1. Overview Four Stages Stage 1: Roots - Launch Team Gathering
Stage 2: Leaves - Preview
Stage 3: Branches – Weekly Worship
& Strengthening Core Ministries
Stage 4: Fruit - Launch

2. 6 Stage 1: Roots
Gathering the Launch Team
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3. 1. How to Find and Build a Strong Launch Team
Purposes of this Stage
Pray for Missional Christians
to join your launch team!
But also make room for non-believers to join in.
1. Increasing stability
2. Increasing strength
3. Increasing growth

4. The Launch Team a. Invite others b. Evangelism c. Core ministries
What They Do
a. Invite others
b. Evangelism
c. Core ministries
Your temptation will be to skip this stage and it will negatively impact the strength of your launch team!

5. The Launch Team a. Divine appointment
Where to Find Them
a. Divine appointment
b. Personal network and social networks
c. Parent church or partners
d. Friends of friends

6. 2. Key Strategies for Gathering and Building
a. Vision parties
Social networking
Bible Studies
d. Servant and community evangelism
Please take a few moments to
brainstorm who to invite and how to gather?

7. 3. Ideal Mix on the Launch Team
a. Grow to 30+
b. Team that is Reflective of your target
e.g. multi-ethnic or yr-olds or…
d. Luke sets the context for making disciples
c. Balanced Gifting
Love for kids, Cooking
Financial – Admin, Serving
Musical Gifts, Outreach

8. The Launch Team b. Core ministry team skills – break into the 5 teams
Training
Teach the vision –
t-shirt test
b. Core ministry team skills – break into the 5 teams
c. Pray and practice - reduces fear
d. List those you want to love and reach. You know more people than you think.

9. The Launch Team
Landmines
a. Tasks, not titles
b. Faithfulness and fruitfulness needs to be demonstrated.
c. Three “highly” people who may come
Missional, Needy, or Controlling
You will find which they are through faithfulness and fruitfulness in ministry tasks

10. 4. Examples from Plants
Fountain of Life – Launch Team

11. Here are our 3-5 Key Gathering Activities Develop a planning calendar for the next 3-4 months. See ideas in chapter 6, pp. 22, 23, 27 of resource manual

12. 6 Roots
Building a Healthy Launch Team
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