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A lens of church planting resources that have helped me in starting a new church in the Bethany area of Beaverton, Oregon.
Church Resources
- Sermon Spice
- Give your message some motion. Our searchable library and downloadable media is the centerpiece of the on-demand service we provide.
- Reproducing Church Resources
- Resources from Community Christian Church and the NewThing Network.
- LIFECHURCH.TV OPEN
- Free Creative Content for Churches.
- Willow Creek Association
- Resources from Willow Creek Community Church.
- Wired Churches
- A ministry of Granger Community Church.
- Creative Pastors
- Life and Leadership Resources featuring Ed Young.
- North Point Resources
- Resources from Andy Stanley and North Point Community Church.
- Seacoast All Access
- The Seacoast All Access website is a collection of resources, links, and other materials produced by and for Seacoast Church.
- Pastors.com
- Resources from Rick Warren and Saddleback Church.
FREE Church Planting Resources
- FREE Church Planting Checklist
- What is the checklist?
The checklist is a list of actions that Church Planting Solutions recommend every church planter consider doing. Not every church planter will need to perform every action on the list. Other church planters will need to do some actions not on the list. In the end though, this is a great starting place for a church planter to begin building a giant "to-do" list or launch plan for starting a new church. - FREE Church Planting Equipment List
- This list was developed by compiling a comprehensive list of items purchased by a dozen church launches. The list is continually being refined and updated to include additional items a new church may consider purchasing. The church planter should consider the list as a list of items he should consider purchasing.
- FREE Demographic Information
- The Church Marketing Solutions offers the following services:
1. Carrier route maps - We work with our customers to determine which carrier routes to include in a mailing. We provide a map of the routes so you can see exactly which homes will receive your mailing.
2. Carrier route and zip code counts - We can provide counts by zip code, carrier route, or within a radius of a specific address.
3. Demographic reports - We provide free demographic reports showing the characteristics of your community. - FREE Outreach Plan
- Eight page Word document on how to put together an Outreach plan for starting a new church.
- FREE Marketing Plan
- Six page Word document on how to put together a marketing plan for starting a new church.
- FREE Networking Plan
- Three page Word document on how to put together a community networking plan for starting a new church.
- FREE Sample Launch Plan
- Twenty-five page sample launch plan for starting a new church.
- FREE Conference Presentation
- Purpose Driven Church Planting Notes presented by Todd Wilson of Passion for Planting.
- FREE Paper on Developing a Philosophy of Ministry
- This is a copy of a paper on developing a philosophy of ministry for your new church plant (one of the first things a church planter should do)
- FREE Church Planting bibliography
- Comprehensive list of helpful resources for church planters.
- FREE Church Planter Assessment Tool
- This is an online assessment for potential church planters.
- FREE Facility Resources
- Finding a meeting place is a major issue for most new churches.
- FREE Staffing Resources
- Staffing is one of the most important things you will do. Spend the necessary time doing your homework. Don't cut corners. Check out this Top 5 List of Staffing Mistakes made by church planters:
Church Planting Books
Launch: Starting a New Church from Scratch
Amazon Price: $10.39 (as of 12/09/2009) 
Planting Missional Churches
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 12/09/2009)
Church Planting from the Ground Up
Amazon Price: (as of 12/09/2009)
Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Guide for New Churches and Those Desiring Renewal
Amazon Price: $18.47 (as of 12/09/2009)
Church Planting Landmines
Amazon Price: $15.00 (as of 12/09/2009)
Tim Keller and Church Planting
Why Start New Churches
"In America we are closing 7 more churches a day, than we are opening!! -Charles Arn"
"The United States of America remains the third largest unchurched nation in the world!
"Church Planting is the single most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven! -C. Peter Wagner"
"In 1900 there were 27 churches for every 10,000 Americans. In 1950 there were 17 churches for every 10,000 Americans. In 1996 there were 11 churches for every 10,000 Americans. -George Gallup
"Evangelical churches have failed to gain an additional 2% of the American population in the past 50 years. In other words, we are not even reaching our children! -George Barna
"Estimated America Unchurched Population - 195 million (January 1996, Gallup Princeton Religion Report)."
"Half of all churches last year did not add one new member through conversion growth. -Charles Arn"
"During the last 10 years, the combined communicant membership of all Protestant Denominations has declined by 9.5% (4,498,242) while the national population has increased by 11.4% (24,153,000). -ASCG Journal of Church Growth"
"The United States of America remains the third largest unchurched nation in the world!
"Church Planting is the single most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven! -C. Peter Wagner"
"In 1900 there were 27 churches for every 10,000 Americans. In 1950 there were 17 churches for every 10,000 Americans. In 1996 there were 11 churches for every 10,000 Americans. -George Gallup
"Evangelical churches have failed to gain an additional 2% of the American population in the past 50 years. In other words, we are not even reaching our children! -George Barna
"Estimated America Unchurched Population - 195 million (January 1996, Gallup Princeton Religion Report)."
"Half of all churches last year did not add one new member through conversion growth. -Charles Arn"
"During the last 10 years, the combined communicant membership of all Protestant Denominations has declined by 9.5% (4,498,242) while the national population has increased by 11.4% (24,153,000). -ASCG Journal of Church Growth"
Church Planting Organizations
- S T A D I A - New Church Strategies - Christian Church Planting & Church Multiplication
- Stadia: New Church Strategies is a new ministry dedicated to planting independent Christian Churches all across North America.
- The Acts 29 Network
- A network of pastors seeking to help qualified leaders who desire to plant new churches and replant declining churches.
- Passion For Church Planting
- Church Planting Support Organization that exists to promote church planting and to help church planters start more effective churches!
- New Churches
- This one is Ed Stetzer's site on church starting. This one is loaded with great resources on everything from the emerging church to house churches. It also includes links and discussion boards.
- Glocalnet
- Glocalnet was born out of a dream - a dream that followers of Jesus Christ and their churches would be so radically changed from the inside out that those disciples, their families, their churches, their neighborhoods and their work places would never be the same. And as a result of a transformational experience, these disciples and their churches would form partnerships that would transform their communities and touch the world. Groups of regionally-located churches or churches within the same city (clusters of churches) would link arms to provide cities and nations good news in all arenas - fresh water, nutritional food, 21st century healthcare, competitive education and spiritual truth.
- Welcome to Vision USA
- Saturating influential and rapidly growing cities across America with impacting churches.
- New Thing Network
- A network of reproducing churches started by Community Christian Church in Naperville, IL.
- Purpose Driven Church Planting
- Purpose Driven Church Planting. Applying the Purpose Driven model to start new churches. This organization provides conferences and coaching and lots more.
- The Orchard Group
- For over 50 years Orchard Group, formerly "Go Ye" Chapel Mission, has held to one single purpose: Planting churches.
We know of no more effective way to take the Gospel to the masses of people in New York and through the Northeast than planting new churches. - ChurchPlanters.Com
- Here at ChurchPlanters.com we see ourselves as a small part of this kingdom movement building a growing network of church planters and emerging church leaders committed to reaching people who are disconnected from Christ and the church and growing healthy churches with exponential impact.
Business Books That Help Church Planters
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 12/10/2009)
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 12/10/2009)
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)
Amazon Price: $14.58 (as of 12/10/2009)
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Amazon Price: $8.37 (as of 12/10/2009)
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Amazon Price: $9.11 (as of 12/10/2009)
Squidoo Lens for Church Planters
- So What's With This Emerging Church?
- So you want to know about the emerging church. Well, lets keep in mind that the emerging church is not an official label or group or movement or denomination of any kind. Because no one person or group of people speak on behalf of the emerging church, it is perhaps best understood by the diversity of people and communities that self-identify under the term. The last thing I want to do is define it for you. I will simply point you in helpful directions, so click away friend! For the benifit of others I encourage you to rate this lens, also feel free to contact me with the link in about section.
- Church Planting Resources
- A starting point for people interested in or in the middle of church planting, church starting and church multiplication.
- Multi-Site Church
- The lens to learn more about the Multi-Site Church movement. What is a multi-site church you ask?
- All Things House Church
- House Church, Organic Church, Simple Church...
Interested in learning more about House Church? If so, the check out the links and resources listed below.
And remember, at the end of the day, it is still about the Wine, not the Wineskin. - Church Marketing Sucks
- Church Marketing Sucks exists to frustrate, educate and motivate the church to communicate, with uncompromising clarity, the truth of Jesus Christ. Started in 2004, Church Marketing Sucks is a part of the Center for Church Communication, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the church matter.
- Church Planting: It's Not Rocket Science. Or is it?
- This lens was created to promote the planting of God-centered evangelical churches throughout the nations. There is an diverse listing of links to other church planting lenses, as well as a collection of resources to explore.
Widely divergent views exist within evangelicalism regarding the subject of "church planting" and how to go about it. Some people advocate a very simple, uncluttered, unstructured approach to planting a new church, beginning with a few families and meeting in homes. Others pursue a "high-yield" or "high impact" strategy, requiring months of preparation before a formal launch designed to attract hundreds of people to the first worship service.
Church Management Software
For Church Planters
- Fellowship One CMS
- Web-based church management software. Fellowship One is the world's first Enterprise Church Management Solution (eCMS). Fellowship One is a web-based, on-demand, eCMS suitable for churches of any size or denomination.
- Church Software by ACS Technologies - Church Management Software Home
- ACS Technologies provides industry-leading church software, church management software, school administration, and denominational office software and services. Software and Services for your Church, School, or Denominational Office.
- PeopleDrivenSoftware.Com - Church Management Software
- People Driven Software is an innovative package of church administration software to manage and greatly enhance the ministry of your church. The goal of our church membership tracking software is to make it the best available to expand the kingdom of God in your church!
- Web Based Church Software by CCB
- Church Software to Enable the Equipping Church. The Leader in Web Based Church Software.
- Logos - Welcome
- The leading developer of high-quality,innovative solutions for churches, schools, and other non-profit organizations.
- Shelby Systems
- Innovative Solutions, Infinite Possibilities.
Portable Church
When starting a church you will probably not have a permanent facility. You will need to be portable. Here are some companies that can help!
- Portable Church Industries
- Launching a new church can be a daunting task, full of challenges and obstacles to overcome. PCI is dedicated to assisting portable churches. With ten years experience, we are your one-source-solution in making the most of your rented facility.
- Church on Wheels
- See why you should purchase your trailer through us. We specialize in portable staging, seating, sound and lighting equipment, and all types of support and transportation equipment for mobile churches. We have been in business for over 35 years, and have a oyal following in churches, malls, hotels, convention centers, professional sports franchises & movie theaters. We have built on our business by providing our customers what they need.
Organic Church Planting
Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens
Amazon Price: $15.57 (as of 12/09/2009)
Inside the Organic Church: Learning from 12 Emerging Congregations
Amazon Price: $14.25 (as of 12/09/2009)
Creating Communities of the Kingdom: New Testament Models of Church Planting
Amazon Price: $11.69 (as of 12/09/2009)
Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices
Amazon Price: $12.23 (as of 12/09/2009)
Houses that Change the World
Amazon Price: $8.79 (as of 12/09/2009)
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Church! at Bethany is located in the Bethany, Oregon area. Their Mission is to "Connect the Unconnected" to God and others through Jesus Christ.
by mpayne1970
I am a church planter in the Bethany area of Beaverton. I have a lovely wife and two great kids. (more)
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