Resources

(2006)

1. Bill Easum, Beyond The Box, Group Publishing, 2003. Also available in Downloadable PDF Format 

2. Bill Easum, Church Planting Workbook, www.easumbandy.com in our Store under workbooks

3.Twenty-Five Questions for Planting a Healthy Church, Kappas, Greg, and Rohremayer, Gary,  that contains 220 MB of helpful information. You can find it in our store click here

4. Traditional approaches -- "Planting New Churches", reprint articles, Net Results, $12.00, 806-762-8094

5. Sprung Instant Structures.  Offers a revolutionary way to put up quick, good looking buildings in record time with a 25-year guarantee. 800-528-9899, click here

6. Church Community Builder is a web based church management system that helps a church’s staff, leaders, members, and visitors easily communicate and track information so that more people can become fully involved in the life of your church. www.churchcommunitybuilder.com -- Toll free 866-242-1199

7. 44 Questions for Church Planters, Lyle Schaller, Abingdon Press.

8. Malkoff and Associates are project managers.  They also help churches deal with the city or state government regarding restrictions, zoning, or anything that stands in the way of building, expanding, or relocating.  They are the primary firm that helped Saddleback Church through its 52 moves.  1-800-MALKOFF (625-5633) or 714-288-6200.   18456 Lincoln Circle, Villa Park, CA 92861.  Fax 714-288-6210.

9. The Home Mission Board of the SBC has developed resources for a variety of languages. Call 1-800-634-2462.

10. Portable Church Industries sells all the equipment a group needs to start a church in rented facilities even to the point of the van in which to transport it.  Six people and two hours and 800 people can be accommodated. Call 1-800-939-7722. http://www.portablechurch.com/

11. Churchmart has a variety of excellent materials by people who have started new churches. 1-800-253-4276. http://www.churchmart.com/catalog/default.php

12. There are several good profile tests to give potential church planters.  DISC, contact Jim Beard at NAMS, 800-441-6267, $50 each; Role Preference Inventory, self scoring 800-443-1976, $5 each; and the popular Meyers-Briggs.

13. Church Planter's Toolkit, Robert Logan and Steve Ogne, CRM Publishing, 800-253-4CRM, $69.95.

14. How to Implement a Regional Church Planting Vision, Robert Logan, CRM Publishing, 800-253-4CRM, $79.95.

15. Church Planting In The African-American Context, by Hozell Francis

16. Moore, Ralph. Starting a New Church. Ventura: Regal, 2002. A must read book about similar methodologies to those mentioned in the various case studies in this chapter.  The author emphasizes what this church and planter have learned after planting multiple churches as a church.

16. New Life Christian Church in VA has three great resoureces
   Passion for Planting  click here
   Church Mobile Solutions click here
   Church marketing Solutions  click here

17. Ed Stetzer Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age

18 Church Multiplication and Training Center (CMTC).  This organization sponsors a Boot Camp for church planters. 3214 Summersworth Run, Ft. Wayne, IN 46804, Phone: 219-434-0090 Fax: 219-459-0597.