Church PLANT Manual

I ntroduction Rev. Ted Smith

The Church PLANT Manual was designed to help your church plant team understand the principles of church planting, navigate the journey of turning those principles into actionable goals during coaching sessions of an Evangel School, and ultimately to develop your team’s strategic plan for the next twelve months of your church. The guidebook and the Evangel School itself are intended for those who are planting a new church, those who are preparing to re-plant (restart, revitalize, or relaunch) an existing church, those who are seeking a process for transitioning into the next generation of pastoral leadership, and those seeking to catalyze a church planting movement. Evangel is a principle-based strategy which can be applied to multiply contexts of planting, re-planting, seasons of transition, and other applications. This has been proven through the years as we have coached teams to develop a strategy for their unique context. Therefore, it is important to note that the terms “plant” and “planting” should always be understood as inclusive terms related to the PLANT principles of Evangel.

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