Planting Space

Round 1 Round 2
Round 3 will focus on how to make a home office work well.
IDEA #1 - Wi-Fi Hotspots
If you have a home office wi-fi hotspots will be your best friend.  Plan at least a couple of hours a day out of the house at a hotspot.  This will help you not go stir [...]

I just never get tired of top 10 lists.
Here’s a great one with some insight into church leadership. Of course they don’t all apply, but the top 3 really struck me:

[New Leaders] persist in still doing their old jobs, rather than their new ones. As a result, they don’t delegate; they burn themselves out while [...]

In Round 1, I highlighted some of the benefits of both home offices and rented offices.  Round 2 will focus on ideas to making a rented office work.  Do you have any additional ideas.  Post a comment.
IDEA #1 - Fundraise and then Fundraise some more.
One option is to fundraise the needed money for office space.  [...]

Going it alone can be really scary.  Who do you call when you face that decision or situation that you’ve never faced before?  God provides the answers in Elders.  These Shepherds are to provide oversight and a covering for Pastors.  Regardless of what your structure will look like, you should consider how you can implement [...]

Disclaimer: I’m a frugal guy.
A common question of church planters is whether or not do rent office space.  Let’s start with the advantages of rented space.

An office in a visible place will serve as a great marketing tool.  It lets people know that you are legit.
Office space provides a place to hold meetings, seminars, small [...]

It can be dangerous to make church too much like a business; there are still, of course, some important lessons to be learned. I read an online article at cnbc.com about the 10 biggest mistakes small business startups make. All church planters should pay attention to these things that bring a new business down:
#8 The [...]

Computers were supposed to bring us into a paperless society like 10 years ago, right? They certainly have made us more efficient and given us all kinds of tools we never had before. It is tempting to spend all your time as a planter sitting in front of the computer: you can get things done, [...]

Developing leaders is a common struggle for church planters. I learned a good lesson in leadership development last night. While in Charlotte at LifePointe, I worked really hard on a particular group of people. I baptized most of them, took ownership in teaching them, and frequently challenged them to leadership. I [...]

Sometime in the last year I heard one of those ministry stories that may be evangelical legend, but makes a good point:
2 teams of relief workers arrived on site in a famine-stricken third-world area. Both teams were immediately pressed by crowds as they got off the plane. The first team, seeing the need, started handing [...]