List of Active
Church Planting Networks
What is a Church
Planting Network?
What does
it mean to be "network centric" versus "organization centric?"
What is the
difference between planting churches and planting networks?
What is an Alliance Member?
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List of Active Church
Planting Networks
GlocalNet
Church
Multiplication Associates
Stadia -
Alliance Member
New Thing
Network
-
Alliance Member
Orchard
Group
-
Alliance Member
Emerging Leadership Initiative
Acts 29
Global Church
Advancement
-
Alliance Member
Vision USA
Association of Related Churches
Mission
Catalyst
-
Alliance Member
Emerging Church Network
Sovereign
Grace Ministries
Vision 2020 -
Alliance Member
Kingdom Synergy Partnerships -
Alliance Member
Anglican Communion Network -
Alliance Member
Growing
Healthy Congregations Network
Campus
Church Networks
Northwest
Church Planting
Xpansion
Southwest
Church Planting Network
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Planting churches versus planting networks?
There is a significant difference
between planting churches and planting networks. When
starting a new church, the primary focus is on initiating and
supporting the new church. The new church is the
center of attention. In starting networks, the
primary focus is on the care, feeding, and development of the
network. Network participants inherently value
leadership development and training, collaboration, a "sending
culture", and reproduction at all levels. A key byproduct
of healthy networks are new reproducing churches.
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What does it mean to be "network centric" versus
"organization centric?"
Most church planting organizations migrate to
an "organization centric" model. When the church planting
activity is low (less than 5 plants per year), most services
(e.g. assessment, training, etc) are outsourced. As
the number of plants increases, the organization assumes more
and more functions. The overhead infrastructure
begins competing for dollars and functions and services are
brought within the organization. In some cases, more
financial resources end up going into supporting the
organization than into the resulting church plants.
In an organization centric model, the
organization is the center of the org chart. The role of
the organization is to initiate a project, find a planter, find
dollars, find partners, and then to support the planter, etc.
In essence, the role of the organization is to bring all the
needed resources to the organization so that the organization
can take care of the new church. Often the level of
support suffers as organizations simply can not offer the same
level of service as those specializing in the service.
In a network centric approach, the network
focuses on relationships. Relationships with network
members, potential planters, and active planters.
The network essentially becomes a community of like-minded
individuals focused on the common goal of healthy reproduction
(e.g. leaders, disciples, churches, etc.).
Networks have the option of outsourcing
services to remain focused on what they do best...relationships.
A number of prominent networks are now facing this choice...do
they outsource their support services or do they build internal
structures. The Church Planting Network and its
Alliance Members seek to make it possible for networks to remain
lean with minimal overhead structures while providing a somewhat
systematic approach to identifying qualified service providers
that meet defined quality standards.
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What is an Alliance Member?
God is doing great things through an expanding
number of collaborative church planting networks.
Imagine the potential of these networks working
together...sharing with one another and learning from one
another.
As Alliance Members, each participating
network maintains it's unique values and identity while
committing to work collaboratively with other networks.
The Church Planting Network is
an alliance of like-minded
organizations committed to starting new churches through
collaborative networks. The Church Planting Network
is the synergy created by its Alliance Members. There is
no cost to participate, just a commitment to work together.
Alliance Members share the following benefits:
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Alliance Members participate collaboratively in
ongoing learning communities for the purpose of sharing lessons
learned and sharpening one another.
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Alliance Members collaboratively maintain and administer quality standards for
network service providers.
Through these certified service providers, Alliance Members have
access to high-quality, proven outsourced services.
The result: less overhead, less internal structure, more
dollars into planting.
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Alliance Members received increased visibility on
and participation in their networks as church planters, church
planting churches, and other organizations use the Church
Planting Network to get connected with active networks (the
Church Planting Network is not itself a church planting
organization but rather it seeks to plug planters and
organizations into the Alliance Member networks).
• Alliance Members
have a voice in the programming for the annual
National New Church Conference.
Alliance Members are designated in
red above. Interested in becoming an Alliance Member?
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