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As a partner in a collaborative effort, Partner Churches have the opportunity to establish a
program to meet not only their church planting goals in a multiplying way, but also to provide
the same opportunity to those churches they plant.
The potential time, energy, and resource benefits for a Partner Church are significant.
The Partner Church benefits through:
- Participation in establishing a church-planting movement to fulfill the great commission to reach our postmodern world
- A credible evangelistic vision of multiplying 40-70 next generation churches over the effective life of your current church leadership (20-30 years)
- Qualified, screened church planterss that increase the impact of your church-planting investment
- Development of untapped evangelistic projects, ministries, and initiatives by the pastors-in-training as part of their "practicum" training requirement (for training churches)
- As a training church, up to $50,000 per year in equivalent staff resources with each church planter in training (as a result of the resident starting new initiatives you would otherwise pay staff to start), all while contributing to church planting
- Shared knowledge and best practices learning that comes back to the Partner Church through a connection to other like-minded churches
- Administrative services for all church planter financial contributions and support raising efforts
- Training support for church planters
In the future, for the planted church:
- Ability to exponentially multiply through church planting without losing unbudgeted funding or key individuals
- A coordinated recruiting effort to find potential church planters
- A coordinated process for assessing potential church planters
- A personalized, "residency style" training curriculum for future leaders your church will support
- Funding and monitoring of the startup, launch, and early growth activities of new church plants you participate in
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"As a rule of thumb it takes roughly a quarter of a million dollars to launch a healthy church using the standard congregational model. Few churches have that kind of start-up cash available. And as with most new businesses, if they are undercapitalized from the start, their chances of success are minimal. Add the wrong leader and an inadequate core group and disaster ensues."
(George Barna, The Second Coming of the Church)
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