Ways to reach your community: Intro
Reaching your community with the gospel of Jesus Christ requires what I call “church-community intersections.” In...
Resources for Church Planting
How to Deal with Being Far From Family
“Come over to Macedonia to help us.” Macedonia? Let me translate that for you: “Far from...
Restoration through connection
In 2013, God led my family and I from Biloxi, Mississippi, to Victoria, British Columbia, to...
Restoration through wholeness in Christ
Restoration is a beautiful thing — whether it be a house or a heart. If you...
Missionary flow and church planting
In the North American, post-Christian context in which we now live, we can’t plant churches by...
Who’s the smartest guy in the room?
As trainers, the temptation is for us to want to be the wisest, the most experienced,...
Disciple-making environments and church planting
Like many aspects of the Christian life — kingdom, mission, evangelism, even the gospel — we...
Kingdom thinking and church planting
As stated in the last post, our Kingdom Thinking (Christology) should determine our Missional Engagement, (missiology)...
We help equip churches to be on mission in their own communities and across the continent....
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...
What to do when your wife is burned out: Ongoing care
I vividly remember sitting with her as she wept, during a retreat I was leading. She...
When The Gathering began, we were a ragtag bag of people who gathered on Saturday nights...
In our sphere of the Send Network, several faithful families have endured great, unexpected suffering and...
Eight non-negotiables for church planters, Pt. 4
7. Structure for growth and impact beyond where you are Probably one of the more evident...
Eight non-negotiables for church planters, Pt. 3
4. Embed shared authority into your DNA Because I believe plurality in church leadership is a...
Eight non-negotiables for church planters, Pt. 2
1. Prioritize preaching You’ll soon discover there are many things you can do when the church gathers together....
Eight non-negotiables for church planters, Pt. 1
We’re just shy of 14 years old as a church. It seems like just yesterday there...
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...
5 reasons church planters should unpack forgiveness
Unpack forgiveness first, church planters. Before you pick out a sound board, before you buy a...
Replanters’ Wives roundtable: Expectations
Are you the wife of a replanter or revitalizer? Join the Replanters’ Wives Facebook group for...
The ‘Physician’ follow-up question pathway
How 6 minutes, 4 questions, and deep answers opened our hearts for the people in the...
Debunking common church planting objections: We’re too small
There’s one more objection to becoming a Sending Church that we will tackle today. The first...
Debunking Common Church Planting Objections: We’ll Lose Our Best Leaders
In the last post, we considered one of the most common objections to church planting —...
Debunking common church planting objections: It costs too much
When you decide, as the pastor, to lead your church for the first time to be...
Why is it important for church planters to gather together?
Muche Ukegbu, church planter in South Florida, speaks to the importance of gathering together with other...
How does leadership play a role in planting a church?
Rayden Hollis, a church planter in St. Louis, speaks to the importance of inspirational leadership in...
It was somewhat surreal, and a little surprising. Not that I had expected something really different,...
How to find your personal ‘sweet spot’
I played baseball in high school and college back in the wooden bat era. After that,...
As a pastor in a young, urban city, I spend multiple hours each week shepherding individuals...
YouTube videos are the best, right? Take any subject — installing roof racks on a mini-van,...
What to do when your wife is burned out: Understanding the situation
As a church-planting family, you’re on the adventure of a lifetime: moving to a new city,...
Coaching and the kingdom of God
We all have dreams. We dream of the perfect house, perfect car, perfect health, perfect family,...
I had an “aha” moment as I stood in a prayer circle in May 2018 at...
Beacons of justice and peace: Race
When I was younger, I thought the people writing on topics were “experts” who had it...
Beacons of justice and peace: Gender
We live in a confusing age. It is an age that tells little boys who do...
Over the past few years, Aaron Bell and I have enjoyed the practical benefits of being...
Sending church mistakes: Finances
Most church planters consider “money” a four letter word! And, in a cents, it is! But...
Sending church mistakes: Mission teams
Mistakes happen when you are a sending church. Part of our growth as a sending church...
Must someone be called to plant a church?
Noah Oldham, Send City Missionary for St. Louis, provides counsel on whether you must be called...
Multiplying when you’re not mega: Leadership pipeline
Valley Life Church has a robust leadership pipeline, but we didn’t mean to. We stumbled into...
Multiplying when you’re not mega: Collaborating with others
There is an old African proverb that many of you have probably heard: “If you want...
Multiplying when you’re not mega: Intentional strategy
So you’re about to plant a church, or you’ve already planted one some time ago, and...
5 ways to engage other churches in planting
Kingdom work as a whole — and certainly church planting — is not meant to be...
David Brainerd: 5 principles for recruiting churches into planting
David Brainerd gave his life to share the gospel with Native Americans in New York, New...
5 things a potential partner wants to hear from a planter
By Danny Wood In the past 15 years, our church has been the Sending Church for...
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 do-or-die actions I’d encourage church planters to embrace
It had been about a year since our church launched a young church planter to Central...
Five ways church planting will change your life
While our church is now more than 10 years old, I still call myself a church...
7 ways church planting will bless your church
I have become more convinced each year that the Great Commission is a call to plant...
5 Priorities for Managing Time
“The quality of your leadership will be measured in part by how well you manage your...
Student first, trainer second: 3 things you can do
Every trainer should be a student first and a trainer second. When I begin a training,...
Three years in … what am I learning
We just celebrated our third birthday as a church! At the beginning of this call on...
Training for Apostolic Church Planters
https://media.rawvoice.com/send_network_podcast/namb.s3.amazonaws.com/podcasts/send_network/013_ongoing-training-for-trainers.mp3 J. D. Payne serves as the pastor for church multiplication with The Church at Brook...
https://vimeo.com/208389367 NAMB Vice-President Kim Robinson has a conversation with Jack Alexander, chairman of The Reimagine Group...
The Send Conference is a two-day gathering of local churches that want to see a movement...
Ordinary People — Cleveland, Ohio
https://vimeo.com/247847348 Gabby, Katie and Allison are ordinary, everyday believers, but they are stepping out in faith...
Because of your prayers and faithful giving to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, North American missionary...
The best way to catch the vision for ministry in the places that need it most...
Some practical tips and how-to’s for promoting the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in your church. This...
Chicago: Portrait of a Neighborhood
When most people in Chicago look at Garfield Park, they see drugs, crime and violence. When...
There places on earth that are like no place on earth–places that you and your church...
Collegiate church planting: Reaching the next generation
College students are the next generation. They are the rising influencers, and they are shaping culture.
We are the North American Mission Board. We connect you and your church to your next...
Collegiate Ministry Essence Video 2017
https://vimeo.com/209630096 “I am always on mission, because it is who I am.” This is the heart...