Casting Vision and Avoiding Mission Drift
Church plants often lose sight of their direction, vision and resulted in mission drift in several different ways. Planters may struggle with pressure from "churched" people to stray away from the mission; discerning between "good ideas" and mission critical ideas; making decisions consistent with mission; defining priorities for growth; and balancing evangelism and discipleship.
Five Key Considerations to Avoid Mission Drift
1. ClarityThe concept of "drift" implies leaving a clearly defined and understood standard. Planters mistakenly assume their expectations for the rest of the team and body are as clear and compelling in their minds that they are in the planter’s mind.
2. Core ValuesMost planters have a strong sense of mission and ...
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Team Development and Volunteer Mobilization
Mobilizing volunteers and building teams are major challenges, according to church planters. Mobilizing volunteers is an issue regardless of the size of the launch team. Mobilizing volunteers and building teams expands the new church impact in a community.
Five Key Considerations in Launch Team Development and Mobilizing Volunteers
1. Start with a healthy coreA healthy core group is key to a viable church plant.
2. Plant with a teamWhen a planter and family move into a community without team members, the risk factors increase. "Parachute Plants" where the planter arrives in a city with few existing relationships, hinder team building and volunteer mobilization.
3. Focus on relationshipsMost planters are good at relationship building. ...
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The Vision of Acts 29:
Rigidly committed to remain a church planting network, the vision of Acts 29 is to be worshippers of God who seek to influence as many people as possible to become worshippers.
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