 The Church Planter’s Retreat is designed as a 3-day crash course covering (almost) everything you need to know to plant a church. Originally designed by the Church Multiplication Training Center, a coalition of top church planting experts from the Missionary Church, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Assemblies of God, the Christian Reformed Church, the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference and several other denominations, the Church Planter’s Retreat encompasses the following modules: - The Vision for the Church Plant
- The Importance of Prayer
- The Core Values
- The Mission Statement
- The Strategic Plan
- Ministry Development
- Effective Evangelism
- Working in Teams
- Conflict Resolution
- The Care of the Planter’s Family
- The Most Common Reasons Church Plants Fail
- Church Planting Models
Below you can download both the leader and participant manuals so that you can use these resources in your own congregation. As an added bonus, you can also download, Take the Pulse of Your Church, a tool for measuring your congregation’s health. Description
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 Let’s Plant Healthy Churches is a one day workshop designed to help potential church planters and established church leaders explore what it takes to plant a healthy congregation and to discern whether they are ready for the task. Based on a collection of essays authored by some of the world’s top missiologists, Let’s Plant Healthy Churches will introduce you the basics of church planting in the following modules:
- Biblical and Strategic Foundations for Church Planting
- Church Planter Profile
- Steps for Planting a Church
- Church Planting Models
Important: When you are ready to launch your new congregation, we would recommend that you take advantage of the 3-day Church Planter’s Retreat to obtain the full box of tools. Below you can download both the leader and participant manuals so that once you have been through the workshop yourself, you can bring it back to your own congregation. As an added bonus, you can also download, Take the Pulse of Your Church, a tool for measuring your congregation’s health. Description
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A Tool to Diagnose the Health of Your Church  This instrument will enable you to determine the level of health in your congregation and evaluate key areas of ministry. It serves as a tool for self-evaluation and planning for the local church, addressing both quantitative and qualitative factors.
Beyond measuring vital information on the state of health of a congregation, Take the Pulse of Your Church creates a dialogue and deep reflection among lay leaders, members and pastors of local churches helping them identify the elements that they determine to be the most important to the development and the health of a congregation. In that sense, also it serves to correctly stir up a "holy discontent" in the members and leadership around what they dream for Christ's church.
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 A workshop for established churches who want to grow
Holistic Church Growth has been received with enthusiasm in a variety of countries including: Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Peru, Venezuela as well as in a number of cities in the United States. This one-day seminar helps Christian leaders focus their congregations on their role as instruments in God's mission. The presentation explains the importance of vision being defined in an organizational framework of open systems and offers a variety of missional models designed to help your congregation establish a greater impact in its community. It includes four Sessions: 1. Vision, Mission, Passion 2. The Missionary Church 3. Systems of Transformation 4. Becoming a Church of Impact Description
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