Blog Posts
Info Meeting: Why Distance Residency is the Future of Church Planting
You Don’t Need More Staff–You Need a Pathway Discover how your church or network can equip a church planter without building a residency from scratch. Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 1:00pm Eastern Most churches never send out a planter—not for lack of vision, but because they don’t have a scalable […]
Newsletter April 2025
Healthy Churches Do This
In the Middle of the Marketplace
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 […]
Newsletter March 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 […]
Newsletter February 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 […]
Newsletter January 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 […]
Newsletter December 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 […]
Newsletter November 2024
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 […]
Newsletter October 2024
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 […]
Newsletter September 2024
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 […]