CMM Church Planting Resources

Below is a catalog of church planting resources in six categories (click a link to jump to that category):

General resources

Here are websites with resources relevant to church planting,

Videos

Here are video recordings of presentations relevant to church planting.

Audios

Here are audio recordings of presentations relevant to church planting.

 

Articles

Here are articles that address various aspects of church planting.

Demographic information

Here are sources of demographic research useful in understanding the community.

Free

Fee based

Books

CMM's top ten

To learn about church planting, we recommend reading these books first.

  1. Planting Missional Churches, Ed Stetzer
  2. Church in the Making, Ben Arment
  3. Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century, Aubrey Malphurs 
  4. Church Planting Land Mines, Tom Nebel
  5. Mission-Shaped Church
  6. Church Planting: Laying Foundations, Stuart Murray
  7. Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens, Neil Cole
  8. Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World, David Garrison
  9. Starting High Definition Churches , Ron Sylvia
  10. Starting A New Church: The Church Planter's Guide to Success, Ralph Moore

Also recommended

Here are other books we recommend.