10 best resource websites on simple church planting
We tried to identify the best simple church English resource websites that we know of about simple church and church planting movements. All of these websites are active information hubs with practical resources on how to plant new simple churches and facilitate church planting movements. A few of the websites are blogs, others are real resource websites.
1. CPM Training Resources
What is a Church Planting Movement (CPM)? What are the key characteristics of a CPM? This website will help you to be trained to prepare your mission field so that a CPM can happen. A website full of audio, video and practical resources. CPM Training Resources is set up by David & Paul Watson. They have a lot of experience in training leaders and planting simple churches.
2. Touchpoint
Want to learn from an expert? David Watson is one of them. He trained a lot of leaders who started together more than 100.000 churches through CPM’s across the world. Learn from his insights on topics as evangelism, simple church planting, mentoring and training leaders, discipleship and contextualisation.
3. Everyday Disciples
A great website by Paul Watson with mainly short video’s on principles of a disciple making movement. Video’s about making disciples, evangelism and starting simple churches. Paul Watson’s passion is to see disciple making movements happen all over the world. He focusses mainly on reaching the online generation through websites and social channels.
4. Floyd and Sally McClung
How to make disciples? How to start a CPM? How do you train leaders? Floyd shares in video’s, audio and articles on these topics. Floyd is working in South Africa to train leaders, plant new churches, make disciples and spread the love of Jesus to all nations.
5. Movements That Change The World
On Steve Addison’s blog you will find everything about movements. Inspiring stories from the field, practical insights on how to start a movement, provoking thoughts about making disciples and movements and many more. Steve’s calling is to spark church planting movements, everywhere. He has been a life-long student of movements that renew and expand the Christian faith. Steve distills the characteristics of dynamic movements and makes them available to leaders committed to the multiplication of disciple-making churches.
6. Felicity Dale’s blog
Felicity shares on her blog insights on simple church planting. From making disciples, to the Kingdom of God, to mentoring, to how to’s on simple church planting. She and her husband Tony lead House2House.
7. Resources House2House
House2house published a lot of resources on simple/house church the last years. Authors from everywhere in the world publish on their website and in their newsletters. Articles, video’s and audio about different topics.
8. Mentor and Multiply
One of the keys of multiplication is creating mentoring chains. Mentor and multiply gives you great resources on how to mentor leaders, make disciples and plant new churches. They provide free mentors that can help you along the way. All documents are also available in Spanish.
9. CMA Resources
On this website you will find encouraging articles, video’s and audio about making disciples, planting simple churches and training leaders. Neil Cole is a father and pioneer of the simple church movement. He has written Organic Church, Organic Leadership and Church 3.0.
10. Church Planting Movements
You will find best practices on CPM’s of the whole world on this website. Presentations about training leaders, reaching Muslims, CPM strategy of practitioners of CPM’s in the whole world.
