Church PLANT Manual

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actually planting churches among the urban poor, with a focus on the calling, character, and competencies of the church planter, that God-called, Spirit-filled individual who has been led to plant outposts of the Kingdom for Christ among the city’s poorest and most vulnerable populations. Planting Churches a mong the Cit y ’ s Poor: An Anthology of Urban Church Planting Resources, Volume Two: Resources and Tools for Coaches and Teams Volume Two provides a toolkit, an asset depot containing various materials, tools, and helps to outfit the church plant coach or mentor to lead teams. Additionally, this volume contains numerous specific aids that the planter and his/her team will find invaluable as they engage in their church planting effort. In this collection you will find a host of articles addressing the specific nature of coaching and mentoring church plant leaders and their teams, and seeks to give a broad, compelling outline of the kinds of issues, concerns, and commitments necessary for mentors to understand and do as they coach teams that plant effective churches. It also includes a collection of miscellaneous articles, graphs, documents, and information relevant to planting a church, including information about financial, state relations, leadership development, forming associations, and equipping for reproduction in church planting movements. In this section you will find abundant particular resources all meant to be helpful for planters, coaches, and associations who desire to plant healthy churches among the poor, both cross-culturally and intra-culturally. These many helps will readily inform your thinking about the nature of planting the individual congregation, forming the structures of a healthy church planting movement, empowering leadership for reproduction, and advancing the Kingdom among the poor in the city.