On This Rock - A Church Planting Sampler

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Source: The Evangel Dean Handbook, pp. 133-139

E. What is Evangel School of Urban Church Planting, Dean Training?

The Evangel Dean School of Urban Church Planting equips church plant trainers (Deans) to host an Evangel School of Urban Church Planting in their city. Dean Teams who enlist and complete our church plant “Basic Training” will be qualified to attend our “Boot Camp,” i.e., The Evangel Dean School of Urban Church Planting. At Boot Camp, Dean Teams who successfully complete our spiritual, strategic, and tactical training will be certified to train urban church planters and their team to plant healthy, multiplying churches among the poor. Our Evangel School of Urban Church Planting trains church planters to plant healthy churches from and for the city’s poor, applying biblical wisdom in order to effectively evangelize, equip, and empower unreached city folk to respond to the love of Christ, and take their place in representing Christ’s Kingdom where they live and work. Ripe for Harvest: A Guidebook for Planting Healthy Churches in the City , the official text of the Evangel School, outlines a process of church planting that respects the unique cultures, environments, communities, and situations reflected in urban America. The PLANT approach outlined here provides practically wise and spiritually vital instruction for urban church planting teams. Filled with devotionals, seminars, exercises, and worksheets, with dozens of graphics, diagrams, and articles, this rich resource will empower church planting teams to design a strategy consistent with the vision God has given them – the kind of strategy that results in the creation of healthy, Kingdom-declaring churches, and the launch of reproducing church planting movements. F. What is the Evangel School of Urban Church Planting?

G. For more church planting resources from TUMI go to: www.tumi.org/churchplanting .