim neighbors view the world?  These PDF's are must reads.

Isalm Overview                 

Muslims Among Us          

Muslim Worldview           

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.

This is a chart of the North American People's Spectrum.  Download

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. 

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. 

The Missional Church in North America 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.

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. 

Spanish Version

In addition to the Biblical Mandate, there is a compelling demographic necessity to plant churches in Hispanic communities. Hispanics are growing 6 times the rate of the U.S. as a whole. They will add the largest number of people to the population through the year 2050.

                      Rediscovering the Urban Church Planter. . .       Imagine you’re a contestant on the game show Jeopardy . Can you give the question to the following answer: During his 51 years of service, he established 20 mission stations, brought 849 missionaries to the fi