In addition to a pastor’s personal spiritual disciplines, we offer this model as standard practices for DCP churches and encourage the church to adopt it at the beginning.

RECOMMENDED CARE PRACTICES FOR ALL DCP PASTORS

Bless Every Home - A fantastic online tool to help you and your congregation map out your neighborhoods and pray for your neighbors.

The Exchange: A Blog by Ed Stetzer

Church Planting Supersite - a wealth of church resource links indexed by topic

"My Top Ten Church Planting Tips" by Aaron Damiante

iDisciple - Church resources, articles, videos, sermons from leaders such as Andy Stanley, Ravi Zacharias, Tony Evans, Louie Giglio. Accounts are free for pastors.

Preach2Engage - Free monthly sermon outlines with full media elements.

Relevant Magazine - Life, God, Culture & Current Events

YouVersion - an excellent Bible app which includes reading plans

Bible Gateway - Online Bible with virtually every translation in most languages

Life Journal - an excellent tool by Wayne Cordeiro for daily devotions

Outreach.com - Outreach products, banners, print materials, etc. 

The Arda (Association of Religious Data Archives): At your fingertips, a wealth of demographic information about church affiliation and more in your city.

American Values Atlas - Excellent Demographics information

This is our detailed step by step guide for planting a church with Discover Church Planting.

How to design a proposal for Discover Church Planting

These will help walk the church planter through issues such as incorporation, Federal ID number, 501c3 status and reporting.

• Church Planting Administrative Steps (Simple) - DCP church
• Church Planting Administrative Steps (Simple) - Open Bible Church
• Church Planting Administrative Guide - Open Bible - detailed
• Reimbursement Request Form
• Church Planters' Monthly Report
  

• Developing Leaders - Tips on identifying & developing leaders
  
• Designing a Memorial Service
  
• How to Conduct a Wedding and Rehearsal
  
• Sample Budget Worksheet - How to draft a budget
• Funnel of Growth - A simple evaluative tool to get a clear picture of the makeup of your congregation and to consider the steps necessary to get to the next level. 
• Life Community Training Manual - This is one church's training for transitioning from a quarterly/interest-based small groups model to a relational/missional community model. 
  
• Writing a Leadership Covenant - Questions to consider when helping to define expectations and communicate with church leaders.
• Top Ten Church Planting Mistakes - by Jim Griffith and Bill Easum. These are common mistakes made by church planters. Avoid these and you will avoid a lot of heartache! This is a synopsis of the book that you can find here. 

Click the book icon for a list of recommended church planting books

Resources, Sermons, Articles and a free Pastoral Care Line staffed with professional, trained counselors - all designed to support pastors and their families.