Enough theory. Time to execute.
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Shutting Down Church Plants
It is always a sad day when you have to go about shutting down a church plant. While there are some paperwork and technical details involved, the primary role and responsibility of the leadership during this time is to care for the people in the congregation. As I’ve had to learn through this process, here…
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Church Plant Dissolution Clause
If you want to set up your new church for official IRS 501c3 nonprofit recognition, know they’ll be looking for your church plant dissolution clause. What’s the Problem? Anything donated to a church is to be used for its nonprofit purposes. The IRS gets pretty picky about donations being ‘laundered’ through a nonprofit that is…
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Community Networking for Your Church Plant
As a church planter, you are a missionary to your community. And part of the work of every missionary is understanding the culture they serve. Community networking is one of the best ways to experience the culture. Demographic reports and community history websites are one of the best places to start, especially if you haven’t…
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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…
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Don’t Let Your Buddy Do Your Church Plant Website
Publishing your church plant website has become an important part of the planting process here in the States. Everyone is going to check out who you are and what you’re about through your website, and usually very early in their relationship with you. Having a website establishes you in the community, helps you communicate, and…
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Church Plant Finances
Your church plant needs to have some money-handling procedures in place to create an environment of trust and protect your staff & volunteers from accusation. Your church plant is seeing contributions come in from outside supporters and local givers. Different people are handling the checks (and sometimes cash) that are donated. Someone’s got to balance…
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Church Plant Financial Audit
What’s the Problem? You want to handle your church plant finances with utmost integrity. But sometimes expediency or a situation that may feel like ‘necessity’ lures planters into sloppy financial practices. Do you want to be able to assure supporters & local givers that their investment in the Kingdom is being put to best use?…
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Use a Password Manager
With the advent of Web 2.0 and all of our apps being in the Cloud, I’m sure your online accounts have multiplied exponentially like mine. Now mine’s an extreme case, perhaps, because I work with so many planters all the time. But I just crossed the 1,000 logins mark. Yeah, like I’m going to remember…
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