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,
- Touch, equipping church leaders
- Dove International, training for ministry
- For New Churches, tools and resources for church planters
- GCI Ministry Development, equipping pastors and ministry leaders
- GCI Generations Ministries, equipping youth and family ministries
- Church Growth Inc, equipping for church growth (Charles Arn)
- 21st Century Strategies, equipping church leaders (Bill Easum)
- Leadership Network, developing church leaders
- Outreach, evangelism and church growth
- Preaching Today Media Store, preaching resources
- Kairos Church Planting, resources for church planters
- Church Planting Village, resources for church planters
- Freedom Graphics, products
- Tripod, building websites
- ChurchPlantMedia, building websites
- Faith Highway, web design, software, marketing
- Small Groups.com, developing small groups
- The Alpha Course (USA), small group evangelism program
- FaithTalk Equipper, training and resources for evangelistic small groups
- Pastor's Toolbox, resources for pastors (Rick Warren)
Videos
Here are video recordings of presentations relevant to church planting.
Audios
Here are audio recordings of presentations relevant to church planting.
- Being Mean About the Vision, Searcy
- Best Practices of Church Planters, Lovejoy
- Best Practices of Pastors' Wives, Lovejoy
- Biblical Missiology
- Big Impact, Evans
- Breaking the Missional Code, Stetzer
- Building Teams, Vanderstelt
- Built to Last Church Planting Style, Bloye
- Call of a Church Planter, Searcy
- Catalyzing Community, Bryant
- Church in the Making, Arment
- Church Unique, Mancini
- Comeback Churches, Stetzer
- Connecting with the Culture, Clements
- Courage Calling, Chandler
- Creating a Culture of Generosity, Graham
- Creative Worship 1, Sylvia
- Creative Worship 2, Sylvia
- Creative Worship 3, Sylvia
- Dwelling in the Kingdom, Stetzer
- Erwin McManus & Eric Bryant
- Funding Church Planting 1
- Funding Church Planting 2
- Kingdom Focused Church Planting, Stetzer
- Leading in Uncertain Financial Times, Lovejoy
- Marketing Attraction and Buzz, Jones
- Missional Church Planting, Stetzer
- Missional Worship
- Mistake Driven Church 1
- Mistake Driven Church 2
- Mistake Driven Church 3
- Moving People from Brokenness to Wholeness, Bryant
- Preaching to Culture, Keller
- Reaching the Post-Christian Culture, McCrary
- Replanting a Missional Church
- Spiritual Formation in a Missional World, Stetzer
- Starting Small Groups from Scratch
- Sylvia series 1: Leadership Gift
- Sylvia series 2: One Leader
- Sylvia series 3: Influence in All Areas
- Sylvia series 4: Developing Leaders
- Sylvia series 5: Focus Priorities
- Sylvia series 6: Personal Growth
- Sylvia series 7: Change
- System Approach to Church Planting, Searcy
- Traits of a Missional Church, Chandler
- When Your Vision has Outpaced Your Resources, Campbell
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Articles
Here are articles that address various aspects of church planting.
Demographic information
Here are sources of demographic research useful in understanding the community.
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Books
CMM's top ten
To learn about church planting, we recommend reading these books first.
- Planting Missional Churches, Ed Stetzer
- Church in the Making, Ben Arment
- Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century, Aubrey Malphurs
- Church Planting Land Mines, Tom Nebel
- Mission-Shaped Church
- Church Planting: Laying Foundations, Stuart Murray
- Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens, Neil Cole
- Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World, David Garrison
- Starting High Definition Churches , Ron Sylvia
- Starting A New Church: The Church Planter's Guide to Success, Ralph Moore
Also recommended
Here are other books we recommend.
- 10 Most Common Mistakes Made by New Church Starts, Jim Griffith, Bill Easum
- A Biblical Church Planting Manual: From the Book of Acts, Marlin Mull
- Church Planter’s Toolkit, Robert Logan
- Church Planting in the African American Community, Michael J. Cox and Joe Samuel Ratliff
- Church Planting in the African-American Context, Hozell C. Francis
- Church Planting: The Next Generation, Kevin Mannoia
- Churches Planting Churches, Bob Logan & Steve Ogne
- ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry, Eddie Gibbs
- Community of Kindness, Steve Sjogren and Rob Lewin
- Doing Church as a Team, Wayne Cordeiro
- Evangelism Outside the Box, Rick Richardson
- Fusion: turning first-time guests into fully-engaged members of your church, Nelson Searcy
- How to Select Church Planters, Charles Ridley
- How to Start a New Service, Charles Arn
- Igniting a Life of Generosity, Chris McDaniel
- Ministering Cross-Culturally, Sherwood G. Lingenfelter and Marvin K. Mayers
- Missional Church, Darrell L. Guder, ed.
- Missional: Joining God in the Neighborhood, Alan Roxburgh
- Multicultural Ministry, David A. Anderson
- Planting and Growing Urban Churches: From Dream to Reality, Harvie M. Conn
- Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age, Ed Stetzer
- Rediscovering Church, Lynne and Bill Hybels
- Starting a New Church, Dale Galloway and Warren Bird
- Transformational Church, Ed Stetzer & Thom Rainer
- Viral Churches, Ed Stetzer
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