“Practical Project Management
for Church Planting Endeavors”
CPS Process
The Start Up Phase
In the Start Up phase the Planting Team begins to execute the plan that has been formulated in the first three phases. Many church planters would consider this phase the start of the “real work” of planting new churches because it lays the groundwork for engaging the community in which the church is being planted. Some would even consider the planning, preparation, and reviews of the earlier phases to be obstacles to overcome in order to get to the Start Up Phase. However, the benefits of exercising patience and discipline by crafting a sound, executable, and realistic Mission Plan become apparent very quickly in this phase. A Planting Team that bypasses all or part of the first three phases and makes this phase the starting point for a church plant is destined to make serious and costly (and perhaps even fatal) errors. Up to this point in the CPS process the work planned for a given phase was relatively simple. Its simplicity was rooted in the small number of people involved, the short duration required for the work, and the process providing clearly defined tasks. The work planned for the Start Up Phase and subsequent phases is comparatively complex. It involves a greater number of people participating in the effort, longer timeframes for completing the planned work, and tasks that are unique to a particular church planting endeavor.
Church Planting Stewardship
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CPS Process
The Start Up Phase
In the Start Up phase the Planting Team begins to execute the plan that has been formulated in the first three phases. Many church planters would consider this phase the start of the “real work” of planting new churches because it lays the groundwork for engaging the community in which the church is being planted. Some would even consider the planning, preparation, and reviews of the earlier phases to be obstacles to overcome in order to get to the Start Up Phase. However, the benefits of exercising patience and discipline by crafting a sound, executable, and realistic Mission Plan become apparent very quickly in this phase. A Planting Team that bypasses all or part of the first three phases and makes this phase the starting point for a church plant is destined to make serious and costly (and perhaps even fatal) errors. Up to this point in the CPS process the work planned for a given phase was relatively simple. Its simplicity was rooted in the small number of people involved, the short duration required for the work, and the process providing clearly defined tasks. The work planned for the Start Up Phase and subsequent phases is comparatively complex. It involves a greater number of people participating in the effort, longer timeframes for completing the planned work, and tasks that are unique to a particular church planting endeavor.
