Leading Your Church in Church Planting: Some Resources to Get You Started 4

This is the third post in my present series to assist pastors in leading their churches in church planting.  For more information on the previous two posts, see the links below:

Part 1 – How Churches Grow: The Other Wing of the Airplane”

Part 2 – 7 Reasons for Leading Your Church in Church Planting”

Today, I wish to share with you a few resources to provide you with some assistance in this area.  Please note, while there are numerous resources available on church planting, few resources exist on leading an established church in this area of ministry.  The following are specifically related to the established church.

Unfortunately, I was unable to locate links for some of the resources listed below.

Books:

Phil Stevenson, The Ripple Church: Multiply Your Ministry by Parenting New Churches (Indianapolis, IN: The Wesleyan Church, 2004).  If you can only afford one book, this would be the one that I would recommend.

Here is my review of Stevenson’s book.

Ralph Moore, How to Multiply Your Church: the Most Effective Way to Grow (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 2009).

Rodney Harrison, Tom Cheyney, Don Overstreet, Spin-Off Churches: How One Church Successfully Plants Another (Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2008).

Jack Redford, Planting New Churches (Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1978).  This book is long out of print.  However, it contains helpful information on working with the established church to plant churches.

Rodney Harrison, Seven Steps for Planting Churches, Partnering Church Edition  (North American Mission Board, 2004).

While I do not offer a complete book on the topic, two of the chapters in my work Discovering Church Planting address the role of the mother church in church planting.  Ed Stetzer also offers a chapter on churches planting churches in his book Planting Missional Churches. Aubrey Malphurs includes a chapter on the need for new churches to plant churches in his book Planting Growing Churches (2nd ed).

On-line Links:

“Addressing Objections to Church Planting”

“The Art of Vision Casting for Church Multiplication”

“The Great Commission and Church Planting”

“The Mother Church and Church Planting”

Workbooks:

Paul Becker, Mark Williams, and Jim Carpenter The Dynamic Daughter Church Planting Handbook (DCPI, 1999).  The section addressing how to overcome objections to church planting is worth the cost of the resource.

Resource Kits:

North American Mission Board, Church Planting Starter Kit (North American Mission Board).  This is an excellent resource that includes workbooks and video resources for adults, youth, and children.  While it was written for Southern Baptist Churches, it includes a great deal of information that is relevant to other groups.

Robert E. Logan, Churches Planting Churches (Church Smart Resources).   This resource contains a workbook, audio, and video sessions.