Author: Passion4Planting

A Time of Transition Planting Amidst A Pandemic Just as God’s presence could never be contained inside the four walls of the temple, so God’s people were never meant to be contained within the four walls of a church building. Even if your church doesn’t own a building, COVID-19 has […]

A Unique Calling More You were made for a specific purpose. God has given you specific gifts and passions. He’s called you to use those gifts and passions to bring him glory. As Frederick Buechner once put it, “The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness […]

New Beginnings Developing Bylaws You probably didn’t answer the call to plant a church because you were itching to develop church bylaws, did you? Let’s face: it most church planters wouldn’t know where to begin if they had to create bylaws from scratch. But that’s OK. You’re not called to […]

The Connected Church 4 Essential Ingredients When a new person shows up at your church and is interested in connecting beyond Sunday morning, what clear next step do you offer them to take? Do you give them more than one option or just one? Are the steps simple enough that every leader […]

Multiplying Leaders Leadership Pipeline Have you ever heard the term “leadership pipeline”? In church leadership circles it’s a term that’s frequently thrown around, but often misunderstood. It does sound like a great idea, something every church would benefit from. But, what is it and how do you develop one at […]

Multiplying Though the Pandemic Church Multiplication Strategy Is your church ready to start thinking in terms of multiplication? Consider developing a church multiplication strategy. We’ve developed a template to help you think through the questions you need to answer to become a multiplying church. Download our free template. Then spend time […]

Fuel for Ministry Recruiting A Prayer Team One of the most enjoyable tasks of church planting is recruiting prayer partners. Be honest for a second. What would you rather do – ask people to support you financially or with their prayers? For most planters the answer is prayer. While you […]

Love To Multiply MissionHub Could you use some help mobilizing your church to take the gospel to the places they live, work and play? CRU (formally Campus Crusade for Christ) figured you might, and created the MissionHub app as a way to spur your congregation on towards living a life as an ambassador of […]

Together In 2020 Building Momentum At Passion for Planting, we tell church planters that one of their main roles as a leader is to allocate finite resources to the critical growth path. That’s how they can build momentum within and through their organization. In doing so, the team stays on […]