At Passion 4 Planting we recently conducted a survey of church planters who are currently in Years 2 - 5 of the life of the new church. Here’s what we found:
Churches who had a launch team of 41 or more people had an average opening Sunday attendance of 340 people and were more likely to be planning to start a second campus, venue, church. Churches who had a launch team 40 and under had an average opening Sunday attendance of 142. They were also more likely to struggle to develop enough leaders (67% vs. 50%), have enough funds (57% vs. 40%) and recruit enough volunteers (56% vs. 43 %) to run the ministries of the church.
This highlights in practical ways the importance of building a launch team prior to starting the church. We’ll continue to post more results from this survey over the next few weeks. We’ll also put some practical tips for building the launch team in the next few days.
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