Category: Launch Team

  • Church Plant Freebie Friday – Signup Genius

    Signup Genius is a great FREE tool for organizing your church plant prayer team and/or volunteers around events, projects, etc. Here are a couple of ways you could use it: Church Plant Outreach Events Your launch team is participating in a local community event and you need people to take 1-hour shifts during a 6-hour […]

  • Throw a Church Plant Launch Celebration!

      The Launch of weekly services at your church plant is a celebration in itself, but a lot of people have worked hard to make it a reality. What are you doing to celebrate the church plant launch and honor all that hard work your team put in? Throw an After-Party Plan in advance to […]

  • Church Plant Launch Team – Should You Include Believers?

    I have read a lot of dialogue over the last several years about the inclusion of believers on a church plant Launch Team. Most agree that the Launch Team shouldn’t be only believers, though that is all too often what happens. A few promote not allowing any already-believers on the Launch Team for fear of […]

  • Church Planting – What Neil Cole Would Have Done Differently

    Neil Cole is a thought leader and practitioner in the organic/missional/house church movement (what are we calling it this month?). In his post Lessons Learned in the Fields, he recaps what he would do differently if he were planting again today. It’s an adaption of his own book, Organic Church. Here are the nuggets I […]

  • Relational Mapping for your Launch Team

    I was at the Exponential Conference last week and got to hear from many great speaker and practitioners. A big ‘aha’ moment for me was listening to Rob Wegner from Granger Community Church. He was relating to us the journey that Granger is taking toward nurturing the missional impulse in their small groups. They believe […]