Rethinking Church Plant Funding

What do you do when the well runs dry? You dig another well.

Since the turn of the century, many denominations have made a strong effort to funnel resources toward church planting. This support helps to secure facilities, execute marketing campaigns, provide equipment for ministry, and even underwrite pastoral support.

That's a good thing.

Not only have denominations created departments that financially support church planting, the church planters have the blessings of the denomination’s leadership, which often helps them gain access to established local churches to seek financial sponsorship.

In the new millennium, networks have followed a similar pattern, though to a lesser degree due to their smaller resource base. Keep reading

If the churches forming the Anglican Church in North America had a serious commitment to reaching and engaging the unchurched in North America and enfolding them into new churches, they would be devoting a major share of their resources toward church planting, not building construction. We spend our money on what we value the most.