20 Steps to Planting and Growing a Church
by Dr. Paul E. PainoPosted in Church Planting 13 Comments
A few practical church planting and ministry growth tips from Dr. Paul E. Paino:
- Make changes slowly.
- Announce office hours, then be there.
- Promote preaching series on pertinent subjects.
- Develop important contacts outside the church.
- Develop a personal visitation program for yourself.
- Set realistic goals which can be reached, which build faith.
- Write and use job descriptions for all positions, paid and unpaid.
- Look carefully and critically at your facility.
- Make connections with community leaders.
- Use the media before they use you.
- Schedule your teaching classes to run on schedule.
- Never count your losses and don’t preach your problems until you are past them.
- In the early years, start saving back personal offerings to bring in good speakers.
- Chart your growth in measurable ways.
- Develop leadership by making it possible for it to be self-supportive.
- Don’t hold on to someone once they start to leave you.
- Never fire a volunteer, promote them.
- Take quality time to train leadership, elders and deacons.
- Lay out a permanent training program for teachers.
- Gear the church up to reach children in your community.
About Dr. Paul E. Paino
Dr. Paul E. Paino, who went to be with the Lord in the fall of 2005, was the founder and overseer of Calvary Ministries International. Dr. Paino was a pioneer and spiritual father to hundreds of pastors and church leaders around the world - and his teachings still inspire today.13 responses to “20 Steps to Planting and Growing a Church”
I want to start church planting in 2012 to fulfill my call . I need assistant from all Church Leaders who may like to help me spiritually,financially and materially put structures down for such an important mission.
Eric – Start by reading our Beginners Guide to Church Planting. After reading it feel free to E-Mail us.
I do appreciate your church planting tips. Thanks so much for it. I went searching the NET to get tips, having secured a place to start a church and needed information. Yours appears so workable. I hope to still reach you after they had been acted on.
Thanks.
Thanks to God for knowing you. I belive you are a blessing.
thank god for a thoughts for growing church.
Dear Brothers and Sistters in Christ,
Much greetings in the name of Our Almighty God.
I am very much happy to know you through your web page, I thank God for making us to know each other.I am Pastor Haron with my beloved wife Vivian from Kenya.
I have went through your website and we were much inspired by the word of God, I thank God for that.
Here in Kenya, we have a church but we have no the founder of the church, so we request you humbly to hear our prayer request and partiner with us so that we can build the broken hearts.
GREETINGS IN JESUS NAME
I want to start a church so badly I want to make it a discipleship ministry (making people testifyers in what ever place they may be on a daily basis)I KNOW I HAVE TO BE PATIANT
I have not yet start to study my theology, currently I dont have a church I belong to, because I am busy seeking God for answers on what and how must I go about being a mothpeace for Him
I know for sure that I am Blessed with the gift of preaching (the holy spirit have been speaking to me since 2007).
could you please help me I am burning inside (to preach and reach the masses), but I somehow havent found my direction yet.
I am going to start a church plant in June 2011 in Central Iowa, geared toward the unreached,outcast,eclectic people that other churches either dont deal with or wont deal with, already have opposition from mega churches and other denominations so it really ought to be interesting to say the least! please pray for our ministry.
It was a very interesting read. WIll really take on baord these nuggets as I pastor the church in South Africa, Auckland Park, Johannesburg. Kingdom Ways Ministries
Greetings from Uganda in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
I need more practical teachings on church growth.Shalom!
I NEED MORE TEACHINGS ABOUT THE GROWING CHURCHES
With the help of the Lord I am trying to set up a Sunday school and worship group in the UK Do I need to register as a church? and what organisation would I need to contact to do that?
Look forward to hearing from you soon.