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Ways to increase financial capacity for church planting Notes from Tasmanian Church Planting Conference elective, Joe Towns, 19 October 2016 on “Ways to increase financial capacity for church planting”: Church Planting involves money. It involves money before hand, during, and for some time after. This elective explores how we can get the church finances geared up …
1. Why are You Planting this Church? 2. What are You Reacting Against? 3. How Will You Make Disciples? 4. Who is Pastoring You? 5. Who am I?
Why plant new churches? One out of every two Louisiana residents surveyed indicated no “personal relationship” with Jesus Christ. That means over 2,244,000 people without Christ. Most new churches start with the sole purpose of reaching people without Christ. New churches open up new fronts on the spiritual & cultural needs in every community. “The single …
“How do you spot a church planter?” “What does a church planter look like?” Many believe the number one reason why church plants fail is the selection of the wrong planter. Therefore, wrestling with this question of what a church planter looks like is extremely important for those leading a church planting movement. Unfortunately, this …
You can only mention so much in your announcements, and only so many things can fit in a bulletin each week. But with an online calendar, you can list as much as you’d like. The key is keeping the calendar up-to-date. Weekly calendaring meetings might be necessary at first, but once a routine is established, …
In the late 1980s a new cultural trend took hold that has continued until today … as a culture we started having babies before we were married. Today, almost half of all babies are born to unmarried mothers, and the median first birth happens around one year earlier in a woman’s life than her median age …
The inclusion of this item would mean that your church would need to be active on social media. These links do no good if your social media channels are inactive or defunct. I will be writing in the future about social media strategies for churches. But at the very least, a church should be present …
This may seem like an obvious inclusion. But if it were obvious, I wouldn’t visit so many church websites that lacked a contact page or contact information. An important follow-up to this item is having someone responsible for responding to inquiries. Every contact to a church should receive a response within 24 hours, if not …
Most of the viewers on your church website will be visitors to your church, not members. In fact, a church’s website should be more geared to visitors than to the members. Post names and titles of your staff so when a visitor arrives, they at least have a frame of reference for whom they will …