Partner with Us
Ways to Partner
with a Church Plant
Create A Support Team
Create a Church Plant Support Team, for the purpose of intentionally connecting the ministry of the sending church to the church plant.
Pray
Pray regularly in church services and staff meetings.
Regularly remind your church of their commitment, responsibility, and privilege to pray. Have them set their phone/clock alarms to the agreed-upon time and stop and pray.
Create a prayer chain that will commit to immediate prayer for real-time requests and needs.
Locate the planter and congregation’s geographic location on Google Earth and pray over the specific community.
Inform
Share regular updates in services.
Plan quarterly video updates to share within the worship service.
Share printed materials.
Share the planters’ social media platforms and have your church encourage them with regular messages of “You have been prayed for today.”
Give
Financially support the church plant as your primary local or national mission.
Make a long-term commitment until the plant is self-funding and self-governing (3-5 years).
Provide prayer cards and direct the congregation on how to support their missionary.
Bless the planter and spouse in generous ways that will nurture their marriage or family life.
Enlist other financial partners for the church plant. Church planting is costly. It takes a coalition of churches to plant a new church.
Assist
Allow the planter and congregation to have access to the institutional systems you have, for example financial or accounting software or marketing resources.
Learn
Take opportunities to read and study the art and science of church planting. This will help you become a stronger supporting congregation.
Understanding the nature of planting will also help you manage your expectations.
Care
Provide prayer cards and direct the congregation on how to support their missionary.
Provide date night and childcare opportunities for the planter and family.
Assign small groups and Sunday school classes to routinely write cards and letters of encouragement to the planter and congregation.
Send the planter to church planting and ministry conferences.
Understanding the nature of planting will also help you manage your expectations.
Serve
Send mission teams from your congregation for strategic ministry (outreach, service, prayer, construction).
Allocate two-three Sunday’s a year for your pastor to attend/serve at the plant.
If you are local, organize volunteer teams to regularly assist with ministry help on Sundays.
This may include sending a few families to serve as loaned church members for the first twelve months.
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