Category: General Church Planting

How to Develop a Budget
Home > Blog > How to Develop a Budget How to Develop a Budget By Ed Stetzer Where does all the money go? The question every church planter must ask. Money follows to vision, so the type of church you plan to start significantly influences the money required to start. […]

Success Is a Weekly Agenda
By Ken Adams: My ministry friend, Brian Dodd, says that, “Success is a daily agenda.” I agree with Brian, but I’ve found that my life revolves around a weekly agenda more than a daily agenda. Granted, days make weeks and weeks make months and years, so ultimately the idea is […]

How did this small church more than triple in size in less than 3 years?
By Greg Curtis: Hint: it wasn’t outreach. Watch my 23 minute video interview with Robby Smith who pastors Redemption Church, a small church that has tripled in size in less than 3 years (including growth in during the quarantine). I love this guy, his leaders and his church. They are […]

Signs of a Distracted Leader
By Shawn Lovejoy: Focus is powerful. Leaders who are thriving during this current season of uncertainty keep the best of their energy and attention leveraged in the same direction. There are few limits to what relentlessly focused leaders and teams can accomplish. The opposite is also true… Distracted leaders and […]

Millennials, Gen Z and Your Church with Benjamin Windle
By unSeminary: Thanks so much for joining us for another unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Benjamin Windle. A native Australian, Benjamin has worked as a youth and young adult pastor in the US and currently helps churches develop Generational Intelligence in reaching Millennials and Gen Z through an assortment […]

Episode 542: Current Strategy for a Young Church Plant
By New Churches: In Episode 542 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss how a young church plant can rebuild after COVID. “Should a struggling church plant go back to core team phase if COVID has affected it in such a way where it has not grown?” In […]

5 Simple Questions About the Future Every Leader Should Be Asking Right Now
By Carey Nieuwhof: Knowing what you should do as a leader in normal times is hard enough. As you may have noticed, these aren’t normal times. Trying to figure out what to do in the midst of a global crisis is so much more complicated. So how do you cut […]

The Battle to Save Our Disenfranchised Church? It's Not in Our Buildings. It's Online.
By The Church.Digital: David Kinnaman of Barna quoted the stat, and he’s way smarter than me. 30% of people will leave the church during this COVID season. Mathematically, a Christian research company is claiming your church will potentially lose 30% of your pre-COVID attendance in the coming months. Most churches, […]