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Recently, I had a conversation with a church planter that reminded me of the most critical decision most church plants will ever make. You’ve raised initial support and launched successfully. You’ve been in your initial location doing the portable church thing for a while. People are serving and a sense of community has begun to [...]

One of the first questions every church planter (after, “Why won’t you turn the music down?”) will face is “When will we move into our own building?” The school, theater, cardboard box is fine for today, but what they really want to know is when we’ll be a “real church”. This begins as a solo, [...]

Let’s be honest, doing church in a portable environment is a pain. Whether you have three volunteers and one trailer or several 18-wheelers and a cast of hundreds it is hard to face setting up and tearing down, setting up and tearing down, setting up and tearing down weekend after weekend after weekend. Then there’s [...]

Through the years of church planting involvement as a strategist, coach, and planter, it is amazing how often the operational spaces of a new church become a major dilemma. Having a space demonstrates a degree of permanence and community investment for the otherwise “profile-less” church. As the members of the new community of faith increasingly [...]

How would you like to have a billion dollars worth or real estate to help with your newest church plant? We did and it was better than we expected. We actually started our current congregation under a tree in a beach park—illegally. Not real fun when the policeman would slowly check us out each week [...]

This week begins an eight week scattered focused for our church.  As we mentioned in AND…the Gathered and Scattered Church, there are two redemptive sides of any church.  One is called the “sodalic” and represents the arm of the church that extends Christianity forward.  As a sodalic leader, the Apostle Paul modeled apostolic/evangelistic experiences and [...]

Continued from “Designed for Mission: New Church Facilities – Part 1 Where does a new church gather for worship and other corporate functions? We’ve all heard of multiple creative spots—schools, theaters, restaurants are the most common. Many of us have experienced using a variety of spots in the early days. Our church plant met in [...]