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World Mission Associates
Promotes self-reliance and local leadership for churches through a video series, articles, and seminars.
Vineyard National Church Planting Task Force
http://www.vineyardusa.org/site/task-forces/church-planting
Publishes a quarterly church planting newsletter and offers articles and resources for prospective and established church planters.
Timothy Ministries
Timothy Ministries offers interim pastorates, short-term missionaries, workshops and seminars. Includes historical and contact information.
The Bible League of Canada
Christian organization offering church planting, training, and resources for missions abroad.
Project World Reach: Train & Multiply
Canadian charity features New Testament methods to train church leaders that combines pastoral and leadership training with church planting and development.
Press On Ministries
Dave and Claudia Barba. Assisting in church planting and revival. Provides ministry information, schedule, newsletter, and contacts.
Passion for Church Planting
http://www.passionforplanting.com/
Provides resources and support services to establish new churches. Features marketing services, workshops and conferences, forums, and consultations.
North American Church Multiplication Institute
http://multiplication-training.org/
A ministry of the Sandberg Leadership Center at Ashland Theological Seminary, offering assessments, training, symposiums, coaching and research.
NewChurches
Information about church planting assessments, legal issues, church types, and discussion forums.
New Church Initiatives
http://www.newchurchinitiatives.org/
Provides coaching, online training, live seminars, assessment, and networking to church planters.
NCD Consulting, Inc.
http://www.newchurchstarts.com/
Consultants providing church demographics, church restarts or leadership development to churches, denominations, and church planting organizations.
Ministers take leap of faith as more new churches take root
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/apr/02/ministers-take-leap-of-faith-as-more-new-churches-/
Church planting, or starting from scratch, is a slow, difficult process that can provide rich rewards, reports The Tampa Tribune.
Mentor & Multiply
http://mentorandmultiply.homestead.com/
A training program for new pastors and church planters designed by Dr. George Patterson.
Mediastrategy.org
Free downloadable book and additional resources for church marketing and media use in the developing world.
Kainos Enterprises
Facilitates church planting in Canada and the U.S. by performing aspects of ministry on a church's behalf. Features overview of services and fund-raising information.
International Mission Board: Church Planting Movements
Features a free online booklet from the Southern Baptist Convention on the Church Planting Movement.
Incarnate Network
Contains analysis of trends, church planting stories, members area, and ways to get involved in the physical life of the network.
Foursquare Church Multiplication
http://reachmore.foursquare.org/
Features church planting resources, including a self-assessment quiz, life cycle information, demographics, and spiritual gifts tests.
Evangelism and Church Planting in North America
NAMB study of the state of church planting activity, including updated demographic information.
European Partners In Christ (EPIC)
Links churches in the UK with churches in Eastern Europe on a one-to-one basis.
Ethnic Harvest: Resources for Multicultural Ministry
Organization provides resources and information to establish partnerships between ethnic and anglo churches on how to plant ethnic churches in North America.
Elmer Towns - Spiritual Breakthroughs
Provides resources to help start and grow new churches. Contains free books for the study of church growth, Christian education, Bible study and exposition, and Christian life.
Dynamic Church Planting International
Christian organization based in Oceanside, California, conducts training and produces resources to equip leaders in their efforts to plant churches.