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Church Planting/New Church Development/
Multi-Site Church

Items listed include online resources and publications from New Life Ministries as well as information from other web sites.  New Life Ministries does not necessarily endorse all the content at any site we may link to from here. Such links are provided because we believe they offer valuable resources for your use.

Also see the Church Growth and Vitality listing.

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What's

Founding Pastor - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr. - added Mar 12 2008
Going Strong: Church Planting Is Alive and Well in the US
- Leadership Network - added Jan 02 2008
Imagine 2007
- Church Planting Canada conference November 14-16, 2007, Ottawa
7NOW: Seven Nights of Worship each week!
- Oasis Church in Florida - added Oct 15 2007
Glocal Church Ministry - Christianity Today/Mark Galli interviews Bob Roberts - added Sept 06 2007
Multi-Site Resources
- Leadership Network - added May 25 2007
2007 Survey of 1,000 Multi-Site Churches - Leadership Network/Stephen Shields - added May 25 2007
Heart Language: Hip Hop Congregation One Example of Contextual Church Planting
- Leadership Network/Sherri Brown - added May 25 2007

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NLM Online Resources

Bibliography on Church Planting
Links on Church Planting
Links to Geo-Demographic Resources

A New Humanity: Anabaptist Ministry Among Many Peoples - Anabaptist Evangelism Council 2000 Presentations

bulletForeword Marilyn Miller
bullet Old Testament Foundations -  Stephen B. Reid
bullet New Testament Vision of a New Humanity - J. Nelson Kraybill
bulletThe Diversity Project - Rocky Kidd and Allan Howe
bulletA Gospel Invitation in a World of Many Peoples - Art McPhee
bullet Case Studies
bulletChurch Planting in Fresno, California - James Wenger
bulletA New Humanity . . . Among Native Americans - Terry Widrick
bulletReba Place Church of Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois - Sally Schreiner and Karl McKinney
bulletFirst Church of the Brethren, Harrisburg, Pa. - Pastors Marisel Olivencia and Irvin Heishman
bullet Listening Committee Perspective - Dick Benner, Mary Mae Schwartzentruber, and Dale R. Stoffer
bullet Consensus and Focus - moderated by Richard J. "Jack" Suderman

Church gives birth to "150-pound baby" - Ashland Times-Gazette/Jarred Opatz
Church Planting: The Spirit at Work through Our Systems - Anabaptist Evangelism Council 2001 Presentations

bullet Foreword - Ronald W. Waters
bulletPlenary Presentations - Stuart Murray
bulletChurch Planting Strategies and Anabaptist Values
bulletChurch Planting in a Postmodern Context
bullet The Ten Most Important Things I’ve Learned about Church Planting
bulletThe 2000 Anabaptist Church Planting Survey
bullet Survey Results - Angela Zizak
bullet Reflections and Practical Implications - Steve Clapp
bullet Reports from the Listening Committee - Tara L. Hornbacker, Walter Sawatsky, Dale R. Stoffer
bullet What We’ve Learned/Are Learning about Church Planting - Council Participants
bullet Record of the Proceedings

Contrasting Church Renewal and Church Planting, Part 2 - Church Planting - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Founding Pastor - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Gotta Serve Who? - Glenn White
Make Your Web Site Come Alive! - Glenn White 
Starting a Church Plant - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Take Your Church Plant to the Web! - Glenn White
Viral Marketing, Church Planting, and "I Love You Too" - Article/Dave Travis
What's the Use? - Glenn White

NLM Publications & Videos

A New Humanity: Anabaptist Ministry Among Many Peoples - Anabaptist Evangelism Council 2000 Presentations
Church Planting: Laying Foundations - Stuart Murray
Church Planting: The Spirit at Work through Our Systems - Anabaptist Evangelist Council 2001 Presentations

Other Internet Links

Christian Community
ChurchConstruction.com
Church Planting Articles - Ralph F. Wilson
CoachNet®

ElmerTowns.com - many of his books available online
Multi-Site Churches

The Phone's for You
Renewing Pastor and People - Ashland Theological Seminary

Servant Leadership for Church Renewal

Shalom Foundation
- source for Together newspaper & outreach postcards

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Multi-Site Churches - Links to Congregations

7NOW: Seven Nights of Worship each week! - Oasis Church in Florida
2007 Survey of 1,000 Multi-Site Churches - Leadership Network/Stephen Shields
Big Churches Use Technology to Branch Out - NPR
Does the Vision Really Come First? - next-wave.org/Dave Ferguson
Doing Church at the Metro Stops - Leadership/Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, and Warren Bird
Extending Your Church to More Than One Place - Leadership Network/Warren Bird (pdf)
God™: It Worked for Burgers; Now Churches Try Franchising - Chicago Tribune
Mega-Church Planting - Fellowship Church goes to Miami - Miami Herald/Alexandra Alter
Multiple Site/Multiple Campus Report - Leadership Network/Dave Travis (pdf)
Multi-Site: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You - Leadership Network/interview with Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, and Warren Bird
Multi-Site Special Report - Leadership Network/Dave Travis (pdf)
Multi-Site Church - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Dave Ferguson
Multi-Site Churches: A New Twist on Church Planting and Church Growth - CoachNet/Bob Logan & Tara Miller
Multi-Site Church Plants - ChurchPlantingVillage.net - links to several planning resources
Multi-Site Resources - Leadership Network
NewThing Network - multi-site network of Community Christian Church, Naperville, IL
Should Your Church Consider a Multi-Site Strategy? - Pastors.com/Geoff Surratt
Should Your Church Go Multi-Site? (a self-diagnostic tool) - Leadership Network
Starting a Video Venue - North Coast Church

Survey of 1000 Multi-Site Churches - Leadership Network
The Emerging Multi-Site Movement - Leadership Network Explorer/Warren Bird
The Reproducing Church - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Dave Ferguson
Video Cafes - VideoCafes.org
Who's Using Multi-Site? - multi-site.org

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Baby Church or Small Church - Leadership Network/Russ Bredholt, Jr
Basics of Natural Church Plant Development - Phil Alessi
Be Fruitful and Multiply - Outreach/Tim Boyle
"Celebrate Church Planting!" Conference 2002 - sponsored by the Northeast Church Planters Network in October 2002

Church Facilities Facts Sheets - Baptist General Convention of Texas
Church in a Box - Your Church (January/February 2000)/Jennifer Schuchmann 
Church Multiplication Centers: Best Practices from Churches that Do High-Yield Church Planting - Leadership Network/Andy Williams
Church Planting Emphasis Issue - good idea! (Autumn 2000)
Church Planting Is More Than Pioneering - Zondervan Church Source/Gailyn VanRheenen
Church Planting in the Common Culture article and outline - Dave Harvey
A Church Planting MachineStrategies for Today’s Leader (3rd Quarter 2001)/Rick Ives
Church Planting Movements
- International Mission Board (SBC)/David Garrison
Church Planting SKAGS (Skills, Abilities, Gifts) - 20 questions to begin assessing whether should consider church planting (a PDF file)
Church Planting Typology Report - Leadership Network/Dave Travis
ChurchPlantingVillage.net - North American Mission Board (SBC) site with extensive online resources
Church Planting: What's Different 20 Years Later? - Next-Wave (Feb 2001)/Todd Hunter
Community Needs Assessment Process - North American Mission Board (SBC)
Create a Church in Thirty Days? - Mindstorm IdeaLetter (Sept 2003) - C Michael Johnson
Dashboard of the Great Commission Church
- an illustrated handout that helps
you teach your congregation about the twelve keys to an effective church (cf. Kennon Callahan's book) with a blank meter for each of the twelve keys (a PDF file)
Don’t Forget the SpousesChurch Champions Update (Mar 15 2002)/Linda Stanley
Every Church Can Start a Church . . . Through Prayer - National Pastors' Prayer Network/Phil Miglioratti
Getting a Church Started - Elmer Towns (complete book online)
Glocal Church Ministry - Christianity Today/Mark Galli interviews Bob Roberts
Going Strong: Church Planting Is Alive and Well in the US - Leadership Network
Growing Your Church by the Numbers: Using Demographic Research Data to Improve Church Planting Success - Tom Cheyney
Heart Language: Hip Hop Congregation One Example of Contextual Church Planting - Leadership Network/Sherri Brown

How to Kill Your Church Plant - episcopalchurch.org
Imagine 2007 - Church Planting Canada conference November 14-16, 2007, Ottawa
Information Needed for Church Planting - Mission Research Group
Jethro Teams - Vision Planners LLC
New Church Planting Models - episcopalchurch.org

New Church Planting Workbook and Other Church Planting Resources - Easum, Bandy, and Associates
The Phone's for You - developed by Norman Whan
Planting and Growing Healthy Churches Cross-Culturally - Outreach Encourager/Philip M. Bickel
Planting Mission-Shaped Churches Today - Martin Robinson
Speaking Prophetically, Acting ApostolicallyHouse2House (Issue 4)/Wolfgang Simson 
Starting Churches That Start with People Who Are Just Starting with Jesus - next-wave (May 2003)/Neil Tibbott
Starting Church-Starting Churches - ShineOnline/Carol Davis
Starting Strong New Churches
- Nazarene New Churches/Bill M. Sullivan
TellStart/Church Plant Strategies, Inc. - developed by Phil Spry
Three Challenges for Every New Church - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Dave Ferguson
Twelve Steps to Parenting a Daughter Church - YourJourney.org/Dan Maxton (PDF)
What Is Not a Church?DAWN Report (Mar 2003)
Why New Churches Close
- a study of Christian Reformed churches (a PDF file)


This page last updated April 18, 2008

 

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