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Current Message Series Breaking Growth Barriers in Church Planting! these resources are for the new church that has launched and now needs to further its growth and seeks to understand the various barriers a church goes through in growingg a new work. 6003 Climbing Over 125 in New Church Attendance         6004 Climbing Over 200 in Your New Plant      6001 Breaking the 35 Barrier in Church Planting      6005 Climbing Over 400 in New Church Attendance         6002 Climbing over 75 in New Church Attendance      6006 Climbing Over 800 in New Church Attendance         Pastor's Study 5001 Incorporating Video into Worship      5002 Creating Your Own Sermon Illustrations Team      5003 How to Use Movie Clips in Worship      5004 Going Fishing for Message Titles      5005 Developing a Creative Worship Team      5006 Seven Ways to Improve this Weeks Message      5007 From Pulpit to Power Point      5008 How to Find Out if an Illustration is True      5009 Illustration Ground Rules      5010 Are You Blogging Yet?      5011 Rocking Around the Clock your christmas Eve Services!      5012 How to Communicate the Gospel in a Secular World!      Church Promotion 8001 50 Church Marketing Tools Often Overlooked      8002 Church Marketing Tools

Church Planting Resources First 500 Days  It is necessary to plan for the first 500 days and to commit much thought and prayer to this initial strategy for the church plant. 1001 Eleven Consequences of a Pre-mature Launch         1002 Top Twenty Mistakes Planter's Make      1004 Are You Ready to Launch?      1005 Five Leadership Blunders      1003 Shifting Approaches to Evangelism      1006 The Cost of Church Planting (People Focused)      1007 Core Group Helps      1008 Getting the Scope on Building a Core Group!      1009 The Copy-Cat Syndrom of Vision Casting      1010 15 Thing I Wish I Knew Before I Planted      1011 Best Practices for Church Planters      1012 Enjoy the Ride Principle!      1013 Things I Wish I Had Know When I Planted My Frist Church      1014 Steps to Planting a New Church!      1015 Facebook for Pastors      Planter's Café There is a greater need for more churches now than ever before. PlanterDude.com wants church planters, sponsoring church leaders, and those who work with them to be equipped, trained, and resourced with the latest tools so they can experience success in every new plant. 2001 Practical Plan for Prayer Partner's      2005 25 Pre-launch Questions for the Planter      2007 The Cost of Church Planting      2004 21 Church Planting Designs      2002 Principles for New Work Growth      2005 Breaking the 75 Barrier         2006 Breaking the 125 Barrier         2008 Reaching the Next Generation      2009 Eighteen Ways to Keep Your Plant from Advancing      2010 Distinctives of a Levelheaded Church Planter      2011 Equipping College & Seminary Students for Church Planting      2012 Developingt a Bold witness for Christ as a Church Planter!      Sponsor's Café The resources you will find in the Sponsoring Churches Resource Café are targeted specifically in assisting the reproducing church become more successful and useful in this endeavor. Browse through these pages and you will discover many helpful tools for every stage of your sponsoring church journey. Savor the journey! 3001 Do's and Dont's of Sponsoring Churches      3002 How to Finance Your New Church      3003 Counting the Cost of Sponsoring Churches      3004 How to Finance Your Sponsored New Work      3005 The Cost of Church Planting      3006 Recommended Web Site Links      3007 Sponsoring NNCC      3008 Developing a Church Planting Checklist Strategically      3009 Strategies for Planting Healthy Reproductive Churches      3010 Steps to Sponsoring a New Work      3011 Sponsoring Starbucks Churches      3012 Building Effective Church Planting Partnerships      Second 1,000 Days Not all of these resources will be needed at once but as you grow and continue to gather you will find ample opportunities to use these tools in the next stage of your growth so start at the beginning and continue to press on towards the mark. God will lead you. 4001 Relevant Preaching      4003 Seven Frustrations Preachers Face Today      4002 Going Fishing for Message Titles      4004 Incorporating Video into Your Worship Services      4005 Seven Ways to Improve Your Message!      4006 Seven Ways to Improve Your Preaching      4007 How to Preach in the 21st Century      4008 Ten Factors for Higher Attendance      4009 Outreach Ideas for Growing Churches      Twenty Something Thought 7001 An Intro Guide to the Twentysomething Life      7002 Seven Tactics that Will Never Work!      7003 Three Stages of a Twentysomething      7004 Too Busy, Too Tired & Unable to Commit      7005 What Twentysomethings Wish You Knew      7006 Retro Versus Metro: A Boomer’s Guide to      7007 The Great Wait: How Delaying Marriage Is Transforming Church      7008 The Twentysomethings Are Invading My Service! HELP!!!      7009 The Love Languages of Twentysomethings      7010 A Quarter life Crisis?      7011 Jaded Anyone?      7012 An Emerging Church: An Interview with Dan Kimball