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Course
The 5 Seasons of a Church Plant
~21 Hours
In The 5 Seasons of a Church Plant course, learn to identify realities that affect your church plant’s mission, discern Spirit-led goals, and become more agile to adapt to your plant’s changing needs in real-time.
Len Tang
About This Course
A church plant is a dynamic, living organism that requires the planter to lead with agility through the five developmental stages of a church plant, from birth through reproduction. In this 5 Seasons of a Church Plant course, you’ll learn to identify the contextual realities that will shape your plant’s mission, vision, and values. These include financial realities, geophysical location, the unique needs of your neighborhood, and your team’s particular strengths, to name a few. You’ll grow in your ability to discern Spirit-led goals, tasks, and steps that complement that context. And you’ll become more agile to adapt those goals, tasks, and steps in real-time.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the unique leadership dynamics of each of the five seasons of a church plant
- Develop a holistic picture of the people group God is calling you to serve, and clarify the mission, vision, and values statements of your church based on that information
- Develop a plan to use adaptive leadership in pivoting the church plant's strategy based on your context
- Select a church planting model that fits the mission, vision, values, and cultural context of your church plant, and acquire the funds to start the church
This course counts towards the Church Planting Certificate.
Created in partnership with the Church Planting Initiative and FULLER Equip.
- Church Planting
- Lead Pastor
- Leadership
- Church & Ministry
Introduction
1. Getting Started
2. Overview of the 5 Seasons
Season 1: Planting the Seed
3. The Why: Clarifying Vision & Values
4. The Who & Where: Identifying Your People Group and Location
5. The When & How: Timelines and Church Planting Models
6. The How Much: Financing the Church Plant
Season 2: Deepening Roots
7. Finding & Building the Launch Team
Season 3: Sprouting above Ground
8. Launching Public Worship: Contextualization
9. Launching Public Worship: Teams & Timing
Season 4: Branching into the World
10. How Do We Begin to Branch Out?
11. Learning to Pivot
Season 5: Bearing Fruit and Reproducing (Multiplication)
12. Cultivating a Movement
Conclusion
13. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Len Tang
Church Planter Program Director, M.Div
Len is the Church Planting Program director at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is married to Amy and they have three boys. Len received a B.S. from UC Berkeley and an MDiv from Fuller Seminary. He has planted two churches: Cedar Creek Church in 2004 outside of Portland, Oregon, and Missio Community Church in 2018 in Pasadena, California.
