The greatest mistake I ever made in trying to plant a new church was working without a team or a network to support me. The entire "church planting vision" you so enthusiastically embrace can quickly turn into "Nightmare on Elm Street" without a net; and you would be safer walking a tightrope with a safety net than planting a church without one.
So I decided to create this website to encourage you to look for a way to connect with others, so that you can be simultaneously thrilled, stimulated, reprimanded, loved, rewarded, held accountable, supplemented, supported in the vital work of starting new churches. Hey, let us help you hold the ropes!
If you already know the value of such a network, we would love to hear your story and perhaps even publish it here or place a link to your blog/website to encourage others along the journey.
Photo courtesy of Xiol (Flickr member).
PLEASE RATE THIS SITE (if you are a fellow lensmaster) and leave your feedback/suggestions/ideas below.
If you know of other church planting networks, please leave a comment here or send me an e-mail. I would love to hear from you and know how to improve this site for everyone on the net. Thanks!
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Senora_M
This is a great site. I did mission work in Mexico for 2 years and was mostly by myself--really rough and didn't really work. I worked with university students. I agree that it's very important to work with other to be "successful." God bless. 5*s and lensroll Posted July 27, 2007 |
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pastorpaulasamoah
h Shalom and Aloha, Ministries, Houses of Prayer and Prayer Warriors Posted April 25, 2007 |
Great site and great idea. Fellow Church Planters let's get behind this idea and work together for the Kingdom.
Posted December 27, 2006
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Online Communities for Church Planters
- SeedStories : : adventures in church planting
- Articles, stories, opinion polls, message boards, e-mail and online chat. Committed to creating a safe, online community where church planters can connect with others from around the world, grow in their faith, and explore a myriad of digital resources.
A Worldwide Listing of Church Planting Networks
If you know of other evangelical networks, please send me a link!
- Acts 29 Network
- Acts 29 is network of pastors from around the nation and world whose dream is to help qualified leaders called by God plant new churches and replant declining churches.
- Association of Related Churches - A Catalyst for Planting Churches
- The Association of Related Churches, a catalyst for planting churches,focuses on building strong relationships between pastors and ministry leaders.
- Church Multiplication Associates (CMA)
- Church Multiplication Associates (CMA) exists to support and encourage church multiplication movements by developing new resources focused on reproducing disciples, leaders, churches and movements from the place where you're planted and finishing at the ends of the earth.
- Church Planting Village (SBC)
- One-stop shop for church planting in the SBC: resource library, multi-site strategies, sermon shop, equipping resources, assessment, and much more. Developed by the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
- Emerging Church Network
- ECN is a network of catalytic church planters working to develop authentic faith communities (AFC's) among emerging and unreached people groups in Texas. AFC's comprise a minimum of six people and are typically no larger than fifty.
- Emerging Leadership Initiative (ELI)
- ELI seeks to establish a multiplying network of missional churches that envision, equip and empower young emerging leaders to plant innovative churches throughout America. ELI was founded on the belief that a cross-denominational dedicated effort is needed to directly address the expanding postmodern generation and their barriers to church and faith.
- Fellowship of Church Planters, Rhode Island
- The Fellowship of Church Planters was established in 1985 in Rhode Island and now consists of a network of interdependent teams in New England. We also facilitate teams in other parts of the USA and in other countries. The teams are modeled after the apostolic bands in the New Testament and are committed to planting reproducing networks of house churches.
- Global Church Advancement
- GCA's mission is to establish Kingdom Partnerships through which leaders are equipped to start, grow and multiply Gospel-centered churches among all nations. A Gospel-centered Church is a church that centers (focuses) its ministry primarily on facilitating spiritual, social and cultural renewal through the transforming power of the gospel-in both word and deed.
- Glocalnet
- Glocalnet is a network of churches worldwide, clustered together regionally or in cities. These clusters pool their resources to produce disciples, multiply churches, transform local communities and impact the world. After just three years, 200 churches are affiliated with glocalnet. Forty-two new churches have started, and approximately 8,000 people have been trained in church planting, community transformation and nation building.
- Grace Church Planting Ministries
- Grace Church Planting Ministries is a network created to promote cross-cultural evangelism and the planting of God-centered evangelical churches throughout the nations.
- MissionCatalyst
- Mission Catalyst is an association of growing churches that are outreach-focused, grace-oriented, fully committed to God, and proclaim a common view of Biblical truth. Mission Catalyst began in August 2004 in response to God's call to plant churches that never stop making an ever-larger impact for the kingdom.
- NewThing
- New Thing's mission is to be a catalyst for a movement of reproducing churches relentlessly dedicated to helping people find their way back to God.
- Northwest Church Planting
- The purpose of Northwest Church Planting is to reach people with the Good News of Jesus Christ by drawing, developing, and deploying leaders to start healthy, reproductive churches. To accomplish this, they work cooperatively with local churches, seminaries and denominations.
- Orchard Group
- Orchard Group identifies dynamic locations for new churches in New York City and the broader Northeast, hires staff, and provides start-up funds to get the new church underway. The organization provides 100% of staff salaries in the first year of the new church, with the church picking up increasingly larger portions of salaries from year two through self-support at the end of year three or year four.
- Sovereign Grace Ministries
- Sovereign Grace Ministries exists to start, establish, and strengthen local churches with the gospel, for God's glory. They are a family of churches in six countries, and provide ongoing teaching and training to other church-planting ministries on several continents.
- Vision USA
- Vison USA is a multi-denominational church planting movement that seeks to intentially start rapidly growing congregations in urban centers. These churches not only have a commitment to a specific metro area, but also have a broader vision to start churches across the United States and the world.
- Xpansion - Church Planting
- Xpansion seeks to develop a network that actively: Envisions, Trains, Empowers, and Coaches emerging teams to equip Jesus followers for the work of the ministry in their circles of accountability and beyond.
- Urban Expression | Creative church planting in the inner city (United Kingdom)
- Associates Urban Expression is an urban mission agency that recruits, equips, deploys and networks self-financing teams pioneering creative and relevant expressions of the Christian church in under-churched areas of the inner city.
- Waleswide (UK)
- A new church planting and strengthening network for Wales.
- The North West Partnership (UK) Church Planting
- North West Partnership UK
