In this episode, we talk with Dr. Scott Moreau, Associate Academic Dean of the Wheaton College Graduate School and Professor of Intercultural Studies, about the necessity of developing a missiology for North America. Part of that task is to sort through the splintering of North American Christianity and think through its implications for future church planting and Christian witness.

Much of our modern church planting systems (recruitment, assessment, training, etc…) were designed with a launch large model in mind. However, few church planting organizations today, if any, would say they only want to plant attractional churches. Dr. Brad Brisco shares about what in our systems might be hindering planting missional churches and the opportunities for innovation that covocational church planting provides.

It's rare for denominations to come together to plant churches, but we're seeing local networks and families of churches bring groups together to plant towards a common DNA. Drew Hyun planted Hope NYC which, in five years, has become a family of nine churches that span across three denominations. Listen to this episode for how that works and how it could be a model for the future of multi-denominational collaboration.

What can North Americans learn from church planting from around the world and how does the rise of second and third generation immigrants affect church planting pipelines? In this episode, Dr. Craig Ott helps us understand the similarities and differences in how church planting is happening in Europe and other parts of the world and how the global Church can work together.

The Religious Nones are one of the fasting rising groups in North America today. In this episode, Dr. James Emery White nuances who are Religious Nones and how North American church planting has lost some of its effectiveness in reaching this group, but how church planting organizations can help them gain it back.

What does apostolic church planting really mean and what does it look like in a North American context? In this episode, we talk with Dr. J.D. Payne, missiologist and pastor of Church Multiplication at the Church at Brook Hills. We also discuss the largest unreached people groups in North America and what it looks like to plant churches among the most unengaged communities.

Listen to this week's podcast as we interview Dr. Michael O. Emerson, sociologist, provost of North Park University, and author of Divided by Faith. We discuss multi-ethnic churches, social trends, and how to lead an organization towards greater diversity.

Listen to the introductory episode of the Send Institute podcast where Ed, Jeff, and Daniel discuss why the Send Institute was started.