Ethnic Church Planting
Funding Sources
The Mustard Seed Foundation awards grants to churches which meet these criteria:
"Churches that are in the toughest inner
city neighborhoods of: the inner city boroughs of NYC; inner city Chicago
and Washington DC; Los Angeles County; Miami/Dade County; Vancouver;
Toronto; Detroit; Philadelphia/Camden; SF/Oakland; Houston; and Montreal.
We will only be looking to partner with congregations with a parish
mentality, that are ministering to the homeless, gangs, mentally ill,
refugees, prostitutes, and addicts in obedience to scripture, in their own
specific neighborhoods. We will be looking to partner with multi-ethnic
local churches that are led by indigenous minority leadership."
Contact The Mustard Seed Foundation for more information.
Online Training
The International Mission Board (IMB) has produced a curriculum in English and Spanish, called Church Planting Movements, which includes articles, Powerpoint presentations and more. You can order the CD or download it FREE online!
Church Planting Links
The Urban Ministry Institute equips leadership for the urban church, especially among the poor.
Mis-Links offers thousands of mission-related links, including this excellent resource list for church planting.
The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has excellent online resources on how to plant ethnic churches.
Included is an article, "How to Participate in Multi-Ethnic Church Planting," by Russell Begaye as well as on-line brochures specific to each of the following ethnic groups: African Americans, Asians, Europeans, Hispanics, Mid-Easterners and Native Americans. The brochures are in the PDF format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader software (available free at the site).
NextChurch.org is a church-planting site which lists useful On-line Church Planting Resources.
Visit Ethnic Harvest's Links for Cross-Cultural Training for more church-planting related links.
Our Articles page also has related reading, including Urban Cross-Cultural Church Planting Models, by Jerry L. Appleby, reprinted with permission from Association of Nazarenes in Social Research.
 The Church Multiplication Training Center has trained planters and leaders in some 90 denominations or ministry agencies, offering training in English and Spanish, as well as training focused on the special needs of urban churches.
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Dr. Ralph F. Wilson offers practical advice for Restarting a Dead Church, in an article originally published in The Planter, August 1990, pp. 1-2.
"Kids Cost Money," another article by Dr. Wilson explains how church planting keeps our faith vital.
Church Planting Books
Follow the link to Amazon.com for descriptions and reviews. (If you choose to buy online, 5% of the price will help cover expenses of our ministry.)
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 Church Planting: Laying Foundations
by Stuart Murray,
J. Nelson Kraybill
Herald Press, 2001
No reader reviews |
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Planting Churches Cross-Culturally:
North America and Beyond
by David Hesselgrave
Baker Book House, 2000
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Church Planting for a Greater Harvest:
A Comprehensive Guide
by C. Peter Wagner
Regal Books, 1990
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Church Planting in the African-American Context
by Hozell C. Francis
Zondervan Publishing House, 1999
No reader reviews |
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Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century:
A Comprehensive Guide for New Churches and Those Desiring Renewal
by Aubrey Malphurs,
Aubrey Talphurs,
Joe Aldrich
Baker Book House, 1990
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One New People:
Models for Developing a Multiethnic Church
by Manuel Ortiz
Intervarsity Press, 1996
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A Heart for the City:
Effective Ministries to the Urban Community
by John Fuder (Editor)
Moody Press, 2000
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Planting and Growing Urban Churches:
From Dream to Reality
by Harvie M. Conn (Editor)
Baker Book House, 1997
No reader reviews |
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Planning Strategies for Evangelism
by Edward Dayton
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990
No reader reviews |
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Growing the World's Largest Church
by Karen Hurston
Gospel Pub House, 1994
This is the story of the growth of the world's largest church in Seoul, Korea, with concrete, transferable church growth ideas that can work in any church's cell groups. |
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Indigenous Church Planting,
a Practical Journey
by Charles Brock
Church Growth International, 1990
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Creating Communities of the Kingdom:
New Testament Models of Church Planting
by David W. Shenk and
Ervin R. Stutzman
Herald Press, 1988
No reader reviews |
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We Are the Church Together:
Cultural Diversity in Congregational Life
by Charles R. Foster
Theodore Brelsford
Trinity Pr Intl, 1996
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Planting Churches in Muslim Cities:
A Team Approach
by Greg Livingstone
Baker Book House, 1993
No reader reviews
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