Cross-cultural Church Planting School

Sample of topics at ReachGlobal (the international mission of the EFCA)'s Church Planting School include the following:
1. Four introductory facts about the church
2. What should the church look like?
3. The personal life of the church planter
4. The self-understanding of the church planter
5. Church Planting Models and Strategies
6. The church planting cycle
7. Evangelism and church planting
8. Cell groups and church planting
9. Research methods and church planting
10. Leadership development and church planting
11. Planning and evaluation in church planting
12. Case studies

Objectives:

1. To emphasize the primacy of church planting in fulfilling the Great Commission.

2. To affirm the fact that evangelism and discipleship must always lead on to the planting of local churches.

3. To introduce participants to biblical principles of cross-cultural church planting and to the procedures of the church planting process.

4. To discuss, evaluate, and contextualize the church planting process and help participants begin to develop a church planting strategy tuned to their cultural ministry settings.

5. To help participants understand their role in cross-cultural church planting and anticipate the joys and challenges of a life-long church planting ministry.

6. To introduce participants to cross-cultural church planting resource materials.

7. To provide fellowship and encouragement in the church planting ministry.

Who: All ReachGlobal missionaries or PRGI Professionals of long-term status

What: Cross-cultural Church Planting School

When: May 1-5, 2007

Where: EFCA national office in Minneapolis

Why: Training requirement to attend one time, preferrably before going to the field