Planting Missional Churches Your Guide to Starting Churches that Multiply

Planting a church is one of the most exciting adventures you’ll ever embark on. It’s also one of the hardest. It requires initiative, leadership, strategy, systems, and a lot of prayer. In this second edition of Planting Missional Churches, not only will you find a completely redesigned book with new content in every single chapter, but you will also find several new chapters on topics such as church multiplication, residencies, multi-ethnic ministry, multisite, denominations and networks, and spiritual leadership. So if you’re planting a church, be prepared. Use this book as a guide to build the needed ministry areas so that you can multiply over and over again. For additional resources visit www.newchurches.com/PMC.

Ed Stetzer is the Executive Director of LifeWay Research, a prolific author, and well-known conference and seminar leader. Ed has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches and trained pastors and church planters on six continents.
 
Daniel Im is the Director of Church Multiplication for LifeWay and NewChurches.com. Daniel has served and pastored in church plants and multisite churches ranging from 100 to 50,000 people in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Korea, and Edmonton.

Preface to the 2nd Edition
Section 1 - The Foundations of Church Planting
Ch 1 - The Basics of Church Planting
Ch 2 - Redeveloping a Missional Mind-Set for North America
Ch 3 - The Biblical Basis of Church Planting
Ch 4 - What Makes a Church Planter?
 
Section 2 - Models of Church Planting
Ch 5 - Leadership Models
Ch 6 - Missional/Incarnational Model
Ch 7 - Simple Churches
Ch 8 - Multi-Ethnic or Mono-Ethnic Churches
Ch 9 - Multisite Planting 
 
Section 3 - Systems for Church Planting
Ch 10 - Church Structure
Ch 11 - Pastor-Planter Leadership Issues
Ch 12 - Choosing a Focus Group
Ch 13 - Developing a Launch Team
Ch 14 - Finding and Handling Finances
Ch 15 - Finding a Meeting Place 
Ch 16 - The Launch - The Birth Day of a New Church 
Ch 17 - Growth in the New Church 
Ch 18 - Congregational Formation
 
Section 4 - Ministry Areas for Church Planting 
Ch 19 - Building a Team 
Ch 20 - Evangelism 
Ch 21 - Small Groups
Ch 22 - Worship 
Ch 23 - Preaching
Ch 24 - Spiritual Formation 
Ch 25 – Children
 
Section 5 - Multiplication and Movements
Ch 26 - Churches Planting Churches 
Ch 27 - Residencies
Ch 28 - Denominations and Networks 
Ch 29 - Breaking the Mold: Church Planting Movements 
Ch 30 - Spiritual Leadership