How To Plant A Church That Reaches People

How To Plant A Church That Reaches People

I’m wrapped that there is currently a resurgence of people around Australia asking how to plant a church that reaches people who don’t go to church. 

This is an incredibly exciting time with so many men and women both young and not so young wanting to explore new ways of doing church and to discover new ways that they can reach their communities!

The good news is that we will soon be putting on a one day workshop that is available to all prospective church planters, irrespective of movement affiliation, denomination or style. The only thing we want to see in common is a desire to reach our country with the love and good news of Jesus by pioneering new works.

Oscar Muriu who has planted hundreds of churches around the world shared some incredible wisdom at the recent A2A National Conference when he spoke on 9 important keys to effectively planting churches. One of these keys was to plant rabbit churches that can be birthed and multiplied quickly rather than rhino churches that are slow to birth and have a high mortality rate.

Legendary church planter Ralph Moore seeded a rabbit church planting movement in the US where over 2,300 rabbit churches have been planted with some of these rabbits growing to be rhino churches of over 2,000 in size. 

Oscar and Ralph aren’t saying that small rabbit churches are better, but they are advocates of planting simple rabbit churches that have the potential to become rhino churches.

The good news is that we will be running a 1 day Church Planting Workshop on Saturday 24 August at Our Church in Burleigh Heads, Queensland where we will be unpacking principles and practices that will help equip you to plant rabbit churches that have the potential to become rhino churches.

In the workshop we will be addressing a range of topics that include:

  • who you need in your core team
  • what the church you plant can look like
  • how to reach the community
  • how to put in place a disciple making strategy
  • how to develop an effective launch strategy
  • how to develop a financial model that will work
  • how to pray in preparation to plant
  • how you can get coaching to help ensure that your plant is successful.

 

If you are being stirred about the possibility of planting a church, make sure you book your place and come along. And definitely bring prospective team members to help them catch the vision and develop understanding of the steps involved in planting a new church.

Details for the workshop are:

I’m excited that I see many across Australia being stirred at present to consider the call to church plant. If that’s you, then this will be an invaluable workshop to help you understand key principles and work out the steps to take to embark on this exciting journey.

If you have questions or want further information, call me on 0419582781 or email me at timo@a2a.org.au

Tim O’Neill,
President, A2A (the Acts 2 Alliance)

ps – if you are interested in having a workshop in your region that will help you to discover how you can plant a church, send me an email and we’ll see what we can do.