Church Planting 201
What we doChurch leadership training to help you develop staff and lay leaders.
Improve how you lead and raise up healthy leaders
Young churches face many unique challenges. One of the most difficult is the development of staff and lay leaders.
Church Planting 201 is two days of coaching designed for churches that are 1-2 years of age. Led by a team of experienced and successful church planters, this training provides practical and applicable ideas for self-leadership, growing the capacity of your leaders and developing a healthy church elder board. This training will help you improve the way you lead and raise up an army of leaders around you.
You will learn how to:
• Recruit and equip leaders in your church
• Stay healthy in the midst of the ministry push
• Develop a strong leadership/elder board
• Multiply vision/mission carriers within your church
You will also have the opportunity to meet and build relationships with other church planters who are on the same journey.
Who should attend?
• Pastors who desire to understand the world of church planting
• Church planters who desire to sharpen their skills
• Coaches that want to broaden their coaching spectrum
• Pastors looking to restart a church and build a new foundation
See individual training for cost and schedule.
Upcoming Church Planting 201 training
What church planters are saying about Converge
Dating back to shepherds on the Middle Eastern plains (Genesis 29:2–3), feeding, protecting and growing a flock works best when we coordinate and collaborate with others. I’m grateful for and better because of fellow Converge leaders and churches.
Great videos. Short, sweet and challenging. Looking forward to growing together as a board using this tool to help us be a unified team moving in God’s direction for his people.
This residency has provided room for me to recruit, train, organize and lead a team toward preparing to plant a church.
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