Church Planting

Church Conflict
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Speaker: Steve Childers "If you are a church planter, by its nature you are a conflict manager," said Childers.  There is a relationship between the church size and conflict.  The smaller your church, the greater the arena and likelihood an...
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Mobilizing Church Planters
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Speaker: Dr. Steve Ogne David Fairchild provides a good summary of the session on Mobilizing Church Planters .  Steve gives a few suggestions for finding and igniting a multiplication movement. What are we looking for when we think of a...
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Recruiting Leaders for a Church Planting Movement
"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few..." (Matthew 9:37b)  How do you raise and recruit leaders to change a city?  Dr. Steve Ogne states that, recruiting is NOT a long term solution.  Ogne believes that effective leadership development...
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Raising Leaders for Multiplication – Session at GCA
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Speaker: Dr. Steve Ogne Ogne's session presented a framework for raising up leaders in a local church.  One of the thoughts I've had for a month or so (I mentioned it about re-thinking the role of elders that I still...
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GCA Conference quotes
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CHURCH PLANTING NETWORKS  "Church plants that are part of a network are 400% more likely to succeed." Ed Stetzer new stats LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT "We've found that if you aim to develop leaders, you'll get what these people can do.  If...
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Ideas from GCA Church Planting Conference – Day 2
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Here are the sessions I attended today: Developing a Purpose & Mission, Determining Value & Styles (both taught from the infamous 600+ page GCA Church Planting Manual, so I won't quote these) and Redeemer's Global Cities Strategy.  Some ideas from...
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Church Planting – Coaching & Network Development
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Tomorrow I leave to the North America Church Planting Conference with David Fairchild. "The North America Church Planting Conference is an inter-denominational training event designed to equip church planters, coaches and supervisors to start, grow and multiply healthy, gospel-centered churches...
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Acts 29 Bloggers
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For those who are church planters, I've put together a list of Acts 29 pastors who have blogs.  My assumption is that a lot of these planters will post on issues of church planting and being the church. David Fairchild...
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Twenty Leadership Questions for Building a City within the City
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The Acts 29 site is rolling out a blog and Mark Driscoll posted Twenty Leadership Questions for Building a City within the City for those who are in the church (or are considering) church planting.  These leadership questions are based...
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This seems to be the month of conference announcements as we all plan our new year.  I want to add another one for you to consider:  The 2007 Multi–Site Church Conference (the model is not multi-site through video venue but...
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