How to Finance Your Sponsored New Church Plant

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How to Finance Your Sponsored New Church Plant

• By
• Tom Cheyney

A Sponsoring Church Resource
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How to Finance Your Sponsored New Church Plant

• Adapted from
• Sponsoring New Churches In a Postmodern Age
  Starting Starbucks Churches In a Folgerss World
• A Companion Teaching Resource

A Sponsoring Church Resource
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Financing Your Church Plant Vision
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Arranging Your Financial Support

• What Do I Need?
• Start-up Budget __________
• Operational Budget ____________
• Salary Support _______________
• Housing Support ____________
• Insurance Protection ________

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Arranging Your Salary Support

• How much will it cost? It will cost more than
  you think!
• It depends
• On the size of your vision
• On the model of your plant
• On the type of launch
• On the people you are trying to reach
• On your S.H.A.P.E. as a planter

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Arranging Your Salary Support

• Who will pay for it?
• The vision you write you must underwrite!
• People give to people
• Vision attracts resources
• Resources are in the harvest field
• You have not because you ask not
• People need a reason and an opportunity to give

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Sources of Funds

• Building networks
• Talk their budget language
• Soft needs or brick and mortar?
• People give to vision, not need
• Get a job!

• Getting others involved
• Talk their heart language
• A hand-up, not a handout

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Develop a Support StrategyTwelve Steps

• Step 1 Begin with the Home Church
• Step 2 Determine to Whom I Will Go for Support
• Step 3 Record and Catalog Prospects
• Step 4 Mail the First Prayer Letter
• Step 5 Make Appointments

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Develop a Support StrategyTwelve Steps

• Step 6 Conduct the Visit
• Step 7 Track Support
• Step 8 Say Thank You
• Step 9 Conduct a letter/Phone Strategy
• Step 10 Expand Contacts

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Develop a Support StrategyTwelve Steps

• Step 11 Cultivate Support
• Step 12 Resolicit for Support

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Financing Your Church Plant Vision

• By
• Tom Cheyney

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Here are some options that are working for
churches desiring to sponsor new works across the
country!
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Workable Options for Financing a New Work

• Building a 49-week budget for your church!
• One way that many mission-minded churches have
  found that works quite easily for the mother
  church is to build its own budget in a 49-week
  budget and then use the three additional weeks
  throughout the year to give the entire offering
  to the new plant.

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Workable Options for Financing a New Work

• Put the sponsored church within your weekly budget

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Workable Options for Financing a New Work

• Use your staff minister of missions to start the
  new work!
• Another way that many mission-minded churches
  have found that works is to use their already
  supported staff member to get a new church up and
  going.

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Workable Options for Financing a New Work

• Have your church planter visit your church at
  least bimonthly to share the vision and successes
  of the new work and then take up a special
  offering.

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Workable Options for Financing a New Work

• Use your churchs missions efforts (such as
  mission trips) to help your sponsored church to
  grow!

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Workable Options for Financing a New Work

• Designate 3 of your weekly offerings to the new
  church plant.
• (This would be above your Cooperative Program
  giving, obviously!)

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Workable Options for Financing a New Work

• Build a cluster of at least three other churches
  all doing one or more of the previous ideas to
  support and finance the sponsored new work.

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Funding the Vision How, When, and Where to Raise
Support

• (OR)

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Show Me the MONEY!!
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FIRST AND FOREMOST

• YOU MUST BE IN GODS WILL
• IF NOT, you are sinning by stealing.
• FINANCES MUST REMAIN SECONDARY

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HUSBANDS, REMEMBER

• You often have the greatest sense of calling for
  the church plant.
• Your wife has the call to nest.

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WIVES, REMEMBER

• God loves your children more than you.
• God is not poor.
• God can be trusted.
• God is interested in conforming you to Christ.

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WHY?

• Technology costs.
• Video projector
• Sound system
• Computer (laser quality printer)
• Music ministry
• Facilities cost.
• Utilities, etc.
• Ministry costs.

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WHY?

• Because it causes you to define and communicate
  the vision.

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HOW?

• Denomination
• Sponsoring church.
• Advantages could include
• Stability for plant.
• Blessing for the sponsor.
• Disadvantages could include
• Conflict of vision implementation.
• If they liked your way of reaching the unchurched
  they would have done it themselves.
• Pastoral leadership turnover.

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HOW?

• Denomination
• Sponsoring church
• Individuals and churches
• Advantages could include
• Less committee red tape.
• More personal involvement.
• Disadvantages could include
• More time spent fundraising.
• More vulnerable to personalities.

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HOW?

• Determine individuals, organizations, churches,
  etc., that you know well.
• Do they believe in you and your calling?
• Have they been used by God in your development?
• Do they have the heart to be part of Gods plan?
• If not, can they be developed?
• Do they control or trust?

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HOW?

• Present the vision.
• Make it compelling.
• Make it concrete.
• Make it concise.

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Compelling

• Why is it worthy?
• 70,000 people in such and such county
• ONLY approximately 300 attend evangelical
  churches
• 90 are unchurched
• 10 churched count

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Concrete

• What can they do?
• Not needs (Remember PTL)
• Needs project the image of mooching.
• Not guilt.
• The hungry in China never cleaned my plate!
• People dont like guilt trips, but they respond
  to vision.
• Visible- facilities, systems, technology
• Have a timeline.

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Concise

• Know your needs. Ask, How does this help
  implement the vision?
• Make it visible.
• Make it BUDGETED.

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Advantages of Budgeted Support

• Allows for proactive planning.
• Aids NAMB benefits determination.
• Prevents handout mentality.

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Remember

• Value prayer more than cash.
• Man is depraved. THAT MEANS YOU!
• Abstain from all appearance of evil.
• ACCOUNTABILITY

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Yokefellows Creating Partners in Ministry

• OR
• Show Me the Manpower

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Why Develop Partnerships?

• Church Planting is Labor Intensive
• It Helps Create a Church Planting Movement
• It Strengthens Both Parties

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Partnership Church Roles

• VBS, Backyard Bible Clubs, etc.
• Survey teams
• Servant evangelism
• Construction
• Vacation (not what you think!)

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Church Plant Roles

• Organization
• Know what you need, when, where
• Think of all possibilities, then prepare
• Ministry
• Send them away blessed and exhausted
• Make it personal, involve your people

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Benefits of Partnerships

• Missions becomes personal
• The newly churched learn about us--- Southern
  Baptists

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Where to find partners

• Seminary friends
• Home churches
• Your prayer support group
• State partnerships

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Guidelines

• Communication
• Your needs
• Their expectations
• Prepare
• Do not waste their time
• Build a long-term relationship

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Enjoy theRelationship!
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How to Finance Your Sponsored New Church Plant

• By
• Tom Cheyney

A Sponsoring Church Resource