Planting Churches among the City's Poor - Volume 1

14 • P LANTING C HURCHES AMONG THE C ITY ’ S P OOR : V OLUME 1

Volume Two, Part I: Coaching Urban Church Planters , addresses the specific nature of coaching and mentoring church plant leaders and their teams, and seeks to give a broad, compelling outline of the kinds of issues, concerns, and commitments necessary for mentors to understand and do as they coach teams that plant effective churches. And Volume Two, Part II: The Church Planting Toolkit , provides a potpourri of miscellaneous articles, graphs, documents, and information relevant to planting a church, including information about financial, state relations, leadership development, forming associations, and equipping for reproduction in church planting movements. In this section you will find abundant particular resources all meant to be helpful for planters, coaches, and associations who desire to plant healthy churches among the poor, both cross-culturally and intra-culturally. These many helps will readily inform your thinking about the nature of planting the individual congregation, forming the structures of a healthy church planting movement, empowering leadership for repro duction, and advancing the Kingdom among the poor in the city. A Loosely Categorized Collection In order to aid you in your search for articles and materials that can prove helpful to your inquiries, we have grouped the various items under categories for easier reference. However, because the graphics them selves relate to a host of questions and contexts, you may find that many of the materials can speak to a number of themes, and not merely the category under which they were originally placed. While the categories are helpful, they ought not to be viewed as authoritative or final. For instance, many of the graphics will undoubtedly speak to a number of different concepts, overlapping between the fields of church planting and coaching church planters, and/or relevant to the design and argument of viable models and theologies that can help us engage the complexity and promise of our unreached urban neighborhoods. So, when you are perusing this volume, remember to use the table of contents first as a good guide to provide direction to a particular grouping of resources, but also remember that the materials are grouped in a more-or-less generic fashion, and that the materials will have multiple applications, covering a wide range of issues and topics. Do not hesitate to explore different graphics and articles, reading them in new and different contexts than the one we suggest. As a good solid rule, check the table of contents first, but, as you actually look at the resource, think in terms of what other contexts this item might refer to and provide insight into the concepts you explore.