Resources

Support for Church Planters and Networks

Certificates & Courses

Fuller Church Planting Initiative's offers certificates and courses intended to train coaches and planters as well as add value to what you are already learning and the important work you are already doing.

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Church Planting Professional Certificate

Get Certified to Plant a Church. Each part of the Church Planting Professional Certificate has been designed by church planting experts to produce a deeper biblical theology, spiritual formation and missional competency. Learn more about the courses that compose the certificate content including Joining God’s Mission, Holistic Evangelism, Formation for Planters and more.

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Church Planter Coaching Certificate

Get Certified to Plant a Church. Each part of the Coaching Certificate has been designed by church planting experts to help you develop a trusted framework, grow your coaching practice and start healthier churches. There are seven interactive online courses, and for each course, coaching cohort members complete a workbook with feedback from Fuller staff.

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Church Planting Certificate Team Version

Train Your Whole Church Planting Team Church planting is a team sport, but often times training programs focus only on the church planter while neglecting the church planting team. The Team Version uses an abridged version of the same outstanding content and exercises from the Church Planting Certificate, allowing whole teams to learn together and live on mission together in their city. By completing one lesson and one exercise a week, over the course of a year the Team Version equips the whole team with the biblical, spiritual, and missional tools to plant a vibrant church together. Benefits of the Team Version for Church Planters Self-paced 7 interactive digital courses that busy team members can do on their own. Team Application Discuss and apply learnings at your church planting team meetings. Life Application Practical exercises to help the team live on mission. Discounts Discount for purchasing 10 copies of the Team Version

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Planting & Pastoring for Racial Justice

Leading Churches Toward Racial Justice

Live out God’s heart for justice in your church and community.

The urgency around ending systemic racism has never felt greater, while the church has seemed so ill-equipped to live out God’s vision for racial justice. How are God’s people called to respond? This course provides practical tools for pastors, planters, and church leaders to engage in racial justice at multiple levels: as an individual, in small groups, as a congregation, and as a coalition of churches and community organizations so that both the individual and systemic dimensions of racism are addressed.

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Planting a Church Without Losing Your Soul

What does it take to be a church planter or other ministry entrepreneur? Beyond the vocational capabilities every church planter needs, there’s a range of capabilities more difficult to measure but even more essential: spiritual competencies, which have to do not just with behaviors but also with the motivations, agendas, and scripts that drive them. This practical course helps planters invest in their own physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual health so they can serve Christ for the long haul.

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Articles

Enjoy professionally written content on important topics from FCPI staff, friends and supporters, church planters and our networks.

Access Delayed: The Church Planter’s Juneteenth

In the church planting world, there remains an urgent need for a new Juneteenth because often times planters of color, particularly African Americans, continue to experience delays…

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PlanterMatch: No One Plants Alone

PlanterMatch: No One Plants Alone No one should plant alone. Church planting is one of the most difficult and lonely callings there is. Over and over I meet aspiring church…

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God’s Call to Serve the Least

I am the fruit of a church plant. After some time, God began opening doors for me to learn about following Jesus into areas of social justice. I attended trainings on human trafficking…

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Essentials For Church Planters Who Want To Start Well

Men and women who are drawn to the idea of planting their own church often do share certain commonalities. They are quite visionary, having big dreams…

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Valuing the Vision: Supporting Latino/a Church Planters

Accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior as an adult, attending Bible college and seminary, and serving within my Assemblies of God…

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Featured Networks

Each month, we send out newsletters with valuable information for church planters and networks and coaches. Often we feature a church planting network. Check them out!

Fuller De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute

The Fuller De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute primarily serves Pastors and Christian leaders seeking to bring change to their community…

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Passion2Plant

Passion2Plant is a church planting network that empowers people from diverse backgrounds to join God’s mission in their context…

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Association of Related Churches

ARC is a cooperative of independent churches from different denominations, networks, and backgrounds who strategically resource church planters and pastors to help them reach people with the message of Jesus. They help new churches get started and existing churches find their families…

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Great Commandment Network

Great Commandment Network is a global network empowering people to experience and reproduce great relationships through loving God and others.

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Other Resourses

Additional resources we think you'll find valuable.

Sent to Flourish

Sent to Flourish Church planting is hard work. Planters face a thousand pressures related to leadership, finances, identity, and more. Quick fixes don’t produce sustainability. How can church planters and their…

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PlanterMatch

PLANTERMATCH No one plants alone. In order to plant flourishing churches, leaders want the support of organizations and networks. In order to continue to thrive, church planting organizations and networks…

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Planting a Church Without Losing Your Soul

Planting a Church Without Losing Your Soul What does it take to be a church planter or other ministry entrepreneur? Most leaders start out with passion, a sense of calling,…

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