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.

7 Benefits of Planting Churches

Why starting new churches is key to fulfilling the great commission

Insights From a Campus Pastor (a.k.a. Multisite Quarterback)

The multisite church playbook is all about reproducing and multiplying proven best ministry practices across multiple locations.

4 Dangers for Church Planters

Here are the particular dangers I faced as a church planter.

A Church Plant Can Be a Sending Church

Why you don’t have to wait to plant the next church

Take It to the House

You want to minimize multiplication? Return to super centralization.

Doing More Together

The days when a network could simply say it exists to train church planters are over.

How Does Church Planting Benefit the Sending Church?

Can giving away your best people be a good thing?

The 3 Phases of Church-Planting Churches

Where is your church on this progression toward being a church-planting church?