Steps to Becoming a Church Planter

1. Connect with one of our 14 Regional Leaders

• Arizona
• Great Lakes (Wisconsin & Upper Michigan)
• Heartland(North & South Dakota, Kansas & Nebraska)
• Iowa 
• Michigan
• MidAmerica (Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky Tennessee & Arkansas)
• MidAtlantic (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Maryland, & North Carolina)
• Minnesota
• Northeast(New York, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island)
• PacWest ( Northern California, Hawaii)
• Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska)
• Rocky Mountain (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah & Nebraska)
• Southwest (Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas)
• Southeast (Caribbean, Florida, Georgia)
• For states not listed here contact our national director Gary Rohrmayer gary@convergeusa.org

2. Send them a Resume, and three samples of your preaching (Video is best, links or Cd's)

3. Fill out an Church Planting application which you will receive from the sending agencies.

4. Participate in a pre-assessment interview with your sending agency.

5. Have your sending agency sign up you up at least 45 days prior to the next Assessment Center.

6. Prepare to bring your A game to the Assessment Center.

• 20 minute mini sermon
• 20 minute philosophy of ministry presentation

7. Select a Location (Church Planters are called to an community. Pastors are call to a community of believers)

8. Write a Church Planting Proposal or Business Plan

9. Participate in an Expectations Interview.

10. Receive a Formal Call to be a church planter from your sending agency.

11. Attend a FirstSteps for Planting a Missional Church Seminar

12. Start raising funds.

13. Secure a church planting coach.

14. Start your church planting journey.

Ed Stetzer on his New Churches website offers the following steps for planting a church. HT

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11. Attend a FirstSteps for Planting a Missional Church Seminar

12. Start raising funds.