Sending Churches: Finding your next church planter
Developing leaders is rarely easy (or fast). It takes time — sometimes years — to discover...
Resources for Sending Church
A Professor’s Legacy of Mentoring Church Planters
Steve Lee stood at the front of his Contemporary Evangelism class at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary...
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...
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 best way to catch the vision for ministry in the places that need it most...
Starting a planter care team, Part 3
When Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16, 1969, the many...
Starting a planter care team, Part 2
It’s been said that planting a church is not the most dangerous job in the world,...
Starting a planter care team, Part 1
What is a CPCT? Our Church Planter Care Team (CPCT) is a group of members who,...
In the fall of 2013, I came to a 3-year-old church plant in Southern Indiana as...
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...
NAMB strongly recommends that Sending Churches and church plants formally document their relationship in a clear,...
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...
Sending Churches take responsibility for a church plant until it is self-sustaining, self-governing and self-propagating. This...