What Do I Do at Launch Team Meetings?

Posted by on Mar 18, 2010 in Church Planting, Launch Team | 0 comments Pt. 1 Building a Launch Team is Priority One Pt. 2 How Big Should the Launch Team Be? Pt. 3 Who Should Be Excluded from the Church? Pt. 4 Should I use a launch team covenant? Pt. 5 How Do I Build Momentum with the Launch Team? Launch team meetings are DNA setting experiences.  What you do and communicate at these meetings matter.  This is where the vision and values of the church begin to...
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How Do I Build Momentum with the Launch Team

Posted by on Mar 12, 2010 in Church Planting, Launch Team | 0 comments Pt. 1 Building a Launch Team is Priority One Pt. 2 How Big Should the Launch Team Be? Pt. 3 Who Should Be Excluded from the Church? Pt. 4 Should I use a launch team covenant? I worked with a planter once who had 40 adults on his launch team from day one.  Three months later the number of people on the team had shrunk to 25 adults.  What happened?  The team lost momentum.  Let’s start...
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Should I Use a Launch Team Covenant?

Posted by on Mar 10, 2010 in Church Planting, Discipleship, Launch Team | 2 comments Pt. 1 Building a Launch Team is Priority One. Pt. 2  How Big Should the Launch Team Be? Pt. 3 Who Should Be Excluded from the Church? Launch Team Covenants (as well as membership covenants) are about one thing: Expectations.  In part 3, I talked about filters for deciding who should be on the launch team.  The first two filters were beliefs and values.  Early on, beliefs and values are merely...
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Who Should Be Excluded from the Church

Posted by on Mar 8, 2010 in Church Planting, Launch Team | 0 comments Building a Launch Team is Priority One How Big Should the Launch Team Be In this post, we take a look at who should be included and excluded from the launch team.  Some of you may be saying, wait did you say exclude?  I thought we wanted big launch teams.  The answer is yes, you do want a big launch team, but without a few important filters you won’t have a launch team, you’ll have...
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How Big Should the Launch Team Be?

Posted by on Mar 5, 2010 in Church Planting, Launch Team | 0 comments Part 1: Building a Launch Team is Priority One. To answer this question about launch teams you have to begin with the end in mind.  One exercise I work through with each church planter is to explore what their expectations are for opening Sunday.  First, estimate how many people will be in attendance on opening Sunday.  This is a tough one.  Often times church planters will push back and say...
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