Pastor, what is it like being married to you?
What is it like to be married to you? Is it like being married to a celebrity? Or is it like being married to a servant?
Resources for Church Planter Care
The importance of rest in church planting
I wanted to reach people. I wanted to grow the church. I wanted to make an impact. But I didn't recognize what I was doing.
3 Ways to love your spouse well on the church planting journey
What’s at stake if we plant a successful church, but fail in our marriage?
Every good church leader has this quality
There’s one characteristic in a church leader that’s invaluable to the church but isn’t easily quantified.
The Church Planting Holiday Gift Guide
A holiday gift guide for your church planting team or the planter your church serves.
5 Ways to Care for Your Planting Team this Thanksgiving
At this point in the year, someone on your team likely needs encouragement. Here are five simple ways to care for your leadership team this Thanksgiving.
A Professor’s Legacy of Mentoring Church Planters
Steve Lee stood at the front of his Contemporary Evangelism class at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary...
Houseless Man Transformed by the Gospel
At first glance, no one would suspect Jeffery, a man without a home, was born to...
Boston Church Plants Seven Churches in Eight Years
No healthy 36-year-old expects their heart to call it quits — particularly at the genesis of...
4 Ways to Build Sisterhood Among Planting Spouses
What do church planting wives need to thrive? In Research Findings on Church Planting Spouses, when...
Writing a Church Planting Prospectus
Few things keep a church planter up at night more than finances. The dizzying array of...
10 Practical Tips for Living on Mission in Your Community
Living missionally in your community requires intentionality, a willing heart and dependency on the Holy Spirit....
One Year Saved. One Year Sober.
By Arthur Gonçalves A year ago, I met an addict with no hope. He was struggling...
Five Markers of Healthy Planting Wives
Take a good look at the image of the tree on the cover. Its symbolism is...
The intentional life of a Christian
The Christian life is not about me living for Jesus; it’s about Jesus living His life...
5 ways to generate vision and passion for church planting
My wife and I are church planters in Windsor, Ontario, Canada — directly across the river...
Church planting as spiritual fathering
“For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I...
You don’t have to be a pastor to be part of church planting
By Ryan Paterson Each of us had been involved in ministry for a number of years...
Spreading good news through an ice truck
God has no problem changing our plans. Like many churches, Redemption Road Church in Phoenix, Arizona,...
Phoenix church rediscovers the power of gratitude
“Thank you.” When you’ve had weeks of long hours and sleepless nights, these two simple words...
3 Essential leadership qualities amid hurt and turmoil
By Dhati Lewis The foreseeable future of church planting seems uncertain. We don’t know or have...
3 Myths we believe about our grief
By Dhati Lewis The past few weeks have been brutal. Our communities across the nation are...
Portland church serves as port-a-potty pitstop for homeless people
“Wash your hands” is the emphatic message we’ve all heard since the infamous COVID-19 virus forced...
Pastor, you need to process your grief too
Last week was a hard week. It began with the public release of a cell phone...
5 Questions to consider before you plant a church
By Garth Leno I have watched church plants and church planting families fold too soon. We...
Pastoring Amid Coronavirus in Seattle
By Stuart Bell Editor’s Note: This story was updated March 30, 2020, to remove certain outdated...
Maintaining an ongoing relationship with supporters
It is sometimes said, perhaps only somewhat jokingly, that church planters are after one thing: money....
4 Objections to church planting
By Clint Clifton and Shane Critser This is an excerpt from the e-book, Deploy to Multiply....
Vision 2025: A call to reach every person for Jesus Christ
NASHVILLE (BP) — Vision 2025 is not simply a slogan or rallying cry. It’s a path...
You should be thinking about 2050: North American Church Planting Capacity for the Next Generation
In mid-2018, Send Institute convened a gathering of thought leaders and heads of some of North...
Will your church be a monument — or part of a movement?
Q&A with Noah Oldham Why give to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering? God gives us the...
Why we continue to plant churches & partner with church planters
I am not a church planter. Most of you probably know that. I pastor what has...
3 practical things you need to plant a church
This is a book excerpt from Church Planting Thresholds: A Gospel-Centered Guide by Clint Clifton. Download...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/367273172 J.D. and Andreina Fasolino Toronto is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the...
7 Tough Questions for a Church Planter’s Spiritual Inventory
Church planting leaders can easily rattle off the names of guys who, sadly, didn’t make it....
The Essential Resource for Church Planting
This is a book excerpt from Church Planting Thresholds: A Gospel-Centered Guide by Clint Clifton. Download...
By Dhati and Angela Lewis To develop healthy disciple-making practices, we must recapture the art of...
Living Sent as a Church Planting Wife
Moving is scary. Moving to plant a church is even scarier. In Love Where You Live:...
The College Campus: A Plentiful Harvest
If Jesus were walking the earth today, what would He say about college campuses in North...
How to Pray for Church Planters
If we want to see God move in North America, we should pray He moves in...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/367272480 J.D. and Andreina Fasolino Toronto is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the...
3 Ways to reach university students
Do you want to reach North America and the nations with the gospel? Make disciples on...
Is There a Place for Me? Equipping Women to Thrive
By Jenni Catron “Until I saw you, I didn’t know there was a place for me...
5 Ways to Share Your Faith at Work
By Tony Dungy 1. Remember Colossians 3:23. That’s the verse that anchored me. “Whatever you do,...
Greear urges churches to ‘Fill the Tank’ on Easter
By Tess Schoonhoven NASHVILLE (BP) — J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is calling...
Who’s Annie? Fueling North American Missions
It’s all about the gospel, and at the North American Mission Board (NAMB), we are committed...
3 Ways to endure in church planting
The weather felt like someone opened the freezer of the Earth. After two weeks of laboriously...
Top 10 most read articles in 2019
How to plant your church without losing your spouse: Pay attention In the early, hectic days...
The majority of Christians I meet like the idea of church planting conceptually but would never...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/367273085 J.D. and Andreina Fasolino Toronto is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the...
3 Things Church Planters Must Do to Multiply
After becoming a Christian and planting a church with his brother at home in the Dominican...
4 Things Our Small Church Did To Multiply
By Dan Hyun Earlier this fall, we had the privilege of sending out a new church...
The Hardest Part About Being a Multiplying Church
The hardest part about being a Multiplying Church is saying goodbye—not necessarily to material comfort or...
Never Alone: How to Avoid Isolation in Church Planting
Church planting can be a lonely work. It’s amazing that a venture in which people are...
Anything that’s made to sound simple, probably isn’t. Most of us have tried to put together...
E-book: Covocational Church Planting
Over the past several years there has been an increasing interest in church planting. As a...
Kevin Ezell: If I could do it over
If you are pastoring with your whole heart and really going after it each day, it...
Stories From the Front Lines: Jeremiah Semmler
Three years ago I planted CityView Church in Phoenix. I was born and raised in Phoenix...
In April 2016, Dan Rockwell posted a piece on his leadership blog called “The Five Biggest...
Redefining Mission as an Every Day Mission
Too often we settle for the status quo. We assume this is just the way life...
The past few years have been challenging for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Many of our...
What to do When Your Wife is Burned Out: Warning Signs
In a previous blog, “How to plant your church without losing your spouse,” I offer a most basic...
How to plant your church without losing your spouse: Pay attention
If we are discussing “How to plant your church without losing your spouse,” the most significant...
A bright future rooted in a distant path
The glum cacophony of voices bemoaning the state of the church in North America presents a...
Where have all the church planters gone?
What’s the greatest hindrance to effective church planting? You might expect to get varied answers to...
So, What Comes After Church Growth?
The regrettable shortage of multiplying churches can be explained, at least in part, by the lingering...
How Evangelistically Effective is Church Planting?
In 2002, pastor and author Tim Keller published a brief article entitled “Why Plant Churches” that has since...
In our sphere of the Send Network, several faithful families have endured great, unexpected suffering and...
The story of every church plant also is the story of partnership. New churches get their...
I was never consciously called into pastoral ministry. I was never consciously called into church planting....
Should we apologize for Complementarianism?
When I chose to preach through Ephesians this year, I knew there would come a time...
HEAR-U: Training teams to ask questions that invite dialogue
When we study the evangelistic methodology of Jesus, we discover that asking great questions was one...
3 things I wish every young church planter would know
I have been involved with the Church Planting Department at Bethlehem Baptist Church for the past...
Learning to cherish older men in church planting
As church planters, pastors, and ministry leaders, we must be vigilant in our pursuit of spiritual...
How to find your personal ‘sweet spot’
I played baseball in high school and college back in the wooden bat era. After that,...
YouTube videos are the best, right? Take any subject — installing roof racks on a mini-van,...
Multiplying your time as a planter: Prioritizing tasks
You cannot do everything you want to do. I forget this fact more than I would...
Three years in … what am I learning
We just celebrated our third birthday as a church! At the beginning of this call on...
Why Is the Send Network Orientation Important?
Jason Griffin, church planter in Phoenix, Ariz., answers why church planters should attend the Send Network...
https://vimeo.com/236827201 The GC (Gospel Conversations) Challenge is an opportunity to join together as churches, associations and...