May 7th and 8th
9:30am until 4:00pm (both days)
Baptist Mission Resource Center
10255 Old Columbia Rd
Columbia, MD 20723
Next Steps for Church Planters is the NEW SEQUEL to Basic Training and provides a comprehensive review of your church’s health and vitality coming out of your first year in ministry, post-launch. Our Convention requires all funded church planters to attend it as a part of a first annual evaluation of where your new church is “at” and where it’s going.
The content of this training is built around the eight “healthy church” characteristics of Natural Church Development. In coordination with the NCD Survey, it will help you evaluate and know where to apply your efforts and energies in the coming year for maximum impact. You are encouraged to have completed the NCD survey with 30 of your key leaders at least two weeks (but no more than three months) before attending this training. The information on this report will help you analyze the health of your church and, with this training, will enable you to develop a prescription for strengthening your new church qualitatively. We believe this will also result in greater growth quantitatively over time.
The cost per person is $99.00. This provides for all of the training, the materials, meals and a one-year subscription to the Next Steps files for personal use at CoachNet online. Additionally, if you want to purchase the NCD survey because you are desiring to do so for help in applying the training from this event, we will offer that tool to you at a subsidized cost of only $100.00. Regularly, if purchased for required use with funding renewals or grant opportunities, there is a cost to your church of $200.00 for this tool, so this is a great way to get the tool at a dramatically reduced rate along with training on how to implement its results effectively in a church plant setting.
Your coach, spouse or even a key lay leader can attend with you.
Of course, housing options are at your own additional cost if you choose to stay in this area, and a list of hotels can be provided. Sorry, but children are not permitted.
To register fill out the form below. Registration is limited only to invitees, so please respond with names of those attending by April 1st as plans need to be made for the events.