Life of a Church Planter

Mac Lake is a Lead Navigator at Auxano, an organization that helps develop actionable plans for articulating, planning, and integrating vision into church cultures. Mac is also the Lead Architect of the the Pipeline Development Process. Find out more about Mac go to http://www.maclakeonline.com/

What does it take to not only launch a church, but a church planting movement?

This week we talk to Mike Newman about a historic church planting movement that might surprise you. We look at what where some of the characteristics of being a church platning movement. Then we talk to Tony Webb who is a part of an organization that is in the beginning stages of a church planting movement using what he calls the GSE model.

Facebook, twitter, instagram and Google Anylitics; are just tools for the modern marketer to master or are they an untapped catalyst for outreach?!

This episode we dive into the digital world and explore the tools you as a church planter can leaverage to reach the lost. We talk about things like social media and google analitics and how they can be used to connect people to Jesus and your church community!

Josh Burns works with Social Media Academy, a company dedicated to teaching churches how to leverage Social Media. Kevin Weaver works with Network 21/1, a group dedicated to reaching people ripe to hear the gospel around the world using google analytics.

This is an episode you don't want to miss!

It's Holy Week, and Easter is right around the corner! Time to kick the last minute prep work in gear. Time to run like your hair is on fire, so you can soak up all the mission opporunities around you!

With all of the things that need to get done to prepare, have you stopped to do the most important thing? Pray? This week we have a shortened episode, so we can simply stop and Pray. We are talking to Chris Paavola, future planter, and author of the new ebook Pray What You See: A Five-Week Prayerwalk Challenge. Learn from Chris' own prayer journey toward planting in University City in St. Louis. And use this as your own opporutnity to stop and pray.

This week we talk with Jonathan Reitz from Coachnet.org. Jonathan planted 4 churches, coached, and became the CEO of coachnet.org. An important part of planting is finding the right coach at the right time. Jonahtan shares some incredible insights into finding the right coach at the right time. We also have an opportunity to talk to Brit Windel, who is in his first year planting Day Break Church, to find out how coaching is helping him in his first year of planting.

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This week we talk to David Putman, a grat thinker and practictionar of discipleship. His goal is simple, to help oridnary people plant the extra-ordinary Gospel where they live work and play.

David is founding leader of Planting the Gospel (PTG) and serves as a Lead Navigator with Auxano (www.auxano.com), the category leader in vision clarity. Prior to PTG he served as Executive Pastor of Mountain Lake Church and Co-founder of churchplanters.com.

David is co-author of Breaking the Missional Code (with Ed Stetzer), author of Breaking the Discipleship Code, and Detox for the Overly Religious. His latest book, The Gospel Disciple Journey, is due to be released in early 2015.

Regardless of whether David is training, consulting, writing, speaking, or engaged in his Crossfit community it is a reflection of His life's mission to help others discover the simplicity of Jesus and His ways.

David and his wife, Tami, live in Atlanta area.

Join us as we talk with Pastor Matt Popovits of OSNY in New York about the all important task of preaching while planting.

Preaching is a fun and challenging task for any pastor, but when you add the challenges of planting a new ministry on top of a full plate of preaching it becomes an entirely different animal. This week we have the rare opportunity to not only hear from preaching expert, but a preaching expert who is also in the first years of replating a church in New York city. His wisdom is both powerful and practical as he shares how the task of preaching in a church plant is important but different.

This week on Life of a Church Planter we are talking missional community with Hugh Halter and Dave Ficken.

Today "missional community" seems to be a buzz word in the church planting world. It covers a variety of styles, looks, feels, and networks. That can make it a very confusing thing to wrap your mind around. So what does it mean to plant a Missional Community Church?

Join us as we talk to Hugh Halter, who shares his story and expertise on the subject of Missional community. Then we get a chance to talk to Dave Ficken, founding Pastor of Rhythm City Church in Nashville, TN to hear about his expeirence in his first 2 years of planting a missional community style church.