Church Planting, Developing, Leadership
We’ve done a lot of work with church planter assessment. Many organizations offer helpful assessments, and I wholeheartedly recommend that every potential planter undergo an assessment of some kind. Yet I find that another issue—equally as important—is not being...
Church Planting, Leadership, Teambuilding
The era of the lone church planter is just about over. There are probably still some of those out there, but the majority of church plants that we’re seeing now are either partnerships or clusters: a team leadership approach. The best partnerships are between those...
Church Planting, Leadership, Networking
By guest blogger Dave White Part of a week-long series In yesterday’s blog entry I gave I big picture view of how we run our networks. Today we’re going in for a close-up to see what a typical network meeting for church planting looks like in our setting. I’m sure it...
Church Planting, Leadership, Networking
By guest blogger Dave White Part of a week-long series In our ministry in the Philippines we’ve changed the way we conduct our training of church planters. We used to gather planers for a four-day seminar and give them enough material to take them through the whole...
Church Planting, Coaching
Note: part of a series started April 22nd. A community of Jesus-followers engaged in hands-on ministry to serve the world around them is a thing of beauty. Fruit will be borne from people reflecting Jesus with a spirit of humility. Sometimes it takes a long time, but...
