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• How Do I Build Momentum With The Launch Team March 12, 2010
  by Guest Blogger: Doug Foltz I worked with a planter once who had 40 adults on his launch team from day one. Three months later the number of people on the team had shrunk to 25 adults. What happened? The team lost momentum. Let’s start with the assumption that you will have at least 50 adults on your launch team. Most church planters are great at building t […]
• How Do I Build Momentum with the Launch Team March 12, 2010
  Pt. 1 Building a Launch Team is Priority One Pt. 2 How Big Should the Launch Team Be? Pt. 3 Who Should Be Excluded from the Church? Pt. 4 Should I use a launch team covenant? I worked with a planter once who had 40 adults on his launch team from day one.  Three months later the number of people on the team had shrunk to 25 adults.  What happened?  The team l […]
• How The Started: (A Break Story) March 12, 2010
  (My friend Eric gave me permission to tell this story in the book, which I share with great sensitivity...)A good friend from seminary moved to Ashburn, Virginia to start a church one year before I did. Eric was an incredible communicator; I know because I shared a preaching class with him. It was all we classmates could do to keep up with him. He was so goo […]
• 10 Church Planter Qualities March 11, 2010
  By Scott ThomasActs 29 President and Director The qualities of a successful basketball player are consistent. He or she can dribble, shoot, pass, play defense, rebound, play as a team, think, move quickly and work hard. They don't have to do all of these at the same level but all of the qualities characterize a succesful player at the highest level. Chu […]
• Three March 11, 2010
  WE PASSED OUR FINAL INSPECTION and got our Certificate of Occupancy! Thank you so much for praying; it really took a miracle for this to happen.Now that we have the Certificate we can start putting in the lights and furniture! There is so much to be done; thankfully we have tons of help!Here's my advice for the day: don't start a church and do a bu […]
• How They Started: The Well, Tallahasee March 11, 2010
  Dean Inserra started The Well in Tallahassee, Florida three years ago, and they're now reaching 600 people each week. They had 1,200 for Christmas and are expecting 2,000 for Easter.But you need to know the back-story. Because there are conditions that make or break a new church before it starts.Dean was born and raised in Tallahassee. He grew up in a M […]
• Join Us for a Boot Camp in 2010 March 11, 2010
  Acts 29 boot camps are a great way to meet real, live church-planters from all over. Some are working in an urban context, some have planted in a rural farm town. Some have multiple meeting sites, and some have added several missional communities this year. Some are many years into their plant and have sent multiple church plants out from their congregation, […]
• Send Your Best Men Out on Mission March 11, 2010
  By Scott ThomasActs 29 President and Director It won’t hurt the church if people are called away to go and make disciples elsewhere. It will hurt the mission if they stay. As I read about the church in Jerusalem and Antioch, I see them identifying, equipping and sending men to plant churches. In Acts 11:19-26, the Jerusalem church sent Barnabas to the city o […]
• Four March 10, 2010
  Can I just say that I love mission teams. 45 people from 6 churches are coming this week to help us! They are working on our building, passing out thousands of door hangers, serving and supporting us. I literally have no idea what we would do without them.I spent the evening at Sam's Club buying all kinds of stuff for the building. We have our Certifica […]
• Should I Use a Launch Team Covenant March 10, 2010
  By guest blogger: Doug Foltz Launch Team Covenants (as well as membership covenants) are about one thing: Expectations. In part 3, I talked about filters for deciding who should be on the launch team. The first two filters were beliefs and values. Early on, beliefs and values are merely words on paper. Unless the staff, leadership team and launch team live o […]