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Sending Churches: Finding your next church planter

Developing leaders is rarely easy (or fast). It takes time — sometimes years — to discover …

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A Professor’s Legacy of Mentoring Church Planters

Steve Lee stood at the front of his Contemporary Evangelism class at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary …

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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 …

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7 ways church planting will bless your church

I have become more convinced each year that the Great Commission is a call to plant …

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Catch the Vision

The best way to catch the vision for ministry in the places that need it most …

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Starting a planter care team, Part 3

When Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16, 1969, the many …

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Starting a planter care team, Part 2

It’s been said that planting a church is not the most dangerous job in the world, …

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Starting a planter care team, Part 1

What is a CPCT? Our Church Planter Care Team (CPCT) is a group of members who, …

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Did I kill my sending church?

In the fall of 2013, I came to a 3-year-old church plant in Southern Indiana as …

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Church Planting Agreement

NAMB strongly recommends that Sending Churches and church plants formally document their relationship in a clear, …

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Administrative and Legal Considerations for Sending Churches and Church Plants

Sending Churches must often provide a church plant with practical guidance on various administrative and legal …

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Five things every church planter should do for its Sending Church

Vance Pittman talks about what it really means to partner well with a church planter.

Partnering well: Sending Church, pray for your planter

Without a doubt, planting a church without prayer is like building a house on bare ground …

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6 Ways to Help a Plant Financially

6 Steps to Develop Planters

5 Places to Find Planters

PLANT a Sending Culture

Sending Church Best Practices

Sending Church Expectations

Sending Churches take responsibility for a church plant until it is self-sustaining, self-governing and self-propagating. This …

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9 Reasons to be a Sending Church

10 Ways to Care for a Planter

10 Sending Church Basics

Resources for Sending Church

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