Category: Newsletter
Newsletter — January 2017
New Year, New Vision Church Planter Training It’s been said, “God doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies the called.” If God’s called you to plant a church, he’s probably also calling you to prepare to plant. Having a calling doesn’t guarantee success in church planting. Passion. Vision will only take […]
Newsletter — November 2016
Thankful to be a Part of Planting Churches Keeping You Up At Night? Dear Church Planter, what keeps you up at night? Good News: You’re not the only one that has trouble sleeping! The pre-launch phase of starting a new church can be stressful, exciting, stretching, demanding, etc. So much […]
Newsletter — October 2016
Church Planters Dig Deep in the Fall What is Passion for Planting? Are you a network? Are you managing partner? What do you do? Passion for Planting is the church planting ministry of New Life Christian Church located in Northern Virginia. Our residency program prepares future church planters to start […]
Newsletter — September 2016
First Ever Exponential Regional Conference! Exponential Regional DC Map Here’s a sampling of points on the map of the folks who attended the Expo Regional DC conference . Just what we hoped for – people from our region were able to drive in for this 2-day event. If you were able to […]
Newsletter — August 2016
School is Back in Session FREE Ministry Training Courses At Passion for Planting we’ve been busy creating free ministry training courses that inspire and equip Christians leaders to serve the Lord’s church more effectively. We’ve broken the courses into three focuses: New Church Development (Church Planting Nuts and Bolts) Practical […]
Newsletter — July 2016
Summer’s Here and the Time is Right Timing is Everything: Why Your Pre-Launch Phase Matters We want to jump in right now, and launch next month—a recipe for disaster—regardless of how much talent and passion you may have. In our microwave, instant gratification society, we tend to rush things that need […]
Newsletter — June 2016
The Journey Begins Road to Church Multiplication Podcast Brett Andrews planted New Life Christian church in the Washington DC area in the 1990s with the vision to reach lost people in a metropolitan area that would have an impact on the world. This podcast, produced by Exponential, dives into his […]
Newsletter — May 2016
Church Planter Resources FREE Church Planter Self-Assessments Self-Assessments are simply measuring your responses in one venue and using them to predict how you perform or respond in another venue. We use assessments because they can save us time and effort in learning to appreciate and appropriate the areas in which we […]
Newsletter – April 2016
Helping Church Planters Coach’s Corner Ever wonder why some people are just not happy or content? Or, have you ever met someone who suffers from a blindspot and everyone around them is aware but they are oblivious? Do you relate? Creed Branson introduced a series in January addressing Seven Character […]
Newsletter – March 2016
Welcome! Residency Program The goal of our 10-month program is to train and equip a small group of those who are called to plant a church by walking them through the process. Through the course of the residency our cohort will write vision and mission statements, develop their launch plan, preach […]