| Church planters should do everything they can to prepare themselves for the challenges and adventure of church planting! The key to preparing well is to be asking the right questions! We help church planting leaders discover the right questions and find the answers they need in our comprehensive training course called The Essentials for Starting a Missional Church.
What’s so essential about Essentials?
Through years of training and coaching church planters, we have discovered what makes a church rise and fall. It is crucial for every church leader to have a clear understanding of these peaks and pitfalls.
Essentials is a compilation of practical tools and revolutionary insights that will help you enhance your ministry and set your church planting venture on course to reach your city and world with the gospel of Christ.
What will I learn in Essentials?
Get answers to seven essential questions that every church planter should be asking. Discuss topics such as:
- Capturing Jesus' Heart and Vision for the Kingdom of God
- Clarifying Your Calling
- Church Models: Thinking Outside the Box
- Understanding Your Context
- Cultural Adaptability With Biblical Integrity
- Cultivating an Intercessory Prayer Ministry
- Catalyzing Churches in a Postmodern Culture
- Building an Effective Launch Team
- Researching Your Cultural Context
- A Fresh Look at Evangelism
- Transformational Disciple-making
- How to Develop Multiplying Small Groups
- Leadership Development
- Budgeting, Bylaws, and Legal Issues
Will Essentials benefit me?
That depends. Do you have a desire to see the church reach her greatest potential? Are you looking for the most effective way to reach the unreached? Do you sense God is doing something in you that is beyond yourself? If so, this course is for you!
When is Essentials offered?
The Essentials is a training course that will give you a comprehensive look at starting a new church. Our most popular training is the two-day foundational seminar "The Essentials for Starting a Missional Church." We then offer a one-day follow up training that we call "The Essentials - Third Day." Click here to view a schedule of upcoming seminars and other training events.
What do we offer?
Our training courses include:
“The Essentials for Starting a Missional Church" (2-day intensive training)
“The Essentials - Third Day ” (1-day follow up to the intensive)
"Team Building Essentials for Church Planters" (one-day)
"Situational Leadership Training" (included in The Essentials-Third Day)
“Personal Leadership Development Using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or the DiSC”
Go to Events to learn more about upcoming training opportunities.
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