Ministry & Church Planting

Starting a new church or ministry can be the most rewarding thing that you can do to advance the kingdom. It can also be very stressful at times, especially if you are pioneering the work without a core group or the support of another church or ministry.

Making sure your marriage and family are strong are the most important things to consider before starting a new ministry. If things are not going well at home, things won't go well with your new church plant.

Listed below are a few guides and articles that will help you decide when and how to start your new ministry.

 Church Planting:

• The Beginner's Guide to Church Planting: Everything you need to get started.
• Are You Called to Be a Church Planter? A study conducted by Dr. Charles Ridley.
• The House Church: A look at house churches in the United States.
• 20 Steps to Planting and Growing a Church: Great advice from Dr. Paul E. Paino.
• Church Planting Self Assessment: An excellent self assessment guide in PDF format.

 Lifestyle & Personal Growth:

• Pastoral Prisons: Various prisons that ministers often find themselves in.
• Hot Sex and The Evangelical Church: An important topic for all Christians.
• Do You Need Formal Training? A guide to obtaining training for the ministry.

 Tutorials

 How to Use Google Adsense to Generate Income for Your Ministry

Google Adsense is a wonderful way to generate extra income for your church or ministry. The income that it generates will help not only to cover the costs to maintain your website, but it will also provide your readers with a huge variety of targeted resources.  Read more 

 How to Use Craigslist to Promote Your Church or Ministry

Craigslist.org is a virtual garage sale, community portal, and job database that was started by a man named Craig Newmark in 1995. Craigslist offers free listings for cities in all 50 states and in over 50 countries.  Read more 

 How to Use MySpace to Promote Your Non-Profit Organization

MySpace is a social phenomenon that reportedly has over 50 million registered users. It has been estimated that only about 18% of the registered users actually return and use MySpace after signing up. Even with only 18% of those registered using MySpace, the number of page views it receives each day is enormous!  Read more 

 Ministry & Church Planting Links:

• Internal Revenue Service (IRS): Everything you need to know.
• U.S. Census Bureau: Provides population statistics and economic data for your area.
• Outreach Marketing: This site offers tons of creative church advertising products.
• Church Marketing Solutions: They offer free demographic reports and more.
• Acculeads: Very reasonably priced targeted mailing lists and marketing tools.
• Christsites.com: One of the prettiest Christian search engines on the web.
• Mislinks.org: A large database of church planting and mission organizations.
• Newchurches.com: A very nice site which includes discussion groups.
• Church Planter's Paradise: Helps church planters find church planting opportunities.
• Acts29network.org: A church planting peer-to-peer network.