Training NewStart & ReStart Church Planters:

At NCS, we are VERY excited about our totally revamped and updated NewStart/ReStart Training curriculum for 2009! We have actually taken a development step no other church planter training organization has taken – we have merged cutting-edge church plant training with the best church health training available.

The result is training components that have a very clearly built, desired outcomes which focus on a strong, healthy church plant. We then use the Church Health Survey as a measuring tool in the church plant development process. A sample of some of the components we address are below:

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15 training components/3 sections

Section I – Laying the Proper Personal Foundation

1. Spiritual Disciplines

Passion and Call
Prayer and Fasting
Preparing for Spiritual Warfare
Keeping a strong Devotional Life
Personal Purity under pressure

** Desired Outcome – Personal Awareness and a written strategy for maintaining a proper Spiritual focus.

2. Family Life

Dealing with stress on the home
Keeping the romance hot
Scheduling vacation and family time
Creating proper boundaries – Were the family gets involved

** Desired Outcome – Written plan for maintaining family unit during the pressures of planting.

3. Loving The Church

Maintaining proper relationships
Falling in love with the church
Commitment to Multiplication

** Desired Outcome – Acknowledgement of the Church’s importance and a commitment to maintain proper relationships.

Section II – Building Healthy Church Systems

4. Empowering Leadership

Discovering your Leadership Style – (SOI Inventory)
Hiring your first team leader
Building a complimentary team.
Equipping a leadership base
Understanding Potential leadership landmines
When to add a staff member and how to Hire and fire

** Desired Outcome – Written plan for developing a leadership team and a volunteer system.

5. Gift-Based Ministry

Use of Spiritual Gift, and other personal inventories
How to build and train a volunteer base
Creating a learning environment
Creating a S.H.A.P.E. Ministry

** Desired Outcome – Creation of a gift-based system for training
new members

6. Passionate Spirituality

Understanding the factors that block Spiritual passion
Creating a positive atmosphere
Developing a preaching schedule for the first year
Developing an integrated approach to preaching and small groups
Creation of study tools for church attendees

** Desired Outcome – Development of system to raise the spiritual temperature of the congregation.

7. Functional Structures

How to incorporate the church and other legal matters
Developing Core Values
Developing and memorizing the Vision story
Developing the Mission Statement
Development of a membership process
Development of an organizational chart

** Desired Outcome – Written draft of Values, Vision, Mission and completed legal forms.

8. Inspiring Worship

Pre-service preparation - prayer team
Use of a creative team
Keeping a relevant edge.
Creating a one-year preaching schedule
Use of technology in the service
Maintaining a standard of excellence
Worship flow – creating a sense of expectancy
Setting up for the first-time
Second-Sunday strategy
Setting up the room for the greatest impact

** Desired Outcome – A clearly defined strategy for creating an inspiring worship service that meets the needs of the target group.

9. Holistic Small Groups

How and when to start small groups
Developing a small group methodology
Developing a small group structure
Keeping small groups growing and multiplying
Training new group leaders
Keeping a fresh edge

** Desired Outcome – Written system for the implementation of a small group ministry.

10. Need-Oriented Evangelism

Understand the three colors of evangelism
Develop as process to speak regularly about evangelism/spheres of influence from the platform.
Create a one-year outreach plan into the community
Understand how to maintain a strong focus on evangelism
Develop a plan for educating members about how their giftedness relates to evangelistic outreach
High-impact, Low cost outreach

** Desired Outcome – Written plan for developing members for outreach and the development of a one-year plan for community outreach.

11. Loving Relationships

Creating a climate of love among attendees
One-year fellowship plan.
Challenging deeper relationship through preaching.
Training staff to be servants rather than served
Developing a hospitality system for Sunday Morning services
Practical Assimilation process

** Desired Outcome – Written one-year plan for developing fellowship and a step by step assimilation process.

Section III – Creating A Strong Launch Plan

12. Building An Initial Core Group

Targeting your audience – (Must have a demographic completed of target area prior to coming)
How many core group members do I need and when do I need them?
Making the pitch- Private phase verse public phase of core group
Where to find them and how to recruit
Training core team for the opening service
Use of TellStart. Phone tree, etc…
Creation of a launch timeline

** Desired Outcome – Developed plan for targeting and building an initial core group.

13. Finding the Right Facility

Facility Do’s and Don’ts
When to move and when to stay
Using the building to the fullest – (When to start a second service)
Matching the building with your target
When to buy

** Desired Outcome – Understanding of the potential pitfalls and possibilities of facilities

14. Using technology

Websites
Webcasting, vodcasting, podcsating
Use of Video in preaching
Being creative in the service and beyond

** Desired Outcome – Understanding of how to communicate using current technological venues.

15. Creating A Budget

Laying out a two-year plan to become self-supporting
Preaching on Stewardship
How to make the ask
Raising enough funding to start.
Creating an open and safe giving environment

** Desired Outcome – Clearly defined two-year budget and strategy for raising funds.

Extras We Also Address

A. Post-launch Mistakes

Loss of evangelistic drive
Managing people, becoming a pastor too quickly
Cessation of marketing
Staying ahead of the growth curve
Being mean with the vision

** Desired Outcome – Understanding of potential post-launch landmines.

B. Understanding the Factors of Fast-Growing Church Plants.

** Desired Outcome – Understanding factors involved in fast-growing church plants.

What People Are Saying About NCU & New Church Specialties:

NCU not only exceeded my expectations, but soared beyond my dreams.
Harold Wedel
ReFocusing Pastor, Harvester Church of the Nazarene
St. Louis, MO

There is a difference between hitting a home run by mistake and knowing how to connect for a high batting average. This event taught me to know how to plan and how to swing. It's like having a laser on the end of your God given bat!
Jim Walden
ReFocusing Pastor, American Baptist
Kansas City, MO

This event has changed my life in the biggest of ways! I realize God has a plan and I need to have one too...Thank you, NCU.
Joseph Kromewitter
Church Planter, Northern Michigan

NCU made me acutely aware of the necessity of thinking through and planning NewStart, ReStart, and ReFocusing opportunities on our district. Every pastor who is considering planting or refocusing a church should take the kind of intensive training offered by NCU.
Ronald C. McClung
District Superintendnent, The Wesleyan Church
Iowa/Minnesota

I am so thankful that at the beginning of my superintendency in Houston, NCU has given me great hope. The mission is possible!
Duane Srader
District Superintendent, Church of the Nazarene
Houston District

This week has greatly reshaped everything I thought I knew about planting and ReFocusing. Thanks for the in-depth and precise organization and planning for this life changing event.
Dr. David G. Roland
District Superintendent, Church of the Nazarene
Northeastern Indiana District

This leadership-enriched, content-packed, strategically focused, four-day event is some of the best time and money you will invest...I enthusiastically commend NCU as a training tool you should consider.
Dr. Jerry Pence
General Director of Evangelism & Church Growth, The Wesleyan Church