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Category: Church Planting

Are You Being Honest with Yourself?

Integrity is essential for leadership credibility.  And for many leaders the starting point of losing integrity is when they stop being honest with themselves.   When you lead an organization, team or church all eyes are on you. The success and progress of your organization is strangely intertwined with your significance and self-esteem. This is what makes it difficult for us to be honest with ourselves. There are times when things are not going as…Continue Reading

LAUNCH Network Celebrates Two Years

To celebrate the 2-year anniversary of the LAUNCH Network we recently hosted a series of Vision Webinars. Here are a few highlights just in case you missed it. Past Two Years 39 Parent Churches (sending churches) we’ve partnered with to plant a new church.  Our mission is to Partner with churches to inspire and equip next generation planters to lead strong.  So this is the #1 measure on our scoreboard. 110 Church Plant candidates assessed 63 Church planters trained 34…Continue Reading

5 Questions Potential Planters Need to Ask

I frequently tell young men that church planting is the scariest, riskiest, most challenging, yet rewarding thing you could ever do with your life.  There’s never been a greater time in the history of our nation to see a new movement of church planting. The US Census Bureau is projecting a net gain of 30 million new people in the US by 2020.  With 3500 Churches closing their doors each year and only 4000 churches…Continue Reading

Are We Relating to the Unreached?

Anytime you start a new business, organization or church it’s important to research and understand the voice of your customer.  Why would anyone design a brand of services without the customer in mind?  That just doesn’t make sense.  However one of the biggest obstacles to truly understanding the voice of our customer is our familiarity with our own industry.  For example, when a young man decides to plant a church one of his first assignments…Continue Reading

Reverse Engineering Success

Why do some leaders succeed and others fail?  Why is it that two church planters arrive in the same city, at the same time and one sees large crowds and life change, while the other struggles and experiences a painful failure?  Okay, I know sometimes there are spiritual factors at play, othertimes it’s community context, I get that.  But I really believe most failures are due to leadership issues? It seems that too many inspired…Continue Reading