New Church Planters

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New Church Planters

• Engaging Your Mission Field
• Nehemiah 1 2

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What do you believe God will do through you?

• What do you know about your mission field?
• What needs to be there?
• Who are the people and what do they need or want?

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Why do you want to plant a church?

• Have you talked to God about this? (Nehemiah
  14-11)
• Google the growth gurus, but get with God!

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How, When, Where, What???

• Hosting umbrella events
• Creating a culture of inviting
• Determining best time to launch
• Developing first phase timelines
• Networking and Connecting
• (Knowing the mission field helps you to plan a
  better launch for it) (Nehemiah 211-20)

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Umbrella Events

• What umbrella event will fit your mission field
  and fill the pews? (Nehemiahs was wall repair)
  Nehemiah 24,5)
• Have you engaged a team to plan this? (Nehemiah
  engaged the king and carried letters from the
  king) Nehemiah 27,8
• What community leader(s) have you engaged for
  buy-in?

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Creating an inviting church

• Do you love people enough to be bothered?
• What makes a person welcome and wanting to return
  to your plant? Would you want to return to this
  church? Nehemiah 217,18

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Determining the best time to launch

• Do you have a launch team? Vss 11-16
• Do you know the skill-sets of this team?
• Has a launch date been set? Vs 17,18
• Do you have a musician, choir, soloist, i.e.,
  etc.?
• What day, why, and how will the mission field
  know about it? (media and word of mouth) Nehemiah
  217-20

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Except the Lord builds a house those who build it
labor in vain. Psalm 1271

• Do you love people?
• (Nehemiah 110)
• Do you trust
• God? (Nehemiah 111)
• Are you Holy
• Ghost shy? (Nehemiah 220)

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Networking and Connecting Nehemiah 218-20

• Arrival Sensitive Departure Friendly
• Its not the crowd, its the Christ. Dr.
  Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

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A right time to plant and another to reap
Ecclesiastes 33 The Message Remix

• What is in your hands to plant? (Activity)
  Nehemiah 218

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Whats God got to do with it?

• Does Gods church have a mission or does Gods
  mission have a church?
• Nehemiah 220