Chicago is the third largest city in the United States with an MSA that includes 9.5 million people. Although the…
The number of churches who are reproducing is increasing. A new study from Exponential by LifeWay Research discovered the number of churches reproducing is…
Send Institute Most Read Articles of 2018 At the Send Institute, we have a goal to provide dependable research, content, and learning communities for church planting leaders as they create more effective church planting strategies for today and tomorrow. Looking back through our articles in 2018, we highlighted missiologists and practitioners who explored topics dealing with
Are we seeing the shift from addition to multiplication reflected in church planting systems and structures? When Ed Stetzer wrote what was the first edition of Planting Missional Churches, he originally named it Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age. But postmodern terminology only lasted a few years before quickly disappearing. Instead, the publishers renamed
The Send Institute partnered with Church Planting Leadership Fellowship to launch the 2018 Bi-Vocational Church Planting Research Project. The history of church planting in…
Scattering Gospel Seeds: Moments & Conversations By Cas Monaco and Gary Runn (Doctor of Ministry, Cru Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives) In a recent…
The Send Institute will be releasing a full report on Best Practices in Church Planting Systems With Particular Attention to Church Planting Churches. In this report, we will share best practices in church planting systems as well as the organizational shifts necessary to see denominations and networks move beyond addition into multiplication. As a preview
Why We All Need to Care About Church Planting Research By Rob Hoskins and Tena Stone Research is one of the most powerful, but…
Bill Bright (1921–2003) founded Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) on the UCLA campus in 1951 with the primary goal of reaching university student leaders…
By Lisa Cannon Green originally posted at LifeWay Research. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – America is launching new Protestant churches faster than it loses old ones, attracting…