Church PLANT Manual

Introduction • 7

Church Planting Overview 4

How to PLANT a Church

Prepare: Be the Church Principle: A church is birthed from an existing church. • Pray. • Form a church plant team. • Select a target area and population. • Conduct demographic and cultural studies. Launch: Expand the Church Principle: Begin inviting people to join the community. • Recruit and train additional volunteers. • Conduct evangelistic events.

EVANGELIZE

Assemble: Establish the Church Principle: Bring the church to a place where it can be announced in the community. • Form cell groups, Bible studies, etc. • Follow up with new believers. • Identify and train emerging leaders. • Promote the new church to the neighborhood. Nurture: Mature the Church Principle: Leaders develop and practice their developing gifts under the oversight of pastoral leadership. • Develop individual and group discipleship. • Identify and use spiritual gifts and fill key roles in the church. Transition: Multiply the Church Principle: Raise up leaders to take over the church plant or send teams to plant daughter churches. • Develop a multiplication strategy. • Partner with other urban churches for fellowship, support, and mission.

EQUIP

EMPOWER

4 Adapted from a seminar by Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis in Ripe for Harvest, pp. 54-60.