September 7, 2008
Just Asking: Five Questions for the Restoration Movement
Jim Tune urges Restoration Movement church planters to recover historical memory, doctrinal clarity, and family loyalty while pursuing unity and mission with grace.
Church Planting
Church Planting equips leaders and teams to start new congregations and multiply disciple-making communities. Explore biblically grounded resources on calling and vision, team building, evangelism, leadership development, worship gatherings, discipleship systems, and healthy launch strategies. You’ll also find guidance for fundraising, partnering with sending churches, contextualizing ministry, and sustaining spiritual health through the pressures of planting. Whether you’re discerning a call, preparing to launch, or strengthening an existing plant, these articles offer practical wisdom for planting churches that make disciples and serve their communities in Jesus’ name.
May 11, 2008
CHURCHES WITHOUT STEEPLES: Near the Gates of Hell
A new church in Svay Pak, Cambodia, meets in a former brothel, bringing gospel witness through Agape International Mission near one of Phnom Penh’s darkest places.
March 26, 2008
Stability Through Paralysis: posted 3/26/2008
A longtime church planter reflects on how new methods once sparked excitement, how age can crave stability, and why older leaders may look grumpy even when they’re grateful for bold, faithful change.
November 7, 2007
Interview With Vince Antonucci
Vince Antonucci shares how reading the Bible led him to Christ and into church planting. In this interview, he explains Forefront Christian Church’s focus on reaching the unchurched and why they’re willing to do ministry differently.
October 28, 2007
Multiplying Your Impact
Outreach magazine ranked “America’s Top 25 Multiplying Churches.” Five Christian churches made the list—each with a distinct approach to church planting, resourcing planters, and building reproducing churches for greater kingdom impact.
October 24, 2007
Interview with Jim Tune
Jim Tune shares why he sees Canada as a mission field and explains how Impact Canada is planting multicultural churches in major cities. He also discusses training new leaders, funding challenges, and partnering to build a reproducing movement.
September 19, 2007
Interview with Troy McMahon
Troy McMahon’s Route to Church Planting Troy McMahon has taken the nontraditional route to becoming a church planter. After years of leadership in the Navy and at General Mills, he joined the staff of Community Christian Church outside of Chicago and is now moving his family to Kansas City to launch a new church. McMahon describes how his background in engineering, the Navy, and manufacturing shaped his call to vocational ministry. He shares the turning points that moved him from multisite ministry into church planting. He outlines the Kansas City vision, timeline, and early steps toward a March 2, 2008
August 26, 2007
A Christian Church Opportunity
As U.S. population shifts, Christian churches must plant more congregations where growth is happening. This article surveys “static cities,” emerging regions, and cooperative networks, urging churches to respond to migration patterns with bold, sustained church planting.
August 5, 2007
How One Church Is Leaving a Legacy
When a church faces decline, closing doesn’t have to mean the end. Learn how one congregation chose a “legacy church” path—using its assets to restart as a new church—and the process that guided the decision.
July 29, 2007
Portraits of Mentors: Intentional Tending
A childhood gardening lesson becomes a picture of church planting. Three seasoned leaders intentionally mentor weary planters with prayer, questions, encouragement, and permission to take faithful risks when the early excitement fades.
July 18, 2007
Interview with John Wasem
John Wasem explains how healthy New Testament churches naturally reproduce through church planting, what success looks like beyond numbers, and why assessment, motivation, and theological faithfulness matter for planters and sending churches.
May 23, 2007
Interview with Dan Clymer
Dan and Linda Clymer share how Restoration House Ministries grew from internships and training into a church-planting effort across New England—equipping leaders, launching new congregations, and reaching diverse communities in the Northeast.
February 18, 2007
The NACC: Planting a Church in KC!
Dave Ferguson explains why planting new churches reaches people far from God, sharing Uni’s story of recovery and baptism through a new church community—and inviting readers to pray, give, and join a Kansas City launch team connected to the 2007 NACC.
February 4, 2007
MULTISITE CHURCHES: It DIDN’T Work for Us
A pastor reflects on the “fine print” of multisite ministry after his church closed a second campus. He shares lessons about unexpected difficulty, higher costs, disappointing outreach results, and the missing urgency that often fuels traditional church planting.
January 31, 2007
Interview with Dave Ferguson
Dave Ferguson reflects on Community Christian Church’s multisite growth and why he calls it a “reproducing church.” He explains alignment, leadership development, and how churches can prepare to launch new sites and plant churches.
January 21, 2007
A Growing House Church Movement in Canada
Stories from Connections Christian Church in Calgary show how a network of house churches builds community, mobilizes leaders, and lives missionally. Learn why “Living Room” gatherings focus on shared meals, Scripture discussion, prayer, and intentional replication.
November 5, 2006
Birthing Churches
Churches birth churches—when vision becomes commitment, partnerships form, and leaders prepare for a healthy launch. Greg Marksberry outlines the stages of church planting from preconception through postpartum care.
September 3, 2006
Challenged to Risk
Michael Corp shares how God used seasons of work, wandering, and renewal to shape a call to ministry—leading from Rhode Island to Florida and toward planting an English-speaking Christian church back home.
September 3, 2006
The Adventure of a Lifetime
A successful attorney senses God calling him to become a pastor and start a church. After a mission trip to Ghana and practical ministry training, Adventure Christian Church grows from a living room gathering to a thriving congregation in Louisville.
August 6, 2006
NNCC: The Great American Church-Planting Conference
Risk the Ride frames church planting as an exhilarating journey of highs and lows. This conference reflection shares stories, Scripture, and a call to send, go, and trust God through the chaos.
