This page contains an overview of the 2009 Start a Church Sunday celebration as well as links to popular resources.  Download

Church planters, by nature, are fast-moving, catalytic people. Taking time to properly prepare can be challenging. Yet, this was key to Jesus’ approach in preparing His disciples. He dedicated Himself for three years so that the ministry He began would continue through them. For potential church planters to be effective they, too, must take tim e to prepare. A number of questions should be addressed before launching such a missional endeavor.  Click Here

This resource provides a church planting overview to new or potential church planters.

This resource provides an overview of the planting process for the state convention or association. 

This is a complete manual written by Rodney Harrison to prepare churches to effectively sponsor new church plants. Download

This resource contains a simple to understand Bible Study for those who are new to the faith or considering the claims of Christ. Download

Basic Training II (BT II) is a six session (10 hour), two-phase process of preparing the church planting team to lead the church to the next level of growth.  Download

This resource was written by a bi-vocational church planter.  He shares some of the ideas he used to help the church he led grow. Download

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. Download

This document provides links and information to three pre-assessment resources: PLACE, Quick Quiz, and Leadership Assessment. Download

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

This page is part of the Virtual Church Planting Experience.

The love/hate relationship between the Church and the arts has been well documented. Many better educated men and women than myself have written about the subject. For that reason, I will not attempt to pontificate on this matter. However, I have wondered most of my life why the majority of my artsy friends recoiled at the thought of attending church. God began to give me a passion to find out what a church would look like that authentically wanted to love, serve, and minister to a local arts community.

This is a comprehensive manual designed to help church planters prepare and administer a comprehensive prayer strategy. Download

This resource helps churches become effective partners.

Compass provides a church planting 'start up kit' for use by new church planters. Download

This self-study guide helps a church planter evaluate their potential and effectiveness in church planting. Download

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

I am amazed just how often I get a call from a church planter asking me about making him a list of potential meeting places for their new church to meet! Usually, their request comes prefaced with some sort of declaration that the one they had lined up fell through and now they need a place to meet and they need it fast! 

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.

The Ecclesiological Guides help a church planting team understand how NAMB defines a church plant. Download

Equipping missional Christians for Evangelizing, Disciple-making, Gathering people, and Establishing churches. Download

This page contains various versions of the Epoch resource which helps to equip lay people to live as missionaries. Download

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

As church planters and preachers, we are always looking for new things to say or new ways of saying things. We look for new insights on familiar passages of Scripture or something new to communicate from verses we have studied many times. So what new thing could I possibly say about the best-known story in the world? What can I say about the Christmas story that has not already been said many times before? Nothing! But why try to say something new about the most important story ever told?
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One question that most every church planter will wrestle with at some time in their ministry is, “Is it time to for me to move on to the next church plant?” As someone who has planted a few churches I know what a difficult question this can be. Leaving a congregation that you’ve planted can be painful. More often than not, planters have a tremendous amount of themselves and their family invested in the church plant. Yet, it is sometimes God’s desire to use the skills that He has entrusted to the planter to start a new congregation in another place. Below are two questions that may be helpful for planters who are wondering if God is calling them to plant their next church.

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

God called you to plant a church and you are trying to do everything to the best of your ability. You went through Basic Training for church Planters with your core group before you started the plant, and that was a great help.

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

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.   Download

The Luke 10:2b Prayer Strategy was born out of a desire for more church planting teams. The idea is to commit to relentlessly pray Luke 10:2b with a partner every day possible, in whatever way possible.  Download

The mentoring relationship is one of the most important relationships a church planter can have. Learn principles for effectively mentoring church planters. Download

This exciting new book has been written to introduce church planting to the spouse of potential church planters. Download

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. Download

Prayer is an act of obedience. Prayer is not a church planting or church health strategy. Neither is prayer the means by which we entice God to bring down a revival. Prayer is simply an act of submission to the will of the Father who asks His children to pray.

This PDF addresses the issue of prayer walking, as well as the following questions: Who can prayer walk? Where? What do they pray about? When? What can we expect from the Father? How can this ministry impact a church plant? Download

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. Download

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. Download

This resource presents an overview of the North American Mission field and how church planting can penetrate the culture with the gospel. Writers include Ed Stetzer, Tom Cheyney, and Richard Harris. Download

The resource guide provides both an outline of the Church Planting Process and the resources to engage in each phase of the process.  Church planting practitioners can quickly find tools for readiness, enlisting, equipping, and multiplication as well as other helpful tools. Download

Straight Street for Church Planters is a spiritual preparation guide for the church planting team member.  Download

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The Nehemiah Project is a unique partnership with our seminaries to discover students with a calling, giftedness, ability, and temperament for church planting.  Download

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. Download

The last thirty years I have been developing Hispanic church leaders and have come to understand how we operate. Although there are many characteristics of leadership in any diverse culture, let me share with you a few areas where we are strong and a few where we could improve. I hope that this will help in your understanding of Hispanic leaders. To read more click here.

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. Download

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