Church Planting Tactics

Enough theory. Time to execute.

  • A Great Way to Torpedo Your Church Plant

    Looking for an easy way to sabotage your new church plant? Let your guard down and play loose with the church’s finances and/or yours. Steve Smith offers us some great financial DON’TS on Gary Rohrmayer’s Converge USA blog. Here are a few that caught my eye: Not carrying liability insurance Counting money by yourself –…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource: Stock Images

    Whether you’re designing a website or print piece, a good graphic really is worth a 1,000 words. What’s the Problem? One of the most difficult things about design to be finding images to use.   So where do you go? You could go to Google Images and illegally pirate other people’s images, but that’s probably not…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource: Examen.Me discipleship tool

    Tap into the inner-technophile in your launch team and encourage them to use Examen.Me to deepen their walk with God. The account is free and easy to use. How would you use this as part of your overall discipleship strategy?

  • Demographics that Affect Your Church Plant

    The results of the 2010 Census are finally starting to trickle out. Here are some interesting findings as outlined in a CNN blog post: “America is older and more middle-aged-looking than ever before Young people [are ] choosing to stay single longer and have kids later The Northeast is generally much older than the Southwest.…

  • 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…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource: WorshipPlanning.com

    The advent of  ‘freemium’ pricing plans has been a boon to church plants. There is a lot you can do on the free version of many software solutions before you bump up against having to pay for the premium service. WorshipPlanning.com is designed specifically for churches. For established churches they offer a 30-day trial, but…

  • New FaceBook Tool Your Church Should Use This Week

    FaceBook unveiled a new feature – Questions. Sounds simple enough. It allows you to ask a question, send it to your friends, and have them respond back. Similar to online surveys or polls, it’s meant to be social in nature. But you should immediately see the benefit of using it to learn about your community,…

  • FREE Church Plant Resource: Live Stream Your Services

    For years, large churches have used media like radio and television to get their message out. But you’re a new church plant with limited resources. What’s the Problem? You sense the need to have an online campus; at least more than just podcasting your sermons. You know that there are people in your congregation that…

  • Podcasting Your Worship

    It is a great idea to record your sermons and podcast them from your website. It will give pre-visitors a chance to get a feel for the church and make an early connection with you. What’s the Problem? Recording the sermons is one thing, but recording and “publishing” your worship set is almost certainly a…

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