Resources for Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy Multiplying Church

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Resources for Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Here are two great resources you should have if
  you are serious in the Sponsoring of new works

www.newchurchspecialities.org
www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net
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Six Legs of Sponsoring for the Partnering Church

• Vision Pastor and people capture the vision to
  be a multiplying church
• Draw Taking the dream and making it a reality
  
• Expansion Crystallize the plan
• Commissioning Commissioned Sent
• Resolve Regaining its footing in order to
  launch once more
• Vocation doing it again again

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Step 1 The Pastor/leader must catch the
  revelation form God to Sponsor.
• It all begins with the leader. Typically, as the
  Pastor goes so goes the church.
• The pastor is the key to reaching the harvest
  through church sponsoring. If he is willing,
  almost always the people are willing. If the
  pastor is hesitant, the people will be reluctant
  to move ahead and sponsor. Consider the following
  questions

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• 1. Why would the Pastor not want to plant?
• 2. What questions will have to be answered to get
  the Pastor to consider partnering and sponsoring?
• 3. What does the congregation think about
  partnering and sponsoring?
• "Church planting is the most effective means of
  evangelism under heaven."
• Church Planting for a Greater Harvest-- Peter
  Wagner
• "It takes all kinds of churches to reach all
  kinds of people." - Rick Warren

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Step 2 Build a conviction to sponsor through
  prayer.
• Need does not constitute burden.
• Prayer is the critical component.
• Pastors should make the time to take the time
  to spend time with God.

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Step 3 Cast the vision to the entire
  congregation.
• You have to get the people to buy into the
  sponsoring vision. Begin with key leaders. Put
  books into their hands. Take them to Sponsoring
  Starbucks Churches in a Folgers World, CPG
  conferences and attend the Partners in Church
  Planting Training Track with NAMB together.
• Go to www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net and search
  for PiCP

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• In casting the vision beware of some obstacles
  you will have to clear.
• 1. Fear
• 2. Assets (What will it cost?)
• 3. Investment of friendships
• 4. Investment of leadership
• 5. Lack of expertise
• 6. Superiority (We can do it all)
• 7. Self-centeredness
• 8. Priority of ministry
• 9. Timing of the sponsoring role
• 10. Ownership

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Step 4 Cultivate the resources
• The sponsor church has many resources necessary
  to help a new church get going. The key four need
  to be cultivated
• 1. Capital
• 2. Kin Sorry no C! (a fishing pool for
  leaders and workers)
• 3. Care and supervision
• 4. Cultivation of team members

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• 5 Reasons Why People Give To Church Planting
• (for further help contact Greg Pena at
  gpena_at_namb.net)
• 1. Because they believe in the Church Planter.
• 2. Because they have a personal relationship with
  the person who asks for the gift.
• 3. Because they believe in the cause--they want
  to invest in ministry.
• 4. Because of the content of the
  communication--they are approached with a good
  presentation.
• 5. Because of the method of the
  communication--the more personal it is, the more
  successful it will be.

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Avoid the 3 Biggest Mistakes In Church
  Sponsoring
• 1. Moving forward with plans before the entire
  congregation has bought in and owns the vision
• 2. Poor planter selection and lack of a clear new
  church action plan (Planting is vogue right now
  but it is work)
• 3. Inability to release control of the new
  church More assistance on the Top
  Ten Mistakes Sponsoring Churches Make can be
  found at the Church Planters Resources Café _at_
  www.PlanterDude.com and Sponsoring Starbucks
  Churches in a Folgers World by Tom Cheyney and
  Rodney Harrison (Broadman Holman Publishing
  December 2007).

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Step 5 Reflect on the strategic opportunities.
• Look around at the locations that might be good
  areas to plant. Determine the model you might
  utilize in sponsoring. You can find models on the
  Church Planting Village.
• Twenty-One Church Planting Models for the
  Twenty-First Century by Tom Cheyney
• www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net
• Your One Stop Shop For Church Planting

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Step 6 Map out a PATH.
• Take them to Sponsoring Starbucks Churches in
  a Folgers World, conferences and attend the
  Partners in Church Planting Training Track with
  NAMB together.
• These training events will help
• you develop a Sponsoring
• Church Action Plan.

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Make any TRACK corrections for getting back on
  path.
• 1. Think about the present situation
• 2. Remember to have an end result in mind
• 3. Advance strategically purposefully
• 4. Calculate your progress navigate the
  problems
• 5. Keep your people on board by showing the
  results

More information regarding TRACK can be found in
The Ripple Church by Phil Stevenson
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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Step 7 Make the Investment.
• Anything worthwhile has a cost involved. A
  sponsor church will make five incredible
  investments
• 1. Resources
• 2. Riches
• 3. Ranch Space
• 4. Reach Resources
• 5. Rate of Development
• Sponsoring always costs something, but the
  results are always worth it!

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Multiplying Church

• Step 8 Commemorate the release.
• When releasing the sponsoring team be sure to
  design a service that is a combination of
  commemoration, celebration and commission.
• Always remember the trinity of releasing the
  new church plant!

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Multiplying Church

• How To Let Go of the New Church
• Emotionally, keep telling yourself to let go!
• It's not easy.
• 2. Continue to honor your financial commitments
  to the new church, but don't second-guess the
  decisions that the new church is making. Trust
  them!

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How To Let Go of the New Church
• 3. Recognize your changing relationship with both
  the church planter and the new church.
• 4. As the sponsor, know when to pull the plug for
  good and let the new church stand on its own.

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Multiplying Church

• How To Let Go of the New Church
• 5. If the new church is not released, the
  relationship between the two churches will be
  troubled long-term. First, the sponsor church
  won't recover as quickly, because it will be
  focusing on the needs of two churches. And
  secondly, the new church won't develop rightly.
  It will either develop resentment or dependency
  (or both) toward the sponsor church. So
  releasing the new church is crucial to its
  long-term health.

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How To Commemorate Its Success
• 1.Continue to pray for the new church publicly,
  with thankfulness to God for the lives that are
  being changed.
• 2.Celebrate the grand opening by video taping the
  service and playing parts of it to the sponsor
  church.
• 3.Have the planter come on Sunday night or
  Wednesday night and share an update of how the
  new church is progressing.
• 4.Celebrate the first baptism service. Take
  pictures and show them to the sponsor church.

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Multiplying Church

• How To Commemorate Its Success
• 5. Celebrate the first anniversary service.
  Recount how God has blessed and been at work
  during the first year.
• 6.Invite the new church to participate and go
  with you to the state evangelism meeting. Go
  with the planter to the Pastor's Wives Retreat
  and other district functions. Move from acting
  like the "sponsor" church, to treating them as a
  "sister" church. (But just know that as the
  sponsor, you will always feel the pride a sponsor
  feels when your child does well!)
• 7. Schedule the formal church organization
  service at a time when people from the sponsor
  church can join in the celebration by attending.

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Step 9
• Give attention to the recuperation.
• The sponsor needs to concentrate on
  stabilizing. Make sure you regain your footing
  monetarily, spiritually, psychologically,
  numerically and relationally. This recovery time
  will often depend on the health of the sponsor
  prior to the birth.

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How To Replenish The Sponsor Church's Vision
• 1. First, take some time to rest.

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Multiplying Church

• How To Replenish The Sponsor Church's Vision
• 2. If it is led correctly, the sponsor church can
  experience a very clear sense of renewed vision
  from God.

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Multiplying Church

• How To Replenish The Sponsor Church's Vision
• 3. As the sponsor church pastor, establish clear
  goals and develop a detailed action plan as you
  lead the sponsor church forward.

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10 Steps to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How to Reload the Sponsor Church's Vision
• 4.Remember the following realities about the
  impact of sponsoring a new church
• a. Crowd revitalization - it usually takes 3-12
  months to recover if 10 of your average
  attendance goes with the new church.

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Multiplying Church

• How to Reload the Sponsor Church's Vision
• 4.Remember the following realities about the
  impact of sponsoring a new church
• b. Economic revitalization - the time required
  for this will depend on the number of tithers
  you have given and the length of time you have
  committed to support the new church.

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Multiplying Church

• How to Reload the Sponsor Church's Vision
• c. Leadership revitalization - it usually takes
  3-12 months to raise up new leaders to replace
  those who you send out in mission. In the
  sponsor church, the apprenticing of replacement
  leaders should begin in the pre-natal phase,
  before the new church is born. Lack of new
  leaders in the sponsor church indicates the need
  for improving your system of challenging,
  training and mobilizing people for ministry.

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Multiplying Church

• Step 10 Rebirth and Reproduce again.
• A healthy church should be capable of
  rebirthing and reproducing every three to four
  years.
• It is through reproducing churches we will be
  able to see whole regions taken for the glory of
  God, church planting movements arise and the
  Kingdom of God expand.
• (Dialogue and Q A)

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Thank You for Allowing Me to Journey with You
Today! God Bless You.
For more helpful church planting resources go
to www.PlanterDude.com www.Revitalization101.co
m www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net