Free Church Planting Resources

Free Church Planting Checklist - Click here for a free comprehensive launch checklist with over 400 actions.

Free Church Equipment Checklist - Click here for a free list of equipment church planters should consider purchasing for their launch.

Free Network Church Planting Papers - Ever wondered how any and every church can get involved in church planting? Click here and here to download papers discussing networks of churches getting together to plant new churches. Planting churches is the most effective way to reach lost people. Find out how your church can be involved.

Free Comprehensive Church Planting Tutorial - Click here to begin an online church planting tutorial (80+ pages).   This comprehensive online tutorial covers over 25 different topics (e.g., calling, assessment, training, marketing, equipment, coaching, models, staffing, etc…)

Free Demographic Information - Call Church Marketing Solutions toll free at 866-342-5264 or click here for a free demographic report for your target area or click here for information about additional free information available on the internet

Free Church Planting Consultation - Looking for advice on where to start and what to do?  Contact us toll-free at 866-342-5264.  We will help connect you with the church planting resources you need.

Free demo of our unique online church planting project management system Converge - Click here for a FREE online demonstration of our church planting management system that delivers church planting resources in an easy to use system.  Enter sample as the username and sample as the password to enter the demonstration.  The online demonstration only includes action descriptions for the first milestone.  When you purchase your system, all actions will have detailed descriptions.

Free Launch Plan Strategy Documents - Church Planting Solutions has put together four sample documents for new church plants.  Click here for a to learn how to create an Outreach plan.  Click here to learn how to create a Marketing plan.  Click here for a sample networking plan.  Click here for a complete sample launch plan.

Free Blog/RSS/PodCast Point Paper - Click here to download a point paper discussing how your church can use these technologies.

Free Direct Mail FAQ - Click here to download a point paper discussing direct mail.

Free Marketing and Outreach Consultation - Call Church Marketing Solutions toll-free at 866-342-5264 for a free phone consultation to discuss new church marketing and outreach planning.

Free Branding Book - Click here to download a great book Called Branding for Church Planters by James Dalman of The Branding Shed.

Free Paper on Developing a Philosophy of Ministry - Click here for a copy of the paper on developing philosophy of ministry for your new church plant (one of the first things a church planter should do).

FREE Church Planting Wisdom Pamphlet - Click here to download a free collection of pieces of wisdom collected from various church planters. This collection of church planting wisdom was assembled from across the nation by Derek Brown in a blog series, entitled “Church Planting Wisdom.” You can find the original posts here. Derek’s blog can be found at http://www.desertfather.com.

FREE Fundraising Manual - Click here to download a free manual from Mission to North American that will help you develop your fundraising strategy.  It works through many topics including enlisting your support team, putting together a brochure, how to ask for money, and many more.  This manual will help you jump start your fundraising efforts.  This document provided courtesy of Fred Marsh, MNA Associate Coordinator.

Free Church Planter assessment tool - an online assessment for potential church planters.

Free Church Plant Visiting/Assessment Checklist - Click here to download a checklist you can use to assess new church plants you visit.  It was put together by Tadd Grandstaff at Pine Ridge Church in Mebane, NC.

Free Staffing Resources - check out our staffing page.

Free Facility Resources - check out our facility page.

Free Blog and Web Posts - Click here to access a variety of Blog and Web posts we think you will find particularly usefule/interesting.

Free Conference/Seminar Presentations - Select a presentation below:

Conference Topic / Presenter
Purpose Driven Church Planting Conference Click here to download Church Planting notes presented by Todd Wilson of Passion for Planting on the subject of new church planning.
National New Church Conference New Church Planning / Todd Wilson (ppt)
Outreach Evangelism: Starting Conversations with the Community / Brett Andrews (ppt)
Marketing the New Church / Kristal Dove (ppt / xls)
Beyond the Call: New Church Planning / Patrick Furgerson & Dan Converse (ppt)
Survey of Church Planting Resources / Patrick Furgerson (ppt / doc)
Understanding Who You Will Reach / Eric Reiss (doc)

Free Church Planting bibliography - Click here for a short list of "must read books for church planters.

Free Church Planting Survivability Report - Click here for a report on key factors for church plant survivability by Dr. Ed Stetzer and Phillip Connor of the Center for Missional Research, NAMB. Click here for a PowerPoint presentation to go with it.

Free Church Planting Search Engine - Use the box below to search our database of church planting resources.  Or if you like submit your church planting site to the engine or post the engine on your site.

Other High-Quality Fee-Based Services:

Church Marketing Solutions
Church Marketing Solutions (www.church-marketing.com)  functions as a non-profit, full-service marketing organization for churches.  We offer demographic, design, printing, and mail shop services at a fraction of the price of most commercial organizations.

Converge
Converge is a revolutionary step forward in church planting support.  It’s an entire church planting management system that delivers church planting resources in an easy to use system.  Converge is three powerful applications in one…a training module, a launch plan creation module, and a launch plan management module.  Version 2 is a joint partnership with Bob Logan of CoachNet and is being endorsed by many church planting leaders.   In addition to the core training materials by CoachNet, Version 2 will also come with a free add-on module authored by Ed Stetzer (NewChurches.com).  Live Media is providing video streaming services to enable delivery of online video training via Converge.  The expected release date for Version 2 is April, 2006.  Click here for more information.

CPS Full Services
Church Planting Solutions (www.church-planting-solutions.com) offers project management services to new churches.  We help manage the plan and complete many of the actions for church planters.  This service is unique (we are not aware of any other organizations offering it).  Consider us your part-time church planting expert working hard in the background to keep you working with people.  Click here for more information.

1-Day New Church Planning Workshop
This workshop targets planters who are called to plant, but are not sure how to get started.  We address questions such as “how much money will I need?  What staff should I look for?  How do I develop a launch plan?  What will opening day look like?  What kind of outreach and marketing should I do?  What type of facility should I look for?”  Our goal is to empower church planters (and their teams) to develop customized launch plans while helping to answer their questions.  The workshop is offered 3 to 4 times per year.  Click here for more information.

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