Church Planting

5 Innovative Ministries Shaping the Future Church

The following ministry snapshots are just a few of the examples of innovative ministries that are working well. Whether you’re a pastor, church leader or an everyday disciple looking to reach your neighborhood, we hope their stories will inspire you to innovate in your own ways.

What I Learned in the Painful Parts of Church Planting

God has worked in me more than he has through me. His love works within us like an explorer—or, in a way, a church planter—always seeking the places that have not yet met his healing love.

The Church Inside: A Look at Prison Ministry in America

This prison ministry movement equips prisoners as leaders and plants church campuses inside U.S. prisons to spread hope, discipleship, and gospel transformation.

Rethinking Church

More and more churches are embracing a new metric of success that prioritizes sending over gathering and accumulating.

Exponential Launches a Collection of Free Webinars on Church Multiplication and Race

Guests including John Perkins, Miles McPherson, Brian Loritts, Matt Chandler, Grant Skeldon, Brenda Salter McNeil and more

How Crossover Global Plants Multiplying Churches Among Unreached People Groups

This article originally appeared on the Lausanne Movement website and is republished here with permission from the Lausanne Movement.  In this interview, Bill Jones, João...

Dave Ferguson: Collaboration Is the Future—Part 1

Church multiplication will require a spirit of collaboration.

Dave Ferguson: The Reproducible Life—Part 2

The most valuable currency in our culture is trust.

The Refinery: A Replant for a Rural Industrial Community

Robinson, Illinois, is a unique town of about 8,000 people. Rural, but defined by industry, Robinson is about 40 minutes away from the next...

Starting a Church in 2020

Church planters share their advice from the front lines.

Reimagining the Church

What if existing churches became a platform for microchurches?