Read this important article about church planting in America. This article is also featured at www.ministry127.com.

Read this article from Rev. Jeremy Rowland about Effective Church Planting.

Read these ten questions about church planting as asked by Mark Irmler.

Finding the right location to start a church is extremely important. Assuming that God has led you to start a church, and assuming that your pastor has given you his blessing, you must determine God’s place to start this new church. What factors are involved in locating the “right” place and what constitutes a needy [...]

One of the greatest problems a new church planter faces will be the answer to this question. “What do I do when someone comes to our church from another good Baptist church?” Every pastor eventually faces this dilemma, and how he handles this can either make or break a ministry. The other side of this [...]

Why are some churches warm and friendly while others are cold and uninviting? Members of churches must be trained to be friendly, kind and considerate. Of course the character of a church often very closely follows the behavior of the pastor and his wife. If the pastor is exemplifies a friendly attitude, others will learn [...]

I speak in many churches each year and get bulletins and newsletters from other churches in which I do not speak.  Many times these churches list the ministries of the church in the bulletins for the church congregation and others to see.  This is a good idea so that members can see ministries in which [...]

“Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others. It forms one of the oldest and most common means of sharing (unproven) facts and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information transmitted. The term also carries implications that the [...]

I have divided the preparatory time for planting a church into six time periods. These categories describe the planning and preparation schedule for starting a new church. The three biggest failures of church planting are: a lack of preparation, a lack of hard work, and a failure to connect with people. Two years before the [...]

Following is a sample of the Declaration of a Local Church, generally given on the last night of the Get-Acquainted Meetings. –sample– A Declaration to Community Baptist Church Cascade, Michigan May 8, 2008 Be it known to all that will hear or read this declaration, both now and hereafter, on this 8th day of May [...]