Church Planting Australia
By Reach Australia
Church Planting AustraliaMay 09, 2022
28. Teams in Church Plants
How do you run teams in church plants?
- Don't have a 1,000 tiny teams
- Make sure you have job descriptions
- Identify leaders
- Keep recruiting
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27. Pre-Launch Meetings
What do you need to cover and how do you cover it in your pre-launch meetings?
26. From Three Months Out To Launch
What are the things you need to do from 3 months away from launch to soft launch to hard launch? What you need to keep in mind when allocating responsibility.
25. Three More Things...
The Richard Johnson Rule of Church Planting - here's 3 final tips inspired by Richard Johnson on building partners for your Church Plant.
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24. Social Media and Email/Newsletters
How can we communicate with our church plant partners about what’s going on? How can we engage with those we are trying to reach? Should we be using social media at all? In this episode of the Church Planting Australia Podcast, we're thinking about communications - social media, email, and more.
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23. Recruiting Our Launch Team
How do we recruit and build a united launch team for our specific planting model? Here are 6 principles to keep in mind.
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22. Financial Partners
Fundraising is awkward! But is it also a gospel opportunity? Today we look at 9 specific tips to raise financial partnership for our church plant.
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21. Prayer Partners
Our key theological conviction is that our church plant is reliant on God. Here are 3 things to help keep prayer on the agenda.
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20. Planting Information Nights
Planting Information Nights - when should we run them? Who is our target audience? What information should we share? In today's episode we discuss 4 steps to make the most of these nights to encourage partnership.
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19. Building Partnership
How do we invite people to partner with our church plant? Today's episode helps us think through what Gospel Partnership is, and how to begin inviting others to join us.
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18. 6 More Church Planting Tips For Mission
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17. Size Appropriate Mission
This episode is best as a youtube video. Click here for the youtube video. Derek traces out the contact-connect-convert mission plan at different stages of a church plant. Available as video, audio and e-book at genevapush.com/plantingaustralia. Get assessed at genevapush.com/get-assessed.
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16. Conversions In A Church Plant
Under God, what can we do to best set up our church plant to win people to faith?
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15. Making Connections With The Community In A Church Plant
Looking at the mission funnel, we're thinking about helping people make the journey from being contacts at church to being connected to Christians and Christianity. The graphic mentioned in this episode is here.
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14. Making Contacts In A Church Plant
How will your church plant make new contacts in the community? Ideally, you can become known as 'the church I know I don't go to'. This episode points to four ways to make contacts:
1) The personal contact of your launch team.
2) The 'new front door'.
3) Community leaders and existing groups in the community.
4) Special events. The graphic mentioned in this episode is here.
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13. Mobilising Your Church Plant For Mission
Help your launch team to grow in conviction, competence and confidence for mission. The diagram mentioned in this video is here.
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Much of this content is drawn from Sam Hilton and Sam Chan.
12. Ecosystems and Pathways
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11. Building the Plumbing for Church Plants
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10. Cultural Values
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9. Biblical Values
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8. Values Overview
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7. Packaging Your Vision
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Our Podcasting Mates
If you're enjoying Church Planting Australia, you might enjoy some of the other podcasts in the Reach Australia podcast network: The Reach Australia podcast is long form, deep-dive chats with church leaders. The One Thing gives you one solid, practical tip for Gospel-centred ministry, every week. Home Grown Faith focuses on faith, theology and the everyday. Just type 'Reach Australia, The One Thing or Homegrown Faith into your podcasting app
6. Towards A Vision
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5. Clarity
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4. Gospel Intersections
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3. Where Could You Plant?
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2. Could You Plant A Church?
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1. Why Church Planting?
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New podcast: Church Planting Australia
If we count generously, about 5% of Australia knows Jesus and loves him. That leaves around 95% of Australia - approaching 23 million - without hope. And we’re convinced that God’s church is at the center of His plans for this world. But many churches are aging, many are closing their doors, and attendance over the past 30 years has been declining. But that’s not the end of the story.
Hey I’m Madeleine Galea
And I’m Derek Hanna
And we’re part of Geneva Push, the Australian church planting network.
We’re launching this new podcast series, Church Planting Australia, because we’re deeply convinced that new churches reach new people. Geneva Push, as part of the Reach Australia network, saw over 100 churches launched across Australia reaching thousands of people with the Gospel. This is an amazing work of God...but we know we’ve only just scratched the surface.
So what we’re working and praying for as we move towards 2030 is for 200 more churches. This is a big vision - and something that can only God can bring about. And if we’re going to get there, we’re going to need 200 more planters and planting couples to lead these churches, and hundreds more people to join them as they do.
So in this podcast, we want to push you to start thinking about whether you should be and could be part of leading or going with one of those 200 more churches we’re praying will be evangelised into existence across Australia to see tens of thousands reached with the Gospel through church planting.
To get started just type ‘church planting Australia’ into your podcasting app, or go to genevapush.com/plantingaustralia