Contextualizing the gospel for maximum kingdom impact is one of the greatest challenges facing church planters. The latest edition of the Planter Update will help planters to understand the contextualization challenge. It also contains timely resources to help planters remain both biblically faithul and culturally relevant. To learn more click here.
Bivocational planters have unique opportunties and challenges. The Church Planting Group at NAMB is inviting all bivocational planters to participate in a survey. Responses from this survey will be used to help develop new resources for bivocational church planters. To take the survey click here.
New Resource for Planters' Wives
My Husband Wants to Be a Church Planter...So What Will That Make Me, is the newest resource now available for church planting families. This resource features planter's wives who share openly and honestly about their role, their struggles, and their victories. This is a must read for any wife who's husband has been or is being called to the ministry of church planting. For more information Click Here.
Featured Resources:
21 Church Planting Designs
To minister in the new century requires passion, courage, and ingenuity. Often we find that what we did to start churches in the twentieth century is not working in the twenty-first century. By assessing your community and allowing God's creativity to flow, you can discover just the right model for your church. Click Here
Seven Steps for Planting Churches, Partnering Church Edition
Addresses the question, "What is our role in creating such a movement?" As much as we desire to see a movement, we must be quick to admit that this is God’s business, not ours. On the other hand, we must not sit idle, doing nothing. Missional preparedness is our response. It allows us to align our resources so that we will be in a posture to respond to what God is doing. Click Here
7 Steps to Church Planting, Planter Edition
Church planters, by nature, are fast-moving, catalytic people. Taking time to properly prepare can be challenging. Yet, this was key to Jesus’ approach in preparing His disciples. He dedicated Himself for three years so that the ministry He began would continue through them. For potential church planters to be effective they, too, must take tim e to prepare. A number of questions should be addressed before launching such a missional endeavor. Click Here
Basic Training for Church Planters
This resource is designed to walk a church planting team through an intensive journey of exploring the strategic issues of a church planting process and of assisting them in developing a customized strategy for planting healthy, reproductive churches. Click Here
Basic Training II
Prepare the church planting team to take the church to the next level of growth. Click Here
Bivocational Church Planting
God has blessed men with abilities and humility as he did the apostle Paul to work bivocationally; to begin as many churches as there were cities and population centers. To do this he could not burden down the churches to care for him. Today, there are men available to do the same thing if they would consider it and humbly accept the challenge. Click Here
Build Your Own Website
The Church Planting Group at NAMB has teamed up with ChurchWebsites to provide high-quality, free websites to Southern Baptist church plants for one year. ChurchWebsites offers a technology that will allow every church plant to build a easy- to-use, multi-page, website, quickly, and with relatively little computer knowledge. After just ten minutes, any church plant will have a great looking, custom site that is tracking members and prospects. Every church plant will also receive: free e-mail accounts for staff, free domain name of their choice, free search engine submissions, and free technical support. Build your site today! Click Here
Church Planting Resource Library
Explore the Church Planting Resource Library for invaluable information and resources regarding church planting. Thousands of resources are just a few clicks away... Click Here
Compass 1
This resource consists of various Southern Baptist documents, important in educating the church planter of Southern Baptist heritage, history, and polity. Click Here
Compass II
The language companion to Compass I, Compass II consists of various Southern Baptist documents, important in educating the church planter of Southern Baptist history, heritage, and polity. Click Here
Constitution and Bylaws
The Church Planting Group of the North American Mission Board (NAMB) designed The Church Constitution Guide for your church as it establishes relationships with other Baptist bodies. Some of the issues you are dealing with relate to formally adopting various documents. The components of this booklet will provide a process for this task. Click Here
Discover Church Planting
You and I have been designed—equipped by God—for service. Discover your gifts and talents, and how to utilize them for church planting. Click Here
EDGE Resource
EDGE stands for: Equipping missional Christians for Evangelizing, Disciple-making, Gathering people, and Establishing churches. Click Here
Indigenous Church Planting
What will it take for everyone in every place to have an opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel? Accessible New Testament churches! Everyday Christians are planting churches everywhere God lead's them. Many expressions are in non-conventional settings. Click Here
Kingdom Builders
Shows how every church, like the church at Antioch, can seek, send and support church planting work. As a time-flexible tool, Kingdom Builders can be easily contextualized to meet the local sponsorship needs of each association. It's purpose is to motivate and train leaders to lead their church as a kingdom-building church. Click Here
Multi-site Church Planting
The multi-site church is a response that seeks to reach today’s generation. Click Here
Church Planter Proposal Samples
The resources on this site are provided to assist the church planter in the various aspects of planning a new church. Click Here
Partners in Church Planting (PiCP)
Provides a system for equipping and nurturing partnering/sponsoring churches to plant healthy, reproducing churches with evangelistic passion. Click Here
People Groups
The population of North America is 323 million, and growing daily. It is estimated that approximately 226 million are lost and unreached. In order to obey the command of Jesus Christ to make disciples of all ta ethne (people groups), the Church Planting Group of the North American Mission Board advocates people-focused church planting approaches for all peoples in North America. Click Here
PLACE
The PLACE process helps you discover how God has uniquely designed you, allowing you to realize your purpose for Christ. Click Here
Podcasting
What is podcasting, and how can you use it in your church? Click Here
Pursuing the Mission of God in Church Planting: The Missional Church in North America
Addresses today's opportunities and challenges facing the Church of Jesus Christ, stirring within believers a passion to pursue and live out the mission of God in church planting. Click Here
The Learning Place
An online training venue that offers church planters and those who work with them a world-class cyber-learning system, integrating video with synchronized PowerPoint-style presentations and options for downloading related files. Because you are on the North American Mission Board's Church Planting Village, you also have the nation's largest church planting resource library at your fingertips. Now you can do all your critical research, resourcing and equipping online. Everything you need to get your new church started is just a few clicks away. Click Here
Sermon Shop
Preaching is one of the most important parts of church planting. The Sermon Shop is both a celebration of the spreading of God's word through the mystery of preaching and a place for church planters and pastors to advance preaching throughout North America. While the Church Planting Group realizes that serveral internet sites exists that allow for sermons to be instantly downloaded, the goal of The Sermon Shop is to meet the demanding needs of church planters by offering ideas to stimulate sermons and sermon preparation. Click Here
Twentysomething Thought
This new generation is no longer defined by careers or relationships; they are seeking something more from God, others, and ultimately themselves. This pursuit of God is why we have begun this new journey of hearing from this new generation of young leaders, who are cutting a new edge and facing new challenges. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there are 39 million twentysomethings in the United States alone. Take a minute to discover the new challenges and opportunities for this growing generation. Click Here
Wilmington's Study Library
The Church Planting Village presents Dr. Harold Willmington’s Bible study materials for your personal study and ministry. Click Here
