Ideation Experience – Church Planting from Niche to Norm

Posted by on May 22, 2009 in Church Planting, Small Town, Strategy | 11 comments Leadership Network is hosting what they are calling the Ideation Exeperience.  People were encouraged to submit ideas that could shape the Church in the coming decade.  Leadership Network then selected a handful (65 according to the website) to come to Dallas and discuss these Kingdom shaping ideas.  A friend encouraged me to submit my idea about small town church planting.  My idea was...
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Small Town Planting: Multi-site Model pt. 2

Posted by on Jun 20, 2008 in Church Planting, Small Town, Strategy | 0 comments Several churches are now successfully doing multi-site church planting. There is an increasing supply of resources available to churches through these emerging multi-site churches and networks. For example, the New Thing Network is a collaboration of reproducing churches. This network shares resources, sermons, training and creative elements. Leveraging the these resources, small town church...
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Small Town Planting: Mother-Daughter Model

Posted by on Jun 20, 2008 in Church Planting, Small Town, Strategy | 0 comments One of the biggest challenges in small town churches is how to reach the younger crowd. Change takes place slowly in most small town churches making it difficult to effectively create environments relevant to younger generations. Countless churches have gone through painful transitions over the past 20 years to move away from traditional worship to contemporary worship only to find out that by...
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Small Town Planting: Multi-site Model pt. 1

Posted by on Jun 7, 2008 in Church Planting, Small Town, Strategy | 0 comments There are several strategies for multi-site churches that are applicable to small town church planting. One of those strategies is to start campuses of a healthy congregation in a small town. The Crossings Christian Church in Quincy and Macomb Illinois is a great example. The Macomb campus is a video venue. They purchased property in Macomb (which is of course cheaper in small towns) and had...
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Brainstorming with Dave Ferguson

Posted by on Jun 5, 2008 in Church Planting, Small Town, Strategy | 0 comments I spend about 45 minutes today brainstorming with Dave Ferguson about small town church planting. Dave is the lead pastor at community Christian Church in Chicagoland, IL. They are a multi-site church with 9 campuses spread across the Chicago area. Dave is also the leader of the New Thing Network, a church planting network. It was fun to sit down and dream big Dave about how to plant churches...
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Small Town Planting: The Impact of Green

Posted by on May 16, 2008 in Church Planting, Small Town | 0 comments Have you noticed that the environment is big issue for Americans? If you haven’t crawl out of your box. Environmental awareness is here to stay and will play a prominent role in the upcoming elections. We are rapidly approaching a time where it won’t matter if you are liberal or conservative. Both sides will talk about the environment. They’ll just argue over who has the...
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