Planting Space

If one of the main reasons church planters start new churches is to reach people who aren’t connected to other churches, why do so many church planters lose this focus so quickly after launch? The demands of “maintaining the machine” and “feeding the sheep” steal away the time and energy that was previously focused [...]

Planting a church is much like building a house. It takes many thousands of dollars, requires numerous specialized skills, consists of hundreds of discrete actions and takes a “general contractor” to make sure all the pieces come together just right.
A church planter that doesn’t use project management is just like someone who builds a [...]

We love project management! Why? Because good project management keeps church planters focused on people. Planters are naturally wired for people… the problem is they tend to either get so focused on people that they never get to the details that need done (e.g. legal paperwork) or they get so bogged down in [...]

Have you ever noticed that Tiger Woods, Alan Iverson, and Peyton Manning all have coaches? Doesn’t it seem like someone of that caliber wouldn’t need a coach? Wrong! Everyone needs a coach. In church planting, just like sports, the coach’s primary role is to bring out the best in the person being coached.
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An Ed Stetzer study on church plant attendance (click here) shows a direct correlation between the training received by a church planter and attendance. There are many training options (often called Church Planter Boot Camps), each with their own strengths. Some are more theologically based, some very practical, some very inspiring, each [...]

NewChurches.com is relaunching in the next week! This new website will be the place to go to get the best church planting resources and find out what’s going on in the world of church planting. This site is a partnership between Ed Stetzer, Passion for Planting and Church Plant Media
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Formal assessment can be as short as one day, but is more often 3-5 days in length. A formal assessment is often done in a group setting with other potential planters and includes a combination of interviews, group exercises, essays, and assignments. The evaluation team observes the potential planters in a number of different situations. [...]

Assessment is the process of discerning whether a potential church planter is called to plant a church and whether the person is right for a specific new work. Research conducted by Dr. Charles Ridley identified 13 performance dimensions on success factors for church planters. (read more)
It is crucial for the church planter to understand their [...]

This is the first in a series of posts about the non-negotiables in church planting…
There are several elements of a church plant that we feel are non-negotiables. Whether you are talking about Church Planting Solutions or New Life Christian Church, we won’t work with or support a church plant (or church planter) that [...]

Bob Franquiz had a great blog post about Why People Choose a Church. He basically says the church must be good and it must be close. I agree. People will go to a church that is not perfect or their favorite simply because it is good and it is close.
I frequently talk [...]