The Church Planting Strategy Lab provides church planting families and individuals with the multiple tools needed to initiate churches through developing a core team, developing spiritual friendships with searchers and skeptics, nurturing new Christians to maturity, and training leaders. The primary deliverable of this particular lab is a working plan for church planting in a specific context.

During the lab, the church planters develop . . .

• a time line for implementing a church planting strategy.
• tools for navigating and studying their target culture.
• theological frameworks for missional thinking (missio dei, the kingdom of God, incarnation).
• a spiritual formation track to nurture searchers and Christians to maturity.
• patterns of spiritual formation in intergenerational small groups.
• missional connection to community.
• ability to structure missional worship.
• tools for launching a public, celebratory worship.
• guidelines for building a church-planting team.
• children’s ministry in church planting.
• youth ministry in church planting.
• patterns of personal care.