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The Exponential Network serves existing collaborative networks and churches, organizations, and church planters seeking to get involved in collaborative networks. It is an alliance of like-minded organizations committed to starting new churches through collaborative networks. The Exponential Network is the synergy created by its alliance members.
Anderson University (College of Christian Studies)
The College of Christian Studies at Anderson University (Anderson, SC) offers academic excellence in a program that emphasizes practical ministry training for a new generation of Kingdom leaders.
Undergraduate majors in Christian Theology and Christian Ministry and a graduate program in Ministry enable students to pursue just the right type of practical training to achieve their goals—whether that includes seminary, ministry work, or just a better grasp of Biblical truth.
Learn more about the College of Christian Studies at www.auministry.com
Antioch School of Church Planting and Leadership
The vision of the Antioch School is to support the tremendous spontaneous expansion of the Church in the twenty-first century through theological education done in the context of church ministry, which maintains high levels of achievement in character, skills, and knowledge.
The mission of the Antioch School is to support church-based theological education by providing academic degree programs utilizing in-service leadership development for ministry in church-based contexts.
Casas por Cristo builds homes for families in need in Juárez and Acuña, México. In four days, volunteer teams transform an empty lot into a complete home.
Families served receive a renewed trust in God’s love and faithfulness as volunteers are awakened to the realities of poverty and the importance of sharing
God’s love through serving others.
Catalyst is all about shaping leaders in the Church, presenting the next big ideas, practices and content. Catalyst exists to ignite passion for Christ and develop leadership potential in the Next Generation, equipping them to engage and impact their world. Every year, 12,000 next generation leaders converge on Atlanta in October for the Catalyst Conference, the leadership experience of the year. But Catalyst is more than a conference- it purposes to serve as a leadership filter, continually providing relevant training, innovative events, and cutting edge resources for leaders in the Church.
At church in a box® solutions, we think inside the box. We are the only company offering fully integrated, turn-key solutions for your portable church with prices starting at $14,997. These solutions, created by the experts at Portable Church® Industries, are designed to be volunteer-friendly and designed to equip you for excellence. Our solutions are available pre-fabricated or with a custom consultation. Our solution are designed with your budget in mind. We make your vision affordable, efficient and appealing. We know your church is about the people, not the stuff. Let us concentrate on the stuff, so you can concentrate on the people. Stop by our booth today for more information.
Church Marketing Solutions is a leading provider of high-quality church marketing services at non-profit prices. They are passionate about church planting and providing unmatched service to church planters.
Church Multiplication Training Center
The Church Multiplication Training Center is a proven resource used by denominations and networks to train leaders who plant churches. Through their BootCamp system, future leaders, planters and support team members learn everything from developing core values to practical hints on developing a contextual strategic plan, whether conventional or organic, that will be effective for multiplying disciples and churches. The CMTC also has a track for equipping and certifying church planting coaches.
In business for over 35 years, Church on Wheels specializes in portable staging, seating, sound and lighting equipment, and all types of support and transportation equipment for mobile churches. They have built on our business by providing our customers what they need, offering a large selection of portable stage, seating, backdrops, folding tables, skirting and backdrops, lecterns, and much more.
Simply put, Church Plant Media builds awesome websites for churches, church plants, and church planting organizations. Well renown for great, textured designs, that are unbelievably easy to update with fantastic, unlimited support; Church Plant Media exists to expand the reach of the Gospel via the Internet. We are first and foremost a Gospel company, and second, a web design company. Since the Gospel is the heartbeat of everything we do, we view our websites (including this one) as a partnership in the Gospel. To follow all of our latest updates, please visit: http://twitter.com/myCPM
A ministry designed to give church planters permission to "do what it takes." So often we need encouragement and permission to color outside the lines. Once we do so we discover that our willingness to take risks makes all the difference. ChurchPlanters.com is committed to developing resources that dare you to cross over the line in exercising a bold faith. Launched in 2005 by David Putman and Shawn Lovejoy, Churchplanters.com is committed to providing tools for planters including conferences, coaching, networking and web-based resource.
Church Planting Group of the North American Mission Borad
The Church Planting Group of the North American Mission Board partners with Southern Baptists to start more than 4 churches every day across the US and Canada. The group assists partners by providing a team of strategists and missionaries throughout the continent and by creating world class church planting resources. These resources are available without charge through our website, www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net. Come visit the site today and sign up for our bi-weekly e-magazine The Planters Update at www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net/update.
Cogun is a leader in church design and development, having designed and built over 650 church facilities since 1970. Their commitment to ministry enhancement, financial responsibility and excellence in design leads to church buildings that are fundable, technically superb and allow for immeasurable ministry opportunities.
Connecting missional leaders. Igniting missional churches. Transforming cities with the gospel of Jesus.
CPAC: Church Planting Assessment Center
CPAC is designed to help an individual or couple discern their calling to church planting by affirming their strengths and identifying weaknesses. Church planting assessment integrates several lenses of evaluation to help a couple or individual discover as much about healthy placement in church planting as possible. The assessment is an intensive multi-day experience which combines interviews, interactive exercises, individual and group presentations, and written evaluations by peers, assessors, and the candidates themselves. Much like the early months of a church plant, CPAC tests and refines the resolve of each candidate and her/his spouse.
CRM Empowering Leaders is an international missions organization dedicated to the transformation and growth of the Church that is and the Church that can be. Our community of over 400 staff support, sponsor, resource, and work alongside of church leaders and church planters in the US and around the world. Specifically we offer church planting and revitalization resources, coaching and assessment, and access to a global network of missional leaders and pioneers.
Good News Publishers is a not-for-profit Christian ministry and exists solely for the purpose of proclaiming the gospel through publishing and all other means in order, by God's grace;
1. to bring men, women and children to Christ as their Lord and Savior;
2. to help individual Christians and the church grow in knowledge and understanding of the Christian life;
3. to bear witness to God's Truth, Beauty and Holiness, and to the Lordship of Christ in every area of life; and
4. to glorify our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in every way.
Financial Peace University is a life-changing program that teaches you how to make the right decisions with your money. You’ll be empowered with the practical skills and confidence needed to achieve your financial goals and experience true financial peace!
Generis is a consulting firm whose mission is to provide life-changing stewardship and fundraising counsel to churches and other faith-based organizations. Since 1989, our consultants have helped over 1,800 clients raise more than $3.5 billion toward their ministry objectives. Our strategists partner with church staff and leadership to enact powerful giving strategies within the unique context and culture of each organization.
G.O. Ministries, Inc. is a Christian non-profit organization dedicated to the ministry of short-term missions and the development of global partnerships of ministry. Our goal is to recruit, equip and coordinate people for short-term mission adventures that will mutually challenge each participant and support the inspiring efforts of National Christian leaders abroad.
Group Imaging is a resource for all things graphical for churches. Their goal is to make you look good. They provide printing for banners, portable campus directional signage, stage backdrops, lobby kiosk setups, custom full color tablecloths, street corner flags, A frame sandwich boards. Group Imaging offers printing on both traditional banner vinyl as well as on color rich cloth printing. Now you can also have your direct mail postcard campaigns designed, printed and mailed through Group Imaging. Why not send an invitation to your closest 20,000 neighbors with a direct mail campaign next month?
Ignite Church Planting: Chicagoland
Ignite Church Planting: Chicagoland is a church-planting ministry located in one of America's greatest population centers. NW Indiana and the Chicagoland portion of NE Illinois is home to over 11 million people. It is estimated that over 60% of Chicagoland population is unchurched. Ignite, formerly know as CDEA, has been planting churches across Chicagoland for over 100 years.
As an extension of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, InterVarsity Press serves those in the university, the church and the world by publishing resources that equip and encourage people to follow Jesus as Savior and Lord in all of Life.
Lead Like Jesus is not called to run ministries or businesses or start churches, we are called to train the leaders who do so that God is glorified, people are served, and organizations are more effective in impacting the world for the Kingdom of God. We imagine a world in which leaders serve rather than rule, a world in which they give rather than take. We imagine leaders who seek to produce results from service and sacrifice rather than from power and position. Lead Like Jesus exists to help all people learn and model the leadership principles that Jesus lived.
Since 1984, Leadership Network has fostered church innovation and growth through strategies, programs, tools and resources that are consistent with our far-reaching mission: to identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact. Of the estimated 350,000 churches in North America, only a relatively small number play a significant role in introducing innovations to the Church at large. Leadership Network's "DNA" is to work directly with those few pioneers who are testing and implementing the new ideas that will drive the Church in the future.
If there were one common trait of small group participants, it would be that they are all seeking something—new friends, a closer walk with God, a spiritual experience that’s more real than “religious.” Well, LifeWay Small Groups is for you. With a variety of discovery-based resources and many other Bible studies that can be used in any small-group setting, LifeWay can help you find whatever your group is seeking.
Lifetree Café. It’s a place and a time. It’s a cozy environment where your community gathers for an intriguing hour of stories and conversation to feed the soul.
Lifetree Cafés all over the country simultaneously shape the national conversation each week. You can bring Christ’s light to the conversation in your town, with your own Lifetree location. Whether you use Lifetree as the seed to start a new church or as a new mission-focused ministry for an existing church, Lifetree Café will capture the imagination and conversation in your community.
Plant your own Lifetree Café—and become the talk of the town.
Few Christian liberal arts colleges have a longer or richer tradition that Milligan College. For more than 140 years, the college has integrated academic excellence with a Christian worldview and a mission to educate men and women as Christian servant-leaders. Consistently recognized as one of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report, Milligan offers more than 25 majors and several master's degrees. To learn more, visit www.milligan.edu.
MissionInsite provides “one click” instant access to always current community demographic information. As the leading provider of web based demographic discovery tools, MissionInsite currently serves more than 110 regional and national clients and thousands of local churches. Understanding your ministry area has never been easier. MissionInsite leaders bring over 75 years of experience in the fields of church development, strategic planning and mission context analysis. With a shared passion for the church and its faithful missional engagement of North American culture, MissionInsite is committed to innovation in the creation of next generation ministry planning resources.
NCM Fathom – Theatre Church
Create momentum. Build your plan. Grow your congregation. Focus on your mission.
Create a place for your church to worship that attracts people, the churched and un-churched alike, to your church. Theatres offer churches a culturally relevant means to reach younger generations by telling biblical stories on the big screen.
Theatre Church is a low risk, high impact way to connect with the community that is located in the middle of the marketplace. Plus, there is no better way to present your churches message – on the big screen!
- Smart financial move
- Low-risk, high-value growth strategy
- Familiar and inviting
Go Beyond Cinema. Fathom Theatre Church.
Call 877-91-FATHOM or visit www.fathomtheatrechurch.com for more information.
NavPress' mission is to advance The Navigators’ calling by publishing life-transforming materials. We are committed to serving people and churches by facilitating and motivating spiritual growth through products that are biblically rooted, culturally relevant, and practical.
NewThing is a mission of Community Christian Church with a vision to be a catalyst for a movement of reproducing churches. Today, COMMUNITY reaches over 5,000 people every weekend across soon to be eleven locations in the
North American Christian Convention
Orchard Group exists to plant growing and reproducing churches in New York and the Northeastern United States. They identify dynamic locations for new churches in New York City and the broader Northeast, hire staff, and provide start-up funds to get the new church underway. Their organization provides 100% of staff salaries in the first year of the new church, with the church picking up increasingly larger portions of salaries from year two through self-supporting at the end of year three or year four.
Outreach, Inc. is the proven leader for outreach training, tools and resources. Thousands of America's most outreach-focused churches have partnered with us to invite over 100 million households to church. Visit www.churchplants.com for outreach solutions to launch and grow your new church!
Leading provider of church planting support services including marketing, equipment, and launch plan management. Passion for Planting was founded by church planters for church planters. Our mission is to keep church planters focused on people by managing the other details for them.
The Payroll Source is a leading national company offering payroll services to all types of businesses including churches and all related ministries. It’s a fact that the tax laws affecting ministers and church organizations are among the most complicated and difficult to interpret.
With these laws seemingly changing every day, the last thing your ministry needs to be worried about is if its payroll is being handled properly.
We can help! Our ministry-payroll specialists will make sure your ministry stays in compliance with the tax laws at all times. The Payroll Source keeps up with all your payroll needs so you can focus on the more satisfying parts of serving the Lord. The Payroll Source will work with your ministry, no matter how small, saving you time and money on your payroll and all related task all at a price that is the lowest in the industry. We guarantee it.
"The Idea Camp is a collaborative movement of idea-makers who facilitate hybrid conferences and develop resources for people who desire to move ideas toward implementation. Facilitated by a growing collective of innovative thinkers and practitioners from numerous disciplines, participants gather around topics of interest to encourage and inspire one another, share practical wisdom from the field, and develop intentional networks for idea-making."
The RightNow Campaign believes that the mission of the church matters! We are a movement of 20 & 30 something’s trading in the pursuit of the American Dream for a world that desperately needs Christ. We are hungry for transformation now which is why we work tirelessly to help our generation discover their passions and gifts to plug them into actual opportunities of missional service.
Shapevine is an online café where titles and renown are checked at the door for the purpose of engendering an authentic learning community, a one-stop shop for thinkers and learners to share resources and tools as well as emerging conversation and paradigms. Stop in for a live video café meeting, to post and blog with others, or to draw from the continual thought stream within the Shapevine network.
Stadia seeks to be the leading partner with church planting networks across North America. Stadia brings energy, experience and expertise to church planting churches and church planting networks by matching the needs of new churches with proven professional organizations - to provide assessment, training, coaching, mentoring and other services. Thanks to the generous grants provided by sister ministry Church Development Fund, Stadia is also able to provide financial assistance to some networks.
Standard Publishing provides true-to-the-Bible resources that inspire, educate, and motivate Christians to a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
Vision360 is passionate and committed to starting a dynamic and multi-denominational church planting movement. Our mission is to saturate influential and rapidly-growing cities around the world with impacting and reproducing churches. This will not be an easy task but it is a mission that is absolutely necessary. It will require sacrifice, risk and teamwork...and we can't do it alone.
Since 1992, the Willow Creek Association has been linking like-minded, action-oriented churches with each other and with strategic vision, training, and resources. The WCA is a not-for profit ministry with more than 11,000 Member Churches from 90 denominations and 45 countries representing a wide variety of sizes, denominations and backgrounds. As they pursue their own unique, God-given vision for ministry in their community, Member Churches confirm a shared commitment to Christ and a passion for reaching lost people
Zondervan is an international Christian communications company with a heart for helping people find and follow Jesus Christ by inspiring them with relevant biblical and spiritual resources. This is done through their bestselling, award-winning, and life-changing products. Zondervan leads the way in Bible and book publishing, and they continue to expand their resource offering. With 75 years of service, they are proud of the impact these resources have on the lives of people.
ChurchSmart Resources is a publishing company and training organization focused on church planting, church health and leadership development. They are committed to producing excellent products at affordable prices to help church leaders accomplish effective ministry in the areas of Church planting, Church growth, Church renewal and Leadership development.
CoachNet is a leading provider of training, coaching and online resources for an entire generation of church planters, parent churches and denominational/movement leaders. CoachNet's mission is to empower leaders to start, grow and multiply healthy churches.
Grace Global Network is a ministry dedicated to locating, training, connecting, resourcing, and multiplying healthy movements of new church planting around the world. By connecting innovative leaders with other innovative leaders and helping church planters adopt effective thought processes, GGN is working to build a network of synergistic, evangelical church planting movements that will partner with others to multiply one million plus churches around the globe.
ELI: Emerging Leadership Initiative
ELI is mobilizing an expanding network of emerging leaders who will start and multiply new church out of the culture. ELI provides leaders with an online pre-assessment tool, residency and non-residency based training programs and collaborative resourcing.
InFocus, Inc. is a Christian, non-profit organization dedicated to empowering denominational networks, mission agencies, local churches, church planters and individual business leaders to reach their full, God-given potential. Through training, coaching and resourcing, InFocus helps define "what's next" for them and their organization.
MediaShout presentation software has been designed to help your church, youth group, Sunday School class, missions team, worship team or Christian organization to share life's most important message as effectively as possible. Today we are surrounded by hundreds of media media messages every day, yet very few penetrate our minds and go straight to our heart. Media Shout wants to make sure the most important message is communicated in a way that gets through.
Mosaix is a relational network of local church pastors and planters, researchers, educators and ministry leaders alike that exists to catalyze the growing movement toward multi-ethnic/economically diverse churches throughout North America and beyond by casting vision, connecting individuals of like-mind, conferencing and coaching. Believing that healthy multi-ethnic churches must be established on sound theology, for the sake of the gospel, Mosaix promotes a vision of 20% diversity in 20% of churches throughout the United States by the year 2020. With this in mind, Mosaix promotes understanding and application of seven core commitments as fundamental to building a healthy multi-ethnic church: Embrace Dependence, Take Intentional Steps, Empower Diverse leaders, Develop Cross-cultural Relationships, Pursue Cross-cultural Competence, Promote a Spirit of Inclusion, Mobilize for Impact. Founded in 2004 by Mark DeYmaz and George Yancey, the network is being relaunched this year at Exponential in cooperation with Erwin McManus and Mosaic Alliance.
Restore – is Stadia’s Research and Development training network. We are committed to helping leaders “make disciples.” We provide training, coaching, and internships. We have a limited number of internship openings for the fall of 2010 and spring of 2011 for young leaders seeking to develop “missional communities,” focused on a missional-incarnational living model, as part of the Harpeth Community Church (harpethcc.com), a suburb of Nashville. Formerly called “Church Coaching Solutions”(www.church-coaching.com), Restore is led by Dr. Bob Harrington (Director of Networks for Stadia).
Truth in Advertising is a division of a for-profit publishing enterprise. They believe that God has already paid them, so they want to give back more of their time, talents, and treasure to advance God's Kingdom. They do this by leveraging some of their for-profit resources to serve a greater not for profit purpose - you and your church. Their mission is to help you reach more unchurched people for less money and ultimately be found good stewards of what God has entrusted to us.
Althouse, Jaffe and Associates
Althouse, Jaffe & Associates, a full-service architectural firm, has faithfully served hundreds of churches for the last twenty years. Our unique master planning and design process involves a group design workshop that allows leaders to take an active role in the design of a church plant facility. We recognize that for some this will mean a new facility design and for others, the renovation of an existing building in the heart of a community. We collaborate with the church leadership to capture vision, ideas and dreams and translate them into usable space for ministry. Please contact us for a free initial consultation.
Asbury Seminary, a community called, is a multi-denominational graduate school of theology committed to teaching the unchanging truth of historic Wesleyan Christianity through the most dynamic means available. Degrees include: Master of Arts, Master of Divinity, Master of Theology, Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Philosophy. Students can earn one-half of a Master of Arts or two-thirds of the Master of Divinity online. Enrollment on Kentucky, Florida and Virtual campuses exceeds 1,600 men and women representing 86 denominations and 42 countries. For more information, please visit asburyseminary.edu.
Founded in 1892, Avant Ministries is a missionary agency that recruits, equips, sends, supports and serves missionaries in more than twenty countries globally. The mission of Avant is, “to glorify God by helping others enjoy His presence through planting and developing new churches in unreached areas of the world.” The goal of Avant is to produce biblical, mature, reproducing churches in as short a time as possible, trusting God to achieve amazing results beyond imagination.
B&H Publishing Group is known for books written by Beth Moore (Praying God’s Word), Ed Stetzer (Lost & Found), Thom S. Rainer (Simple Church), William A. Dembski (The End of Christianity), Henry Blackaby (Experiencing God), Oliver North (American Heroes), Chuck Norris (Black Belt Patriotism), and Vicki Courtney (TeenVirtue) as well as the New York Times #1 best seller The Love Dare by Stephen and Alex Kendrick. The company also developed the popular HCSB™ translation of Scripture and its related products, including The Apologetics Study Bible, and is a leading producer of church supplies and Spanish Bibles.
Five Talent Software is a Christian owned software and technology company that exists to further the kingdom of God. We believe that God has provided all individuals and organizations with their own unique gifts and talents that combined can have a more positive impact on the community. Five Talent’s offerings include comprehensive church management software (Five Talent Church), affordable website solutions, reliable hosting services, and convenient and trustworthy IT consulting. These solutions help churches manage their resources in a more efficient and productive way, while facilitating greater focus on what is really important – outreach and discipleship. Together we can outreach more effectively, disciple more meaningfully, and build relationships that will last an eternity!
Fuller Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry Program
Fire for your ministry - Oxygen for your soul. These words capture the core vision of the Fuller DMin. This program provides a catalytic environment where you can rekindle your ministry with new theological insights, refresh your heart, reignite your call and energize your ministry with practical innovative skills in the context of evangelical convictions. We want you to experience a new sense of ministry fire, and see new life breathed into your soul.
Great Commission Ministries (GCM) mobilizes missionaries to work in their local churches for the purpose of evangelism, discipleship and church planting. We train, employ and serve missionaries as they raise a team of supporters for their ministry.
IMB's mission is to make disciples of all peoples in fulfillment of the Great Commission
Thousands of people groups - 1.6 billion people - still live with little or no access to the Gospel.
IMB is an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination, with more than 40,000 churches whose membership totals nearly 16 million.
Nexus is a Church Planting and Leader Care ministry which helps connect Church Planters, leaders of established churches, and young emerging leaders with Leader Care networks.
"The River Conference is a multiplying network of missional churches. Through kingdom minded partnerships and initiatives, we are pioneering new ways to equip, support, and send emerging leaders into the world of strategic church planting. River Churches have a heart for justice, a global worldview, and a commitment to mission and incarnational community. For more information check us out online at www.theriverconference.org"
Do you feel that you are called to middle of nowhere? Are you in a rural area, small town, medium sized blue collar community, or a hard to reach area where the soil is rock hard? Are resources tough, staff non-existent, leadership sparse, and vision running on empty? Are you encouraged and inspired by conferences and resources but leave with a sense that what you learned is not quite perfectly fitting the place where you have been called?
The STICKS is a group of like-minded pastors, leaders, and laypeople who have created a community for sharing, learning, encouragement and inspiration. From on-line resources that we are developing to regional gatherings in a conference and break-out format to podcasts, blogs and other training events, the STICKS brings those who are called to the middle of nowhere together. We share how to do great things for God with little in the way of resources. If you feel left out of the conversation, come on over, pull up a bail of straw to the campfire ring and let's get down to it. We desire to be a place where: "Relevance Meets Revival!" Check us out: www.thesticks.tv
World Help exists to fulfill the Great Commission and the Great Commandment through partnering, training, helping and serving, especially in the unreached areas of the world. World Help was born out of a sincere desire to help those in need...not only spiritually, but physically. Founded in 1991 as a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian organization, World Help began providing God's Word to the spiritually starved nations of Eastern Europe. Today, World Help has touched over 60 countries through four pillars of ministry: Child Advocacy, Humanitarian Aid, Bible Distribution, and Church Planting. In a world of over 6 billion people, the needs are overwhelming. Hunger, war, famine, disease, and natural disaster create a worldwide climate of suffering that most of us cannot begin to comprehend. Our hearts are moved with compassion, but what can one person do? As citizens of the most blessed nation on earth today, we must find a way to do something. Perhaps we can help if we look beyond the crushing physical need and work to solve the real problem our world faces. World Help was born out of a desire to help those in need...not only spiritually, but physically.
Together, we can make a difference! Visit the link above to find out how you can get involved today.
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