Articles for tag: Launch Team

October 11, 2013

Christian Standard

What I Want to Tell Church Planters

By Aaron Brockett Six months after the grand opening of our church plant, I hit a wall. The combination of seeing the last of the “well-wishers” depart, watching our first disillusioned family leave the church, and experiencing the drought of summer attendance was too much. I”d given everything I had to get this young church started, and now the needle of my emotional tank was firmly planted on empty. I wanted to bail. To be honest, I was irritated with the stories of church planters turned megachurch pastors who made it look so easy (or so I thought). On paper,

April 11, 2011

Christian Standard

2|42 Community Church

By Kent E. Fillinger Bob Smith was eager to see a new church planted in his hometown of Brighton, Michigan. Brighton is located in Livingston County, which at the time was one of the fastest-growing counties in America. Smith believed a new church was needed to reach the new people who were moving in. But Smith was neither a preacher nor a church planter. Smith classified himself as “just a cop.” Smith raised $50,000 in seed money. He created homemade brochures touting the need for a church plant in Brighton, and he started to attend Exponential, the national church planting

July 9, 2006

Christian Standard

Lessons I Learned While Planting a Church

By Bob Williams Planting a church is absolutely exhilarating and undoubtedly exhausting! The associate minister at our church, Bryan Fakes, likes to say, “It”s like trying to drink water from a fire hose.” Church planting can be treacherous. With that in mind, I would like to share some lessons that might help others navigate the terrain. Walk by faith, but keep grounded in reality””Most church-planting types are faith-walking, visionary, risk-takers. Like David, they”re eager to take on giants. That is good. Faith is a key characteristic for lead planters and churches that intend to make an impact. But it is

December 11, 2005

Christian Standard

What Can a Coach Do for You?

By Jeff Bennett Two years ago I accepted the call to plant a church in a northwest suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, with mixed emotions. Excitement came with the thought of going on this new adventure with God. But I was apprehensive because I had never done anything like this before. My wife, Lisa, and I had spent our first eight years of full-time ministry at a fast-growing, established church in northeast Ohio. My experience of church planting was this: I knew some guys who had planted churches. I even once went to a Mets game with the president of a

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