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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Go and Make Disciples! Disciple Making Strategy Template      If someone were to ask you, “What’s your church’s strategy for making disciples?”, how would you respond? Can you answer that question confidently? If you don’t have clarity about it, how will anyone else? Don’t just get busy doing church things […]

Context Is King Understanding What’s Important      Our world is changing and countries like our own are becoming more diverse. According to demographers, there will no longer be a majority race in the United States twenty-five years from now. That’s why it’s essential as church planters to understand how our […]

Leaving A Legacy Budget Worksheet Template Does the idea of becoming a reproducing church scare you? Are you unsure what you would need to do to become a reproducing church? There are many simple ways your church can be involved in planting new churches. In fact, every church is one […]

59 Commands We Can’t Afford To Ignore Groups Strategy Template Do you have a vision for how new people in your church will build meaningful, transformative relationships with others in the church? The solution most churches offer to meet this need is some flavor of smaller groups. Small groups are […]

Vision and Culture Clarifying Values Does your church have values? Yes, it does. Just like you have personal values. You may have never recognized or named those values, but beneath the surface they’re there and influence every decision you make. The same is true with a church.  Values are the […]

You Can Do It, We Can Help How Do We Incorporate? Have you incorporated as a church? You don’t have to do this to make disciples and plant a church, but incorporation does offer a church many benefits. One of those is the legal protection that it offers church leaders. […]