Planting Space

If you are planting in the Fall chances are you are thinking about what equipment you need to purchase.  Tip: If you’re not you should.  To hit a homerun with your equipment purchases, you want everything to be mobile and multi-functional.  You want the flexibility to set up church or run an event from virtually [...]

We are often asked what equipment a new church needs to obtain.  There is no one answer to this question.  Church Planting Solutions provides an initial ‘worst case’ list of equipment. This comprehensive list includes every possible piece of equipment that might be needed. The list is useful for estimating equipment budgets and for communicating [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

Most church plants cannot afford to have office space in the early days. One of the problems that creates is how to share files easily between staff members who are working out of their homes. Many companies are now offering free online storage for files. ADrive is currently offering 50GB of free [...]

A friend of mine and fellow church planter emailed this week to tell me that over the past weekend both of his trailers were stolen. All of the sound and lighting equipment, all of the children’s equipment, all off the tables, all of the projectors, gone. Church was literally unplugged and stripped down. [...]