Watch the latest video produced by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s “Deep and Wide Initiative, in which Riverside Presbyterian Church, a new church development, demonstrates how it continually transforms itself to be a missional congregation.
New Church Development Training
for Church and Presbytery Teams
November 3-5 2010
Hosted by: Riverside Presbyterian Church
Sterling, VA
Discern the core values and plans for ministry, outreach and leadership for starting a church today. The “New Church Development Training for Church and Presbytery Teams” event at Riverside Presbyterian Church will focus on the of Starting New Churches resource.
For more information, go here.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.
Calvary Baptist Church
123 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
(from the website)
The objective of Movement Day is to:
- Convene leaders from across Greater New York and other large cities to hear the trends related to cities, urban ministry, and urban leadership from the best Christian thinkers; to
- Study the best models of urban gospel movements; and to
- Collaborate in new ways to reach and renew our metropolitan communities.
Movement Day is an invitation-only opportunity to be a part of an historic gathering of leaders learning from one another across our largest cities in North America.
For more information, go here.
“Believe it or not, traditional mainline churches are now showing signs of new life. New-church developments are springing up all across the country. But they do require a special sort of pastor to lead them. What kinds
of leaders are actually spearheading this exciting movement?
Extraordinary Leaders in Extraordinary Times is an illuminating study of the most successful pastors of new churches in seven American mainline denominations. Four expert scholars — H. Stanley Wood, Carl S. Dudley, Darrell L. Guder, and Robert S. Hoyt—carefully analyze the results of a comprehensivesurvey of more than 700 founding pastors of new-church developments. The insights distilled here draw a blueprint for successful ministry to the unchurched in the twenty-first century.”
Summer Internship – Bend, Oregon
The Trailhead, a non-traditional ministry in Bend, Oregon, seeks summer intern(s) to participate in a groundbreaking opportunity in New Church Development of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The intern(s) will work with Rev. Zach Hancock to establish this ministry through entrepreneurial effort that involves creating and managing an organic, locally sourced, ‘common table’ café, that will serve food/beverage and be the site of live music, guest speakers, opportunities for service to the community, other events, etc.
The intern(s) will be person(s) desiring to be involved in active expression of the Kingdom of God, as well as the desire to experiment with what it means for Church to gather in alternative, unorthodox, meaningful, dynamic ways that does not look like religious rite but practical action, not leading with words as much as deeds and contribution to the community. The intern(s) will be passionate about the transforming good news of Christ, while pursuing and developing his/her spiritual life, and have a passion about the spiritual searching of people, especially young adults whose backgrounds include difficult experiences, or no experience, with the traditional church.
Bend, OR is a city of 80,000+, set in the high desert of Central Oregon, situated at the foot of the Cascade Mountain Range (Portland, OR is a 2 ½-3 hour drive). Bend is a hotbed for outdoor pursuits, including: rock climbing (Smith Rock), mountain biking, Nordic skiing, Alpine skiing, trail running, kayaking, fly-fishing, etc. Young adults tend to be drawn to Central Oregon for recreational pursuits and work in tourism and the outdoors. Bend is home to Central Oregon Community College and the Cascades branch of Oregon State University.
The intern(s) will have housing provided (but could opt to pay for their own housing). The intern(s) will need personal support or a part-time job to cover food and other expenses (transportation, entertainment, etc.).
For further information regarding the opportunity and information about the intern supervisor (Zach Hancock), please contact:
Rev. Zach Hancock
970-347-7457
* Applications are available from Rev. Hancock, to be submitted by March 31st, 2010. Selection(s) will be made by April 30th, 2010. Dates of internship are negotiable, however the expectation will be two months or more.
Camino de Vida is a New Church Development sponsored by the ELCA and PCUSA and was funded by the Synod of the Southwest.
World Christian Discipleship: an internship in missional leadership in Pittsburgh.
WCD is designed for young adults who are interested in discerning and preparing for Christian vocation, regardless of occupation (pastor, lawyer, teacher, church planter, aid worker, etc.). The program is non-traditional and experiential. Participants will live a simple life in community with others whole serving the East End neighborhood and select local churches. They will regularly reflect on Scripture and the great interpreters of the faith. The community of about 12 will be a diverse ethnic community from across the nation, committed to living according to a religious rule, remaining accountable to one another, while exploring the global needs of the Church.
Participants will work 15-20 hours per week in local business as a missional presence in the East End, and they will serve in an urban church plant or church in redevelopment.
Applications, Questions, and more info at: www.worldmissioninitiative.org/wcd
Another coaching resource for Church Planters.
“DNA Coaching offers a wide variety of services including the coaching of leaders, the coaching of churches, working with judicatories to create healthy church planting systems, working with judicatories to foster transformation among existing churches, coaching new church start projects, performing statistical analysis of the results of a group of churches on the Church Transformation Survey, leading workshops and training events, consulting with churches (individually and/or in clusters), facilitating the Natural Church Development process in churches, assisting with the formation of selection criteria for leaders, assessing church planters and creating custom training and research materials.”
Back in early 2008, we held a gathering for NCD pastors and their teams in Indianapolis, IN. The key note speaker was a new church pastor from Chicago, named Daniel Hill. A dynamic speaker and teacher, Daniel captivated us for our time together. We have captured, most we hope, of Daniel’s keynotes and hope you will enjoy them as much as we did. We’re still making sure all the videos work and are in the right order so if you find something amiss, please let us know.
From our sisters and brothers in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination: here is a manual designed to help churches “plant” new churches. This manual walks churches through the discernment process and also addresses many of the fears and concerns churches may have about planting a new church. As with all of our resources we post from other denominations: some of the information and polity is not applicable to the PC(USA). The idea and mission, however, is universal.
Click here to download the document (.pdf file).
