Took some of the team on our first church plant tour down the road at InDependence Church in Weston Fl. pastored by Nathan Griffiths.
When we walked into their facility on of my guys said, “Wow!” and that kind of sums it up. It’s really easy for Spirit-filled folks to get lazy and depend on the anointing at the expense of excellence. It is our desire at The Mission to have an anointed service that is done with excellence.
Nathan and his crew show up like four hours early to set up and the place looked really good. A special award should go to the nice girl who braved the cold to welcome people in the parking lot.
Travis Johnson has some pix here.
Congrats on the great launch Nathan! Lokin forward to hearing you make some noise!
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You would be surprised how much your people will love you when they find out you are human.
Chris Elrod is posting a series telling how things almost came undone for him and his ministry last year. Here in the blogsphere I am one step away from Benny Hinn’s microphone. You may be one step away from mega-greatness on your blog also. Chris has lots of great things to say on his blog. But that does not mean that the same is manifesting right now in his, or my, or your ministry (or life for that matter).
I can just imagine what this will do to his church. Now that he has decided to be who he is, the church ought to explode with people who need a pastor like him.
It’s like that church planting adage. The people you are going to attract look just like the guy you see in the mirror. Luckily for me I like the person I see in the mirror. That and my family is incredibly diverse.
(btw . . . if you know Chris, could you tell him to get a new pic for his blog header? The one he has looks like he just ran out of zoloft).
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Here’s a handsome gallery of amateur photos of 100 Brooklyn storefront churches, a study in grand awnings and signage surmounting humble brick buildings.
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I design websites so there is absolutely no way I am willing to drop a grand on an outside firm to create a site for The Mission. I have a bare bones site made from Wordpress but am thinking about further functionality.
I came across Web Empowered Church which is based on Typo3. Here are the extensions it comes with. Has anyone used it? I would think that an open sourced web package would be built on drupal or Joomla given their prevelance but have not found one.
Can anyone recommend any such package? I need all the basics, sermon dl, directory, calender, and the likes with the additional functionality of a shopping cart capable of selling digital products.
This is where that church planting forum would come in handy.
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My research of Church CMS software fell into two categories:
- Ridiculously Expensive
- Crappy
Since I was in the market for neither I decided to go with Quicken for financial tracking and a simple spreadsheet for attendance. Problem solved. Maybe some day in the future we will go with something more high tech but for now I have to be a good steward of my time and ministry finances. The learning curve on the crappy ones was too steep.
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Is there a real church planter forum anywhere on the net?
The only thing close is a place that calls itself a forum but really is just a collection of articles and lets people comment on them. Not real interaction.
I have been involved in forums for everything from fishtanks to internet marketing.
Come on planters! Get it together. We may have to start our own.
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Wow! Tracking offerings is enough to make you not want to receive an offering (almost).
There has to be a low cost alternative to the $1,000 suites of software. I test drove one opensource solution but it’s interface was pretty bad and the support was worse.
If you have any low cost suggestions please let me know. I just need to track offerings. I can do everything else with a spreadsheet at this time.
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Lots and lots going on around these parts. Haven’t blogged about it because I have been a little busy living it. 
I have a purely hypothetical question. When you answer it, you can give me a purely hypothetical answer 
Say you were going to plant a new work and really did not have any affiliations with any network that you wanted to plant with. So your ministry is really an open canvas. You could partner with literally any Denominational / Planting / Apostolic / Overseeing network you wanted. Money is no issue because you don’t expect any. Which would you choose?
There are some networks out there today that are really amazing in what they are doing and if you could choose whichever you wanted because you were free of any denominational ties why not make the right decision from jump?
So what about it? Who would you join up with?
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Now playing: Rick Pino - Holy Is Our King
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No, I am not planting a church (hallelujah!).
But I have a good friend that wants to and he is likely to do it sooner than later.
The problem is that he is a tireless worker. While I understand this is one of the needed traits of a church planter, he is likely to personally take on every task that comes along. His plan of action for the church plant is to rent a facility and work like crazy to get it filled.
This is not very strategic.
So here is what I need from you church planters:
If you could recommend one book to a future church planter on the current successful trends in church planting, what would it be?
I am actually going to be sending this to every church planter I can find but please either comment your recommendation or use the contact form.
Thanks!
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