Send Network unveils new values, leadership team, Spanish website
LEER EN ESPAÑOL ALPHARETTA, Ga. — At a national meeting of more than 275 field staff...
Resources for Pastor/Church Leadership
Send Network’s Spanish-language residencies dive deep into the needs of Hispanic communities
Leer en Español PUERTO RICO—Mormon country. Crime-ridden neighborhoods blocks from the White House. The Great Plains...
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.
Sending Churches: Finding your next church planter
Developing leaders is rarely easy (or fast). It takes time — sometimes years — to discover...
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.
Church Planting vs. Pastoring: What’s the Difference?
There comes a time in the life of every new church when you shift from church planter to church pastor.
Replant Cohort Helps to Revitalize Pastors and Churches
Alpharetta, Ga. — For three years, the North American Mission Board’s Mark Clifton and Brian Croft...
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....
The intentional life of a Christian
The Christian life is not about me living for Jesus; it’s about Jesus living His life...
Facing stress as a pastor and helping others do the same
By Tony Rose In proper amounts, stress is necessary for life. Undue stress, however, can undo...
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...
10 ways to make the most of Easter this year
Easter is arguably the most celebrated day of the year for Christians. Churches are usually packed...
Sunday Gatherings Are Gone – Now What?
By Dhati Lewis If you’re a church leader right now, I’m guessing you were never given...
The church planter’s manual for engaging your neighbor
By Matt Hess They found a lot of polite ways to say “no” to us over...
Loving our community in dark times
By Dale Huntington This is a historical time for all of us. The last time our...
Mark Clifton’s Coronavirus thoughts for small to mid-size churches
By Mark Clifton These are hard, unpredictable times. Many of us have been caught off guard...
What should we do for our home worship gatherings?
The new coronavirus has forced us all into a new normal. Many of us find ourselves...
7 Things to consider for your home worship gatherings
There is nothing that can stop the Church. In a season where large gatherings are limited,...
Responding in love during the coronavirus pandemic
By Min Lee I’m accustomed to making changes slowly. I’m Korean American, and I helped replant...
6 Tips on livestreaming your Sunday service
In a season where large group gatherings are scarce, God is kind to give us a...
Maintaining an ongoing relationship with supporters
It is sometimes said, perhaps only somewhat jokingly, that church planters are after one thing: money....
E-book: Covocational Church Planting
Over the past several years there has been an increasing interest in church planting. As a...
Ways to reach your community: Intro
Reaching your community with the gospel of Jesus Christ requires what I call “church-community intersections.” In...
How to Deal with Being Far From Family
“Come over to Macedonia to help us.” Macedonia? Let me translate that for you: “Far from...
Missionary flow and church planting
In the North American, post-Christian context in which we now live, we can’t plant churches by...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It was somewhat surreal, and a little surprising. Not that I had expected something really different,...
7 ways church planting will bless your church
I have become more convinced each year that the Great Commission is a call to plant...
The Send Conference is a two-day gathering of local churches that want to see a movement...
Multiplication Overview – Kevin Ezell
The local church is the plan for the mission of God to move forward with power....
https://vimeo.com/195315011 Disciple-making is the sum total of what Christ came to do. Here, John O. introduces...
What are five ways to maintain a church planting culture?
Vance Pitman, Pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas, Nev., talks about five ways to produce...
https://vimeo.com/208389367 NAMB Vice-President Kim Robinson has a conversation with Jack Alexander, chairman of The Reimagine Group...
Ordinary People — Cleveland, Ohio
https://vimeo.com/247847348 Gabby, Katie and Allison are ordinary, everyday believers, but they are stepping out in faith...
When Rich Perez was growing up in his New York City neighborhood, he always heard that...
Because of your prayers and faithful giving to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, North American missionary...
On Sunday mornings, the streets of Montreal are quiet and deserted. Some people dream of a...
Some practical tips and how-to’s for promoting the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in your church. This...
There places on earth that are like no place on earth–places that you and your church...
https://vimeo.com/247517692 Kempton Turner met Jesus in the most unexpected way in the most unexpected place. ,...
We are the North American Mission Board. We connect you and your church to your next...
At Home in Minneapolis, At Home in Africa
https://vimeo.com/247816656 Khamis is a Christian from South Sudan. He lost everything in Sudan’s civil war. Now...
En la Junta de misiones norteamericanas tenemos como razón de ser el movilizar a los Bautistas...
https://vimeo.com/236827201 The GC (Gospel Conversations) Challenge is an opportunity to join together as churches, associations and...
The best way to catch the vision for ministry in the places that need it most...
Great coaching brings vision one step closer to reality. You may not have a coach right...
Knowing your role: Self awareness
Reggie McNeil says, “The single most important piece of information a leader possesses is self-awareness.”[1] Self-Awareness could...
Shaping your senior pastor’s heart toward planting, Pt. 3
I remember it like it was yesterday. After one of “those” church business meetings, someone close...
Shaping your senior pastor’s heart toward planting, Pt. 2
I was asked to write a post titled “Shaping your senior pastor’s heart toward planting.” I...
Shaping your senior pastor’s heart toward planting: Pt. 1
So, you’re currently reading through the book of Acts, or have recently read a book or...
Preaching is one of those those sacred tasks entrusted to the pastor that, unless you are...
The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and we...
Every organization, including the church, is built upon underlying paradigms or assumptions. This is not the...
Measurement is fabulous. Unless you’re busy measuring what’s easy to measure, as opposed to what’s important....
Movement is a mindset. Perhaps the very first thing that should be said in regard to...
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. ~ Max De Pree In the...
The main business of many mission committees is to determine how to spend the mission budget,...