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Church Planter Training

Posted on Dec 6, 2007

It has grown increasingly difficult to find quality men who will move their families to another state such as Missouri to plant a new church. It seems that if we are to continue to plant new churches then we must identify and train church planters from among our own local churches. To aid us in this process, I would like to propose that we organize a basic training program in church planting.

The following are some of the things that I envision to make such a program come to fruition:

  • Pastors would identify 1 or 2 gifted individuals or couples from our churches who have express interest in being part of a bi-vocational church planting team. Pastors should look for individuals who have differing skills in evangelism, teaching, preaching, worship, etc.
  • Invitations would be sent to these individuals asking them to participate in a church planting basic training at a central location. I will lead this training program and it will be done over several months with assignments being completed in their church or community. Where necessary I would bring in people who are experienced in the different facets of church planting to facilitate the learning process.
  • Basic Training will be designed to walk a church planting team through an intensive journey of exploring the strategic issues of a church planting process and of assisting them in developing a customized strategy for planting healthy, reproductive churches.
  • The following topics would be covered:
    • Prayer
    • Dedication
    • Vision
    • Values
    • Focus Group
    • Mission Statement
    • Evangelism Core group
    • Worship
    • Leadership Development
    • Building Relationships
    • Master Plan
    • Administrative Issues
    • Mileposts
  • During training, we will trust God to pull team members together into a cohesive group that have the same heart and mission for planting a church in a viable area.
  • Our aim is to put these teams on the field in bi-vocational positions where they will begin to form home cell groups within their community as they plan for a launch date within 15-18 months.

Please join me in prayer that we could see such a training program up and running in the near future. I want to wish all of our churches a very Merry Christmas and I pray that God will use your church in a mighty way in 2008.Danny Kirk


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