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Funding: Partnerships Matter

It goes without saying that a church multiplication movement will be fueled by a variety of resources – including money.  Leadership Network has found that just over 25% of protestant churches in the United States have been involved in helping to fund a church plant (or planter) in the last year.  Some of the most aggressive churches “tithe” to church planting through assigning 10%+ of their overall budget to domestic church planting.  Also, most church planters do receive some denominational funding, but more money from a national denomination/agency actually results in less money from churches at the local level.  In fact, most denominations are spending more time in recruiting parent churches to support church planting directly, rather than in direct fundraising.  These parent churches are giving more money to church planting, but the most aggressive are giving that money to more planters.  Rather than large investments in just a few places, aggressive churches seed many projects to help church plants start alongside denominational funds, personal fundraising and tithing by the planter and church planting team.  One church, Hill Country Bible Church, takes the approach of providing a paid residency for church planters and then encouraging the planter to enlist 10-12 families as “missionaries” to help start the new church with a commitment to fund the new work through their tithes.  Across the board, “a multi-stream approach to securing income for the church plant seems to be the most effective.” Research indicates that agencies and denominations should provide well-trained planters with a modest funding package over a short period of time.  This will help the church plant get started, but will encourage the planter to aggressively develop the church without becoming overly dependent on outside funding. 

Posted on August 9, 2010

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