Friday Church Planting Resource: Mailchimp

Posted by on May 28, 2010 in Resources | 1 comment Today marks the beginning of a new series of Friday posts featuring church planting resources.  Today’s resource is Mailchimp.  At it’s core, Mailchimp is an email marketing program and email list manager.  It allows the church planter to import a list of contacts and begin sending email in high quality html formats.  Rather than sending out email in plain text, Mailchimp allows...
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Legal Wednesdays: Articles of Incorporation Part 1

Posted by on May 26, 2010 in Legal | 0 comments Ok there’s never a fun day to cover legal formation for church planting.  Monday is out because seriously who wants to start their week that way.  Friday is out because no one is going to say “Thank God It’s Legal Friday”.  So I figured  I’d shoot in between and start this new non-thought provoking but much needed church planting series on Wednesday. ...
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Is God Working in Spite of the Church?

Posted by on May 24, 2010 in Church Planting, Missional | 0 comments Let’s face it.  The church’s reputation is a little tainted.  The only stories we here any more in the media about the church are about scandal and narrow mindedness.  Many churches have ceased being about mission and become Christian islands in a sea of lost people.  As I work with church planters an interesting theme is emerging.  More and more church planters are getting back...
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Church Planting: Is it Reproduction or Cloning?

Posted by on May 17, 2010 in Church Planting, Discipleship, Missional | 3 comments Neil Cole says that only 4% of Southern Baptist churches will plant a church.  In his book Organic Church, Neil says on p. 119 Imagine the headlines if suddenly it was discovered that 96% of the women in America were no longer fertile and could not have babies.  We would instantly know two things: this is not natural so there is something wrong with their health.  We would also know that our...
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Coffee for Your Thoughts: Another Great Use of Craigslist

Posted by on May 15, 2010 in Church Planting, Launch Team, Strategy | 0 comments Bryan Myers, a church planter in Utah, discovered another great use for Craigslist.  He posted an ad titled, “Free Coffee for Your Thoughts.”  From this campaign, Bryan reports that four people want to join a Community Group.  Two of them are formerly LDS and one is currently LDS.  Make you wonder what Bryan put in the coffee.  What a great way to connect with people!  I love...
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