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While this post may be useful for individual church planters, it is really intended for either churches that are considering planting new churches or for people who are responsible for making decisions about starting multiple churches in a region. It is written from a North American perspective, and therefore does not include particular nuances of [...]

Thinking about green everything today, thanks to Saint Patrick’s Day, and decided to write about how even new churches can be more environmentally friendly. Here are a few suggestions that may be practical for you. Please feel free to comment, add stories about what your church is doing, or make other suggestions. Go virtually paperless- [...]

The core values of a new church help form the foundation of who and what the church is about. They help clarify the new church’s practices and interactions and help explain why the church does what it does. When trying to distill values in general into a few core values, churches may find it helpful [...]

Two recent books have been particularly useful to me as one who cares about engaging local church planting from a global perspective. One is JD Payne’s Stranger Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission. This 2012 publication explores the evangelistic possibilities inherent in globalization. It encourages the Church in the West to pay attention to the [...]

O.K. I confess. I am an obsessive assessor. Almost as soon as I meet people I pop the questions, “So tell me, have you ever started anything from scratch? What has given you the greatest sense of satisfaction in your life? In what ways do you usually associate with people who are different than you?” [...]

My first church planting experience was 32 years ago on an Apache reservation in Arizona. I was a few months old as a Christian, and on my second mission trip. The Apache pastor prayed about starting a church in an area of the reservation where there were no churches, and I questioned why we weren’t [...]

A new article released by Leadership Network claims that there are now over 5,000 multisite churches in North America, and that the rate of their growth now outpaces the growth of the numbers of mega-churches. There are all kinds of other important findings too. For example, multisite churches reach more people than large single site [...]