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.

Why You Don’t Need to ‘Start’ Another Church

"The divine call to 'come and see' invites us to engage wholeheartedly in everything God intends."

6 Marks of a Missional Church

"Rather than seeing your church as a social club for its own good, what if your church embraced its missionary identity?"

Finding Restoration After Your Ministry Dreams Fall Apart

"I didn’t know what was in store for me when I let go of the dream of being the pastor at that big, beautiful church."

Why Your Church Must Diversify—or Die

"Churches maintaining all-white uniformity are vying for ever-larger pieces of a shrinking pie."

Church Human Resources: 3 Important Considerations

“Setting up and implementing a strategic HR plan for your new church isn’t an unspiritual aspect or an afterthought.”

4 Key Practices to Launch and Sustain a Vibrant Church

"Churches turn inward if they don’t intentionally and aggressively press outward to the world that God loves.”

Plant What God Would Plant, Go Where God Would Go

“If we begin to think outside of the box, the city may truly rejoice that we showed up.”

How to Shape and Maintain a Kingdom Vision

“If we aren’t intentional in our leadership, we will drift. We will look up one day and find that we that lack vision.”