Leave Your Daughter Church Planters with Authority and Responsibilities

 

Welcome to Multiply, a podcast for Village Church Planters, Pastors and Christian leaders and I am your host today, Daneille Snowden.

To be effective is to be productive, efficient, and even skilled. This is what we do when we pour into the lives of our church planters who are beginning to plant a new church. Trained, experienced church planters and trainers have learned that this is completed successfully, by using a four-step process. Our goal overall is to have good-strong church planters, as the church of Jesus Christ needs more powerful leaders for God’s Kingdom.

The four-step process begins with us modelling before our perspective leader, by being an exceptional example. They will observe our prayers, how we find persons of peace, tell good Bible stories and simply watch us share the Good News with others.

Then we move to the second step, which is assisting our new leaders, as we stay close by them as we go. In this step, we give them plenty of opportunities to minister in the capacities we serve as church planters. As we assist, we simply guide in certain areas that need help and we always affirm them!

The third step in the four-step process is to watch our new leader, as we are still present with them. This even builds the confidence of our students, as they are doing the work.

Lastly, we leave! Sometimes, this is not easy to do. Yet, as we come to this step, we as the mentor have confidence this new leader is ready. We let them go, doing the work God has led & equipped them to do.

This process was important in our first and second generation church plants, and it is even more important to continue within our all our daughter church plants.

Let us continue to hold to this vision, filled also with God’s heart for the Gospel to be preached to all people in all places!

Thank you for listening, and now please share this word of encouragement with others. Find us on Facebook at: ‘Encouragement for Village Church Planters.’ Also, click-on (or find) our website www.vcpencouragement.org. Thank you and God bless!

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