• Church planting using lay people and lay church planting teams
  • Intro
  • Using this Tool
  • Climate Building
  • Identification, Discovery & Enlistment
  • Building Support Systems
  • Equiping & Training
  • Reproduction
  • CP Strategy
  • An Adult Strategy for Lay Church Planting: Group Discovery Guide
  • An Adult Strategy for Lay Church Planting: Participant's Guide
     
• Multi-housing Church Planting Creating Community: We Call It Church
  • Relationships
  • Things To Remember When Meeting/Talking With Owners/Managers
  • Multi-housing Community Survey
  • Multi-housing Owners/Managers Fellowship
  • Owners/Managers Survey
  • Community Power Point Presentation
  • Church planting in multi-housing settings
     
• Church Planting in Town & Country Settings
  • Church planting in Town & Country settings
  • Contact list for Town & Country settings

Other Resources

Some general helps for all kinds of non-traditional church planting:

• Test Your Church Planting Attitude
   
• NEW CHURCHES NEEDED: Step-by-step Handbook for Planting New Churches
   
• Why consider this kind of church planting? This position paper will help answer this question.
   
• What is lay-led and non-traditional church planting all about?
   
• What is important in lay church planting? Core Values for lay church planting.

The following resources are Power Point presentations:

• Church Planting Movements
• Non-Traditional Church Planting

T & C National Team Contact List

• Western Region Volunteer Consultant
  TOM L. BACON
  1889 Tuolumne Dr.
  Reno NV 89523
  Home: (775) 746-4315
  TLbacon55@cs.com
  Tom Bacon is serving as a Western Region Volunteer Town and Country Church Planting Consultant.
  
  He returned September, 2002 as missionary of the North American Mission Board's Church Planting Group serving as Director of Missions and Brotherhood for the Nevada State Convention.
  
  Before appointment by the Home Mission Board, he served pastorates in California and Nevada, including two bi-vocational pastorates.
  
  A native of Texas, Bacon is a graduate of California Baptist College and Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
  
  He and his wife, the former Thelma Clamp have four children: Charles, Tom, Michael, and Gladys.
  
   

If we can help you in your church planting ministry, please let us know.  We also look forward to your helping others in their church planting journey as we work together.  God Bless!