Baptist Convention of Maryland/Deleware

Spring Date: March 2-3, 2012, 9:30am - 4:30pm

Registration Deadline: February 15, 2012

Fall registration is not currently active.

Fall Date: November 2-3, 2012, 9:30am - 4:30pm

Registration Deadline: October 12, 2012

Cost: $99.00 per Church Plant

Location:
Baptist Mission Resource Center
10255 Old Columbia Rd
Columbia, MD 21046

Register Online: See registration form at bottom of page

Event Summary:
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 (in fact, it’s in our Church Planter’s Covenant). Your Spouse, Coach, and Key Leaders are encouraged to attend with you. The registration fee will provides all of the training, the materials, meals and a one-year subscription to the Next Steps files for personal use at CoachNet online.

Vision/Goals

Our vision is to facilitate a church multiplication movement of healthy, harvest-focused and reproducing churches…we believe that to accomplish this vision God will lead us in starting more than twenty new churches every year from now until 2012, and beyond…

Strategy

Our strategy is a seven-step process:

• First, there is preparation.  This includes prayer efforts and site location, which is usually determined by Associational Directors of Missions or Parent Churches.  
  
• The second step is partnership, where a parent church, along with the association and even potentially other congregations or organizations, joins the new church planting efforts.  
  
• Third, there is recruitment of potential church planters.  Discovery Tools and Assessment Centers help evaluate potential planters. 
  
• Fourth, we provide comprehensive training, beginning with Boot Camp/Basic Training experiences for planters and their spouses.  
  
• The fifth step is nurture and support for the planter and his family.  This includes a coach and mentor, peer learning clusters known as “Church Planter Networks” and “C. P. Spouse Networks”, and fellowship opportunities.  
  
• Sixth, we focus on evaluation, and we do this through “check ups” over the course of the foundational development of the new church.  
  
• Finally, there is reproduction, in which church plants are prepared to become “parent churches” themselves.
  

Our Church Multiplication Team, made up of planters, parent church pastors, associational directors of missionaries and state staff, help facilitate this church multiplication movement.

No top down hierarchy here!