Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Clover provides fully-functioning, beautiful, Flash websites for churches, para-churches, church plants, camps, youth groups, and other ministries. Stocked with tools specifically created for ministries, Clover provides the Church with an amazing platform to infuse its message into the world, doing what God has called it to do. Not only does Clover provide ministries with a clean, modern and intuitive platform to connect with their community, but also a revolutionary way of creating, editing, and updating their site. With Clover’s creation of “The Greenhouse”, any ministry can update their own website with little or no training. It’s so intuitive and revolutionary, you’ll have to demo everything yourself to believe it. www.cloversites.com
Exponential 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. Exponential is the synergy created by its alliance members.
Gold Sponsors
3DM is an organization that comes alongside church planters and established churches who want to learn the all important question of Mission and Discipleship: How do we do it? We help churches and leaders move beyond the theory and into the realm of practice. The senior leadership team of 3DM began this work with Missional Communities at a church in the UK back in the mid-1990's. Just a few years later they had become one of the largest churches in Europe. Today, 3DM and their team has seen the planting of more than a thousand Missional Communities in what has resulted in a world-wide movement.
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 in church-based contexts using the resources of BILD International.
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.
Association of Related Churches (ARC)
We are an association of relational churches working with church planters, church leaders, and churches in transition to provide support, guidance and resources to launch and grow life-giving churches.
Avant Ministries – A church-based team approach to international church planting. At Avant Ministries we love the church. We believe the church is what people do when the leave the building—it is the hands and feet of the gospel in their communities. We are seeking people who are willing to work together in community to invest in individuals and to build a church where one does not exist.
Baker Books has a vision for building up the body of Christ through books that are relevant, intelligent, and engaging. We publish titles for lay Christians on topics such as discipleship, spirituality, encouragement, relationships, marriage, parenting, and the intersection of Christianity and culture. We also publish books and ministry resources for pastors and church leaders, concentrating on topics such as preaching, worship, pastoral ministries, counseling, and leadership.
www.bakerpublishinggroup.com
B&H Publishing Group, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources, is a team of more than 100 mission-minded people with a passion for taking God’s Word to the world. B&H exists to provide intentional, Bible-centered content that positively impacts the hearts and minds of people, inspiring them to build a lifelong relationship with Jesus Christ.
From its original core of Bibles, textbooks, and reference titles, B&H has blossomed into a major publisher of Christian living, fiction, and academic releases as well as church supplies and extensive digital resources. The company's stable of best-selling authors includes Beth Moore, Henry Blackaby, Priscilla Shirer, Thom S. Rainer, Vicki Courtney, and Oliver North. Recent releases include New York Times No. 1 bestseller The Love Dare and the award-winning HCSB Study Bible. B&H is also the world’s leading trade publisher of Spanish language Bibles.
Casas por Cristo builds homes for families in need in Guatemala and México. In four days, volunteer teams transform an empty lot into a complete home.
Families receive a renewed trust in God’s love and faithfulness and 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, 13,000 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.
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 and revitalize churches. Through their BootCamp and On Mission Workshops future leaders, planters, pastors 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 equips and certifies coaches.
Church On Wheels is an organization dedicated to providing complete mobile church systems to new and evolving churches throughout North America. Consulting, design, assembly, delivery and training services to support your new church plant or multi-site project from start to finish. Solutions custom-built based on YOUR vision including everything from audio, video and lighting to all of your children’s ministry needs plus everything you need for storage and transportation. Visit us at www.ChurchOnWheels.com
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, Churchplanters.com is committed to providing tools for planters including conferences, coaching, networking and web-based resource.
CityTeam - CityTeam International was founded in 1957 to provide a variety of programs to serve people in extreme poverty and help them transform their lives, their families and communities. Since 1997, CityTeam has been caring for people around the corner and around the world in 43 countries by training, equipping, mentoring and coaching local leaders to care for those who are lost and in need. CityTeam has been blessed to train and equip over 600,000 new believers who have started over 18,000 new churches in the past six years. Ordinary people are becoming disciples that rapidly reproduce and Disciple Making Movements are impacting entire nations. Jerry Trousdale’s new book from CityTeam and Thomas Nelson Publishing, “Miraculous Movements”, shares 33 amazing true stories of how God is revealing himself to Muslims through visions, dreams, healings, etc. This book outlines the key scripture principles that help Christians reach out in love and share the gospel in their own community.
Cogun is a leader in church facility planning and construction, having designed and built over 670 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.
Compassion International believes that the Church is God’s chosen instrument to bring hope to a hurting world and to deliver justice to the poor and oppressed. For this reason, Compassion works exclusively in partnership with indigenous churches in the developing world to deliver a holistic child development program, enabling children the opportunity to experience God’s everlasting love and acceptance.
Through Compassion, your church can join a global network of churches working together to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Learn more at www.compassion.com/churches.
In Converge no one plants a church alone. Our commitment to assessing, coaching, and reducing risk gives us one of the best success rates around. Join with hundreds of forward minded people who seek to transform their communities with the Gospel of Christ.
ChurchNext is committed to developing leaders for the church that is and the church that could be. For more than 30 years, as part of the global ministry of CRM, we have been coaching, training, mentoring, and walking in the trenches with church planters, pastors, and ministry leaders of all types. Whether addressing issues of the heart, skill, or church development, our mosaic of specialized teams help leaders take the next steps to move their churches and ministries deeper into a lost and broken world. Together with you, we envision churches that bring the transforming life of Jesus to the world at their doorstep.
eFaith Learning provides new, more effective ways to share your message and reach more of your members through an innovative, web-based application. Now you can expand your reach, educate and connect with more of your audience, sharing your ministry worldwide. Share your message in more than 70 languages and provide your ministry with reliable, high-quality, online learning and web solutions. Our program provides one easy-to-use system that enhances the educational experience of your followers and meets the online demands of your organization.Connect with your audience, improve retention and maximize growth through eFaith Learning.
Generis is a consulting firm committed to cultivating generosity for funding of God-given vision of ministry. Generis has been in business since 1989. During that time, their team has had the privilege of serving over 2,000 churches and ministry organizations while unleashing more than $5 billion in ministry funding. More than just consultants, they are Kingdom-minded believers who serve as partners, guides and friends. Whether the need is everyday generosity related to operating budget, opportunity generosity for buildings or special projects or legacy generosity for charitable gift planning, their goal is to help find the spark of generosity in your ministry and help you fan it into full flame.
G.O. Ministries seeks to empower passionate, local leaders serving inside their own cultures to Redeem people, Renew communities and Restore Creation by developing dynamic international, mutually transformational Partnerships. G.O. Ministries currently partners North American churches and businesses with churches in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mongolia, Colombia, and urban Louisville, KY. www.go-ministries.org
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.
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 10 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 80 years.
Lancaster Bible College has been preparing and equipping Christ-followers for ministry for nearly 80 years. LBC is partnering with Spanish River Church (Boca Raton, FL), which has planted more than 300 churches worldwide in the past 40 years, to offer church planters a Master’s-level program—in Pennsylvania or Florida—specifically designed to prepare them for their calling. LBC is now enrolling Fall 2012 cohort for its Master of Arts in Ministry, Church Planting Concentration.
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.
Lifetree Café: The new, truly relational, outreach ministry.
Lifetree Café is a time and place where people gather to hear inspiring stories and engage in conversation on a different topic every week. It's the proven ministry that reaches the unreached with the love of Christ in a fresh new way.
This hour-long interactive experience features real people's real stories on film, guided conversation, biblical insights, and time to build relationships. Lifetree Café tackles the topics people struggle with in everyday life and participants experience God in a fresh new way.
You may know LifeWay as a retail store. Or perhaps we provide your church with quarterly Sunday School materials, Christian magazines, or other resources. The book on your nightstand may be published by us. You may even worship in a church that LifeWay helped design. The fact is we are one of the world’s largest providers of Christian products and services. This was not our original goal. But when we see a need, we try to provide a biblical solution for it. And the world has many needs. How can we help you?
The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board (MMBB)
MMBB offers investment, retirement and insurance benefits specifically designed for those who serve faith-based organizations, both ordained and lay. We’re a non-profit Christian organization serving the church and faith-based community for over 100 years. It’s one important reason why more than 20,000 people of faith entrust us with their financial futures. Real planning. Real solutions. That's our calling. Visit our booth or contact Tom Huber at or 212-870-8007 for more information.
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 160 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.
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.
NCM Fathom – Theater Church
Plant your church. Create momentum. Grow your congregation. Extend your missionary reach.
Share your message and inspirations in a venue that’s culturally relevant; where people live, work, and play. Everyone knows where their local theater is. Now is your opportunity to let them know where their local Theater Church is.
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
Join the movement of churches who are inspiring the unchurched.
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.
Since 1983, New Missions has served in Haiti developing Christian leaders by "changing the life of a child." Currently, over 11,000 students attend our 25 elementary schools and a High School in Haiti. We are a full-service Christian mission. We build, staff, fund, and run our operations overseas. The focus is making disciples, preaching the gospel, and meeting the spiritual, physical, and intellectual needs of the poorest of the poor. You can partner with New Missions by hosting a Christmas Shoebox Drive at your church.
NewThing (newthing.org) is a mission of Community Christian Church (communitychristian.org
We partner with Southern Baptists to plant churches in the US and Canada. We have recently changed our structure radically to focus even more on church planting and how we can take better care of our planters. We want to help start churches everywhere in North America, but especially in our cities, where 83 percent of our population lives. To learn more about our Send North America church planting strategy, visit www.namb.net and click on Send North America.
Orchard Group plants growing and reproducing churches in New York and the Northeast and beyond. Thanks to the partnership of church planting churches around the country, church planters receive the resources, training, coaching, services and oversight they need to see new churches flourish. Twenty-three churches started since 2000 are reaching over 10,000 combined. In the past few years, Orchard Group has begun to expand from New York City to other cities across the United States and into Western Europe.
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!
Imagine the joy filled experience of being free from the administrative crush and being able to focus on what God called you to do in the first place... develop a launch team, network in the community, and evangelize the lost. Passion for Planting was founded by church planters to help church planters stay focused on people. For more check out check out www.church-planting.net.
We believe that God is doing a fresh thing in church planting. We are committed to planting movements of gospel-centered churches committed to making disciples. Our vision and mission is simple we envision 100 church planting hubs planting 100 churches each. Our mission is to start movements by catalyzing these hubs and equipping them to multiply. We believe that no church, church plant, pastor, or church planter should ever do it alone.
Together is the kingdom way.
In 1994, we set out to make portable church® more efficient. Today, we are redefining what’s possible for portable churches worldwide. We are a collective of Designers, Consultants, Project Managers, Producers, Builders and Experts. Together, we create customized solutions for churches & ministries that are mobile. With solutions for creative portable environments, worship experiences, signage, children’s ministry, technology and even transportation, we help create sustainable, reproducible & generational models of efficiencies for the portable church®. We exist to help portable churches discover what’s possible in a portable environment.
Stadia Brings People and Churches Together to Transform Lives and Communities Through Church Planting. Together with our NETWORKS, we plant new churches that have the greatest potential for sustainability by sharing resources, best-practices and support. Together with our PLANTERS, we create the healthiest church-planting environment possible by providing the best planter and spousal care, coaching and project management. Together with our DONORS, we invest in life transformation by funding new churches with adequate resources to transform their community. Plant, create and invest with Stadia.
Standard Publishing provides true-to-the-Bible resources that inspire, educate, and motivate Christians to a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
Stickersandmore.com was founded in 1995 on a simple principle & goal - to be a leader not a follower in the custom imprinting of T-shirts, Stickers, Banners, Graphic Design & More. By providing our clients large and small with the integrity, customer service and quality they expect and deserve. Sixteen years later our goal remains the same
The City helps everyone in your church stay engaged in daily life and ministry. It's a group-oriented social network that's all about helping your church build deeper community and extend the love of Christ to the world. The City is helping people in hundreds of churches grow deeper in community and stay engaged in the kind of whole-life ministry that shines as a light in the darkness.
Finally . . . an urban network for all of us! The Rebuild Initiative is a network that multiplies urban leaders with the gospel, and we stand at the epicenter of the urban tsunami. Rebuild provides roundtables for urban leaders; assessments, coaching, and partners and support for urban church planters; and Imprint, an urban, church-based discipling process. Reaching a city? Looking for an urban internship? Planting an urban church? Finally, Rebuild can help you seize the day! www.therebuildinitiative.org
The Upstream Collective is an informal collection of churches that are committed to thinking and acting like missionaries. Led by missionaries, church planters, pastors, and expatriates, Upstream seeks to bridge the gap between the missional church and God's activity among the peoples of the world. Through training workshops, vision trips, and education resources, they equip churches for missionary engagement at home and abroad. Upstream invites you to contribute to The Mission Book, a new collaborative project that explores lessons from the mission field.
Vision360 is an emerging global movement of leaders in business, education, governance, agriculture, civil society and the arts that comes together around the central question of what it looks like for Christ-followers to see transformation happen in their city. It always leads to the mobilization of Christ-followers in serving their city and the multiplication of churches. Our Vision, simply stated, is "Collaborate To Accelerate The Global Movement Of Jesus". And specifically, our Mission is to; "Connect and empower transformational church multiplication communities in 500 global cities by 2025".
For nearly 20 years, the WCA has developed a respected history of excellence and innovation in serving local churches and their leaders. In that time, the WCA has inspired and trained more than one million church leaders and has created and distributed millions of church resources into tens of thousands of churches representing more than 90 denominations. With more than 8,000 Member Churches in 35 countries, WCA leadership training events are now held in more than 268 cities in 75 countries each year.
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working
with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their
full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. Your church
can play a significant role in World Vision's work around the world. You
can be a leader in helping children and families overcome adversities and
realize their God-given potential. World Vision’s more than 60 years of
experience working among the poor and oppressed makes us an ideal partner
to help your congregation change the lives of those in poverty and
experience transformation within your own church. Our programs enable
churches of any size, style, and budget to get involved globally. Here are
just some of the ways you can start doing that today:
· Relational ministry through child sponsorship
· Life-changing pastor vision trips
· Global community partnerships
· Powerful, interactive experiences & service projects
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.
Silver Sponsors
At Church in a Box™ Solutions, we gladly 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 with or without a custom consultation and are designed with your budget in mind. We make your vision affordable, efficient and appealing.
Elexio - Integrated technology for the Church. Website-VIBE, database-FUSION, portal-PULSE, check-in-TOUCH, mobile app-WAVE and amazing custom DESIGN for your unique ministry and calling.
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.
Great Commission Ministries (GCM) partners with local churches to provide trained and funded church planters and missionaries in their own context. Founded in 1989, our experienced staff teach a comprehensive fundraising strategy, offer health insurance and 401k benefits, and allow churches to mobilize workers for the Great Commission. We specialize in campus churches and missional church plants, but partner across the globe with a variety of ministries.
Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institution—a think tank—whose mission is to formulate and promote public policy solutions based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
Path 1 is a movement within The United Methodist Church to find and train 1,000 church planters to start 650 new churches in the United States by the end of 2012. Our mission-driven, passionate, and diverse team of church planting practitioners provide best practice research and consultation to support effective church planting across the United States. If you’re looking for a place to explore a Wesleyan theological approach to church planting, check us out! We are looking for men and women who are open to diverse viewpoints, racial-ethnic planting opportunities, and a multitude of church planting strategies.
StartChurch partners with church planters to make sure their legal foundation is set up right. We ensure that churches and ministries have the strongest legal protection possible. We help with the legal side of church planting, from filling out legal paperwork (Articles of Incorporation, 501(c)(3), etc.) to helping you create the Policies and Procedures that help bring your vision to pass.
Truth Advertising is the industry leader in custom direct mail postcard marketing. With over 20 years in the direct mail marketing arena, they have helped thousands of churches grow to their God given potential through solo direct mail. With a full range of marketing services including: Direct Mail, Website Design, and Print Media, Truth Advertising can help you reach more un-churched people for less money and ultimately be found good stewards of the resources God has entrusted to us all.
Bronze Sponsors
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.
Aplos Software - Aplos Software is an online fund accounting software created specifically for non profit organizations. Aplos was created with the non-volunteer in mind by Tim Goetz (our founder) who has founded 2 non-profits, and is a certified CPA. We are simple, efficient, flexible, and best of all affordable.
"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"
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