Sponsoring Starbuck’s Churches in a Folgers World

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Sponsoring Starbucks Churches in a Folgers World

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• Dr. Tom Cheyney, Director
• Resource Development Deliver Team, NAMB

Ten Stages to Sponsoring A Growing Healthy
Multiplying Church
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Resources for Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Here are three great resources you should
  have if you are serious in the Sponsoring of new
  works

Amazon.com
www.newchurchspecialities.org
www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net
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Six Legs of Sponsoring for the Partnering Church

• Vision Pastor and people capture the vision to
  be a multiplying church
• Draw Taking the dream and making it a reality
  
• Expansion Crystallize the plan
• Commissioning Commissioned Sent
• Resolve Regaining its footing in order to
  launch once more
• Vocation doing it again again

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 1 The Pastor/leader must catch the
  revelation form God to Sponsor.
• It all begins with the leader. Typically, as the
  Pastor goes so goes the church.
• The pastor is the key to reaching the harvest
  through church sponsoring. If he is willing,
  almost always the people are willing. If the
  pastor is hesitant, the people will be reluctant
  to move ahead and sponsor. Consider the following
  questions

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• 1. Why would the Pastor not want to plant?
• Planting new churches is the closest we have
  to a guaranteed means of reaching more people
  with the Good News that Jesus Christ is Lord and
  Savior. The historical record is clear that we
  cannot rely on long-established congregations to
  reach all the new generations of people
• - Lyle Schaller

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• 2. What questions will have to be answered to get
  the Pastor to consider partnering and sponsoring?
• Church Planting is not a denominational
  priority, any church can plant a new one. Church
  Planting is not the outgrowth of a particular
  theology. All groups can do it, whether Baptist,
  Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Methodist, Mennonite,
  Community or other. Church Planting is not a
  strategy of mega churches all sizes of churches
  can plant a new church! - SPIN-OFF CHURCHES

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• 3. What does the congregation think about
  partnering and sponsoring?
• Rapid multiplication from one locality, seems
  close to what Jesus had in mind for the 12
  apostles when He sent them from Jerusalem to
  Judea and Samaria and then to the ends of the
  earth (Acts 18). Tom Cheyney, SPIN-OFF
  CHURCHES

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 2 Build a conviction to sponsor through
  prayer.
• Nothing short of a spiritual revival can
  save North America and prayer has to be the
  starting point. All spiritual awakenings have had
  one common characteristic prayer. This should
  not surprise us because God made it clear early
  on in the life of Israel If my people who are
  called by my name will humble themselves
  and pray and seek my face and turn from their
  wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and
  forgive their sins and heal their land. Now my
  eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the
  prayers offered in this place (2 Chronicles
  714,15).
• Need does not constitute burden.
• Prayer is the critical component.
• Pastors should make the time to take the time
  to spend time with God.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 2 Build a conviction to sponsor through
  prayer (continued).
• Quick Primer
• Need does not constitute burden.
• Prayer is the critical piece in sponsoring.
• Pastors should make the time to take the
  time to spend time with God.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 3 Cast the vision to the entire
  congregation.
• You have to get the people to buy into the
  sponsoring vision. Begin with key leaders. Put
  books into their hands. Take them to Sponsoring
  Starbucks Churches in a Folgers World, CPG
  conferences and attend the Partners in Church
  Planting Training Track with NAMB together.
• Go to www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net and search
  for PiCP

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 3 Cast the vision to the entire
  congregation (continued).
• If your vision is for a year, plant wheat.
• If your vision is for ten years, plant trees.
• If your vision is for a lifetime, plant a church!

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Vision is the first step a pastor leader must
  cast to the potential sponsoring congregation.
• Vision grips a person with a sense of authority.
  Vision is not about what a person wants to do.
• Instead, vision is about God helping a person
  draw a mental imagea pictureof what God expects
  His servant to do.
• The Vision must be clear, compelling, and common
  to all those God draws around it.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Vision is the dream given by God unsually
  birthed in either the sponsoring church leader
  first and then the planter closely behind that
  vision, but ultimately owned by the new
  congregation. It is the fire, flavor and fuel
  that drives a new churches unique expression of
  the Great Commission. God-given visions are
  always impossible to achieve apart from God!

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• A vision creates tremendous enthusiasm and
  energy in the present about the desired future of
  your church.
• A vision captures and maximizes the special
  uniqueness about your church.
• A vision draws people in and calls them to
  commitment and involvement.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• In casting the vision beware of some obstacles
  you will have to clear.
• 1. Apprehension Fright
• 2. Assets (What will it cost?)
• 3. Asset of friendships
• 4. Investment of leadership
• 5. Lack of expertise
• 6. Superiority (We can do it all so we
  dont need a new plant, we can minister to
  everyone!)
• 7. Self-centeredness
• 8. Not Our Thing right now!
• 9. Timing of the sponsoring churches role
• 10. Ownership

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 4 Cultivate the resources
• The sponsor church has many resources
  necessary to help a new church get going. The
  four key resources needed to be cultivated
• 1. Capital
• 2. Kin Sorry no C! (a fishing pool for
  leaders and workers) Connections maybe!
• 3. Care and supervision
• 4. Cultivation of team members for team

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• 5 Reasons Why People Give To Church Planting
• (for further help contact Greg Pena at
  gpena_at_namb.net)
• 1. Because they believe in the Church Planter.
• 2. Because they have a personal relationship with
  the person who asks for the gift.
• 3. Because they believe in the cause--they want
  to invest in ministry.
• 4. Because of the content of the
  communication--they are approached with a good
  presentation.
• 5. Because of the method of the
  communication--the more personal it is, the more
  successful it will be.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Avoid the 3 Biggest Mistakes In Church
  Sponsoring
• 1. Moving forward with plans before the entire
  congregation has bought in and owns the vision to
  sponsor a new church!
• 2. Poor planter selection and lack of a clear new
  church action plan (Planting is vogue right now
  but it is work)
• 3. Inability to release control of the new
  church. More assistance on the
  Top Ten Mistakes Sponsoring Churches Make can be
  found at the Church Planters Resources Café _at_
  www.PlanterDude.com and SPIN OFF Churches How
  One Church Successfully Sponsors Another by Tom
  Cheyney and Rodney Harrison (B H Publishing).

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 5 Reflect on the strategic opportunities.
• Look around at the locations that might be good
  areas to plant. Determine the model or design you
  might utilize in sponsoring. You can find models
  on the Church Planting Village.
• Twenty-One Church Planting Models for the
  Twenty-First Century by Tom Cheyney
• www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net
• Your One Stop Shop For Church Planting

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 6 Map out a PATH.
• Take them to Sponsoring Starbucks Churches in
  a Folgers World, conferences and attend the
  Partners in Church Planting Training Track with
  NAMB together.
• These training events will help
• you develop a Sponsoring
• Church Action Plan.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Make any TRACK corrections for getting back on
  path.
• 1. Think about the present situation
• 2. Remember to have an end result in mind
• 3. Advance strategically purposefully
• 4. Calculate your progress navigate the
  problems
• 5. Keep your people on board by showing the
  results

More information regarding TRACK can be found in
The Ripple Church by Phil Stevenson
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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 7 Make the Investment.
• Anything worthwhile has a cost involved. A
  sponsor church will make five incredible
  investments
• 1. Resources (people)
• 2. Riches (dollars)
• 3. Ranch Space (terrain)
• 4. Reach Resources (territory)
• 5. Rate of Development (momentum)
• Sponsoring always costs something, but the
  results are always worth it!

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 8 Commemorate the release.
• When releasing the sponsoring team be sure to
  design a service that is a combination of
  commemoration, celebration and commission.
• Always remember the trinity of releasing the
  new church plant!

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How To Let Go of the New Church
• Emotionally, keep telling yourself to let go!
• It's not easy.
• 2. Continue to honor your financial commitments
  to the new church, but don't second-guess the
  decisions that the new church is making. Trust
  them!

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How To Let Go of the New Church
• 3. Recognize your changing relationship with both
  the church planter and the new church.
• 4. As the sponsor, know when to pull the plug for
  good and let the new church stand on its own.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How To Let Go of the New Church
• 5. If the new church is not released, the
  relationship between the two churches will be
  troubled long-term. First, the sponsor church
  won't recover as quickly, because it will be
  focusing on the needs of two churches. And
  secondly, the new church won't develop rightly.
  It will either develop resentment or dependency
  (or both) toward the sponsor church. So
  releasing the new church is crucial to its
  long-term health.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How To Commemorate Its Success
• 1.Continue to pray for the new church publicly,
  with thankfulness to God for the lives that are
  being changed.
• 2.Celebrate the grand opening by video taping the
  service and playing parts of it to the sponsor
  church.
• 3.Have the planter come on Sunday night or
  Wednesday night and share an update of how the
  new church is progressing.
• 4.Celebrate the first baptism service. Take
  pictures and show them to the sponsor church.

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Multiplying Church

• How To Commemorate Its Success
• 5. Celebrate the first anniversary service.
  Recount how God has blessed and been at work
  during the first year.
• 6.Invite the new church to participate and go
  with you to the state evangelism meeting. Go
  with the planter to the Pastor's Wives Retreat
  and other district functions. Move from acting
  like the "sponsor" church, to treating them as a
  "sister" church. (But just know that as the
  sponsor, you will always feel the pride a sponsor
  feels when your child does well!)
• 7. Schedule the formal church organization
  service at a time when people from the sponsor
  church can join in the celebration by attending.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 9 Give attention to the recuperation.
• The sponsor needs to concentrate on
  stabilizing. Make sure you regain your footing
  monetarily, spiritually, psychologically,
  numerically and relationally. This recovery time
  will often depend on the health of the sponsor
  prior to the birth.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How To Replenish The Sponsor Church's Vision
• 1. First, take some time to rest.

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Multiplying Church

• How To Replenish The Sponsor Church's Vision
• 2. If it is led correctly, the sponsor church can
  experience a very clear sense of renewed vision
  from God.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How To Replenish The Sponsor Church's Vision
• 3. As the sponsor church pastor, establish clear
  goals and develop a detailed action plan as you
  lead the sponsor church forward.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How to Reload the Sponsor Church's Vision
• 4.Remember the following realities about the
  impact of sponsoring a new church
• a. Crowd revitalization - it usually takes 3-12
  months to recover if 10 of your average
  attendance goes with the new church.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How to Reload the Sponsor Church's Vision
• 4.Remember the following realities about the
  impact of sponsoring a new church
• b. Economic revitalization - the time required
  for this will depend on the number of tithers
  you have given and the length of time you have
  committed to support the new church.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• How to Reload the Sponsor Church's Vision
• c. Leadership revitalization - it usually takes
  3-12 months to raise up new leaders to replace
  those who you send out in mission. In the
  sponsor church, the apprenticing of replacement
  leaders should begin in the pre-natal phase,
  before the new church is born. Lack of new
  leaders in the sponsor church indicates the need
  for improving your system of challenging,
  training and mobilizing people for ministry.

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10 Stages to Sponsoring A Growing, Healthy
Multiplying Church

• Stage 10 Rebirth and Reproduce again.
• A healthy church should be capable of
  rebirthing and reproducing every three to four
  years.
• It is through reproducing churches we will be
  able to see whole regions taken for the glory of
  God, church planting movements arise and the
  Kingdom of God expand.
• (Dialogue and Q A)

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Thank You for Allowing Me to Journey with You
Today! God Bless You.
For more helpful church planting resources go
to www.PlanterDude.com www.BoomerangChurches.co
m www.ChurchPlantingVillage.net
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• THANK YOU!