Articles of Interest

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Articles, Magazines, Reports

44 Lessons on Church Planting (Lyle Schaller): Straight list of lessons learned from a leader in church planting and renewal. In two parts; the main link is to part 1 (click for Part 2).

Baptist General Conference 1998-99 Global Church Planting Report: online version of their annual report of church planting working going on around the world.

A Believer's Church Theology--This material was first published by Widows Mite, 1994, by Herb Drake, for use in Prof. Nelson's Systematic Theology classes at Golden Gate Seminary. This revised edition was published in 1996, Herb Drake and Matthew Wysocki editors. It appears on the House Church Central website by permission of the author. Dr. Nelson is Senior Professor of Theology at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, California.

Cell Church Magazine (from Ralph Neighbor)--online version providing the table of contents from 1992 through the present of this magazine devoted to the development of the meta-church approach to church planting and growth. "CellChurch Magazine is a quarterly publication of TOUCH Outreach Ministries. It is the finest resource for the pure cell church available. While other magazines focus on small groups from time to time, CellChurch brings you a fascinating look at cell-based churches around the world and hard hitting articles from the movement's leaders every issue. It doesn't muddy the water with meta thinking - it just focuses on the needs and desires of pure cell churches, cell church plants and churches transitioning to cells from the traditional model."

Church Planting and the Great Commission Two part article which is an excerpt from "Church Planting Approach to Mission" by S. Devasagayam Ponraj, Bethel Bible Institute, Danishpet - 636354, Salem Dist., Tamil Nadu, India. 1987 (click for Part 2: The Stages of Church Planting).

Church Planting Newsletter: the official church planting newsletter of the North American Division Evangelism Institute (SDA). This newsletter currently goes out by e-mail and is posted on the website.

ChurchSmart Newsletter offers several articles dealing with church planting issues, including a number from the perspective of Christian Schwarz's Natural Church Development.

Easum Bandy & Associates -- Equipping church leaders for the 21st Century articles many linked articles dealing with church growth and planting, with an index to their church planting articles.

Ethnic Church Planting article has many resources available;Church Planting Group (NAMB)--provides multiple resources on church planting from a Southern Baptist perspective.

"Evangelism: What Does it Take?": YouthWork Magazine (UK) Article presenting a summary of lessons from the pioneering evangelistic principles of Vincent Donovan, a Catholic missionary to the Maasai people in the 1960s, can be applied to modern-day youth ministry, claims Heather Evans. Read how Fr. Donovan's efforts to contextualise the gospel could help you (excerpts from Donovan's Christianity Rediscovered).

"The Harvest is Ready" (by Jared Roth) An article exploring the issues of church planting through the method of "daughtering" churches; the main focus being on churches in the United States.

Houses That Change the World Wolfgang Simson's 200 page book on the house church movement; you can choose either an MS Word 7 or Adobe Acrobat format.

MCFD Church Planting/Restart Page: Multiple articles on planting or restarting churches; sponsored by the Missionary Church USA which is a part of the World Wide Missionary Church.

On Mission article on church planting from Church Planting Group (NAMB).

Resources for the Pastor and Church Planter--A list of resources on church planting, some of which are available via links on the site. The list comes from the appendix of Shelton Cole's book on Baptist Church Planting.

The Ten Commandments Of Nineteenth Century Church Planting by David W. Hall in Premise, a publication of the Center for the Advancement of Paleo Orthodoxy (CAPO), an internet consortium of think tanks with seven distinct areas. This ministry is wholly supported by the Session of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge, TN.

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