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- May 13, 2025
Adapting Ministry To Reach More People Religious Landscape Study Before planting a church, one of the most powerful steps you can take is understanding the spiritual landscape of your community. The Pew Research Religious Landscape Study is a fantastic interactive tool to help you do just that. This map breaks down religious affiliation, beliefs, and read more…
- April 9, 2025
Healthy Churches Do This Your Primary Role What are your main responsibilities as a church planter? Your primary responsibility is to lead and equip. You need to constantly and consistently cast vision, so people can see where God is leading the church. But you also need to equip them with the knowledge and training they read more…
- April 9, 2025
In the early years of the church, Christians were oftentimes considered atheists by their neighbors. That’s because Christians didn’t travel to a dedicated temple to worship their deity. Instead, they referred to themselves as the temple (1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19). They knew without a doubt that the church wasn’t a building, but a group of read more…
- March 11, 2025
Helping Newcomers Connect An Essential Ingredient One essential ingredient of every assimilation strategy is collecting contact information from newcomers. As our friend Greg Curtis, creator of Climbing The Assimilayas, says, “She’s not your girlfriend until you have her number, and they’re not your guest until you have their contact info because you can’t even begin to read more…
- February 12, 2025
Prayer – The Greatest Work Prayer Team Strategy No team you develop will be more important than your intercessory prayer team. There will be no partner more important, no project more significant than the army of prayer warriors you recruit to intercede for your church plant. Getting your prayer team up and running early in read more…
- January 20, 2025
Healthy Leaders, Healthy Churches Emotionally Fit How’s your heart? If you’re a pastor, you’ve probably asked others this question recently because you care about the emotional health of the people God’s placed under your care. But what about you? How’s your heart, pastor? Jesus wants you to be healthy emotionally as much as he wants read more…
- December 9, 2024
Fueling Generosity Fundraising Strategy Template If you’re feeling the pinch in your finances this time of year, remember that God is the God who provides (Matthew 6:30-32; Psalm 145:15-16; Genesis 22:14). Whether by providing a ram to be sacrificed, splitting a sea, healing sickness, or providing the finances to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, read more…