Ten Principles of Church Planting
This blog post is an excerpt from World Impact’s Church PLANT Manual used in our Evangel School of Urban Church Plant schools.
Move from “something has to change” to a shared, one-year revitalization plan and a coach who walks with you as you pursue renewed health and impact in your neighborhood.
This covers the registration fee, meals, and resources for your church plant team. Teams are responsible for travel and lodging costs.
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You have stayed with your people and your neighborhood when others might have walked away. You carry the weight of preaching, counseling, and leading in a community of poverty—often while working another job and caring for your own family.
You sense God stirring something new: a revitalization, a re-plant in the same neighborhood, a relaunch, or a healthy transition to the next generation of leaders. You also know you cannot figure this out alone or bolt on a generic plan that ignores your context.
You want:
World Impact’s School of Church Revitalization helps pastors and teams move from “we know something needs to change” to “we have a Spirit-led, strategic plan we can actually follow.”
It is a guided process designed specifically for urban churches in under-resourced communities.
Across two intensive days, your team will work with experienced urban practitioners to build a contextual plan for revitalizing your church—one that honors your history, your people, and your place.
This blog post is an excerpt from World Impact’s Church PLANT Manual used in our Evangel School of Urban Church Plant schools.
This “Church Universal” includes all believers worldwide. But in a world seemingly saturated with churches, the question arises: “Why do we need more?”
One of the most helpful tools in your church planting arsenal is a formal process for evaluating your efforts.
If you still have a question after reading through these FAQs, please get in touch.
Our church plant team has a calling to plant a church among the poor.
How does your training specifically help us engage that target community?
Our training is based on church planting principles that are biblical, timeless, and cross all cultures. This includes the culture of the poor.
Our team and coaches have countless years of experience in planting, coaching, and living in communities of poverty.
We are not a funding missions organization.
Our focus is to bring church plant teams through a rigorous 2-day strategic planning process that culminates in an Evangel Charter (1-year plan of action).
We provide an Evangel Dean Coach during the 2-day Evangel School strategic planning time and an Evangel Field Coach for 1-year upon Chartering church plant teams.
We provide our Evangel Coaches at no cost for the church plant team.
The only requirement is to minimally meet with your Evangel Field Coach once a quarter for a review and next steps on your 1-year strategic plan.
We call this Prepare – Work – Review (PWR). We know what it is like to plant a church in an urban poor context and want you to focus on the task.
For example, women in ministry.
World Impact is a Christian Missions Organization that partners with any denomination, network, association of churches, or a local church, that can sign off on our Statement of Faith based on the tenants of the Nicene Creed and Lausanne Covenant.
We defer to the sending authority of your team on positions such as, women in ministry.
Yes. If you or members of your team as Spanish-speaking, we do provide training in Spanish.
Yes. Our experience in training teams over the many years has been with bi-vocational and co-vocational team members. We’re able to provide coaching insights that would be applicable for you and your team.
If you and your team have a vision to plant small, organic, churches that can meet in a variety of locations, Yes, our training is based on church planting principles to fit any context.
We can guide you in this vision.
Can’t I just take your training? No.
Churches plant churches. We are committed to Church authority and structure. We do not train individuals or teams that are not approved by leadership of a denomination, network, association of churches or a local church.
The journey to participating in an School of Church Revitalization training event starts with forming your Church Plant Team of 2-5 people. (Need any help?)
If you’re interested in World Impact’s urban church planting school or revitalization school but not ready to apply, our Ministry Development team is available to help.