Books for All Church Planters - The Basics of Cross-Cultural Church Planting
A Vision of the Possible: Pioneer Church Planting in Teams
Daniel Sinclair. 2005.
Indigenous Church Planting: A Practical Journey
Charles Brock. 1994.
Down-to-earth, practical information and guidance for planting churches from someone who has done a LOT of it..
Church Multiplication Guide : Helping Churches to Reproduce Locally and Abroad
George Patterson & Richard Scoggins. 2002.
Principles by which to multiply churches. Or try William Carey Library .
David Garrison. 2000.
A ground-breaking booklet on how to work towards the planting of many churches rapidly. Chuch planting movements are, in a nutshell, churches planting churches planting churches quickly. Several recent case studies from around the world are described, and the principles extracted.
Can be read online at : http://www.missionfrontiers.org/2000/02/cpm1.htm
Passing the Baton: Church Planting that Empowers
Tom Steffen. 1997.
Highlights the phase-out process and role changes a church planter goes through. The main idea is that effective church planters start with the end in mind, and keep stepping back so that national leaders can continue reproducing churches. Has some great insights on evangelism, discipleship, and training leaders.Try William Carey Library if link above does not help.
Dick Scoggins. Could also be entitled "Planting House Churches in Networks." A comprehensive discussion of principles and studies used by the Fellowship of Church Planters in its work in planting house churches.
Master Builder: A Biblical Guide for Church Planters
Brian Woodford. 2002.
This is a special downloadable version of Brian Woodford's book on church planting. In it, he explains and develops a five-room model of the church. This is very helpful for church planters who are thinking about the kind of church they want to plant, as well as those who want to evaluate the church(es) they are involved in establishing. download (281kb MS Word Document)
Melvin Hodges. 1953, but into its 10th printing. An absolute classic, and must-read.
Planting Churches Cross-Culturally, 2 ed.
David Hesselgrave. 2000.
Classic text. Takes you through the phases of church planting. Updated in 2000. Easy to get lost in the details. Features the Pauline Cycle.
The Missionary Training Series - click on link to ask for more details and how the Missionary Training Service can get this to you
The Missionary Training Service has developed training booklets which can be of significant help to mission agencies as well as local churches which want to train and send church planters.
"The Missionary Training Guide" -- an activity based approach for preparing missionaries
"Unreached Peoples of the World"
"The Missionary Team" -- guidelines for a missionary team
"The Effective Missionary Sending Church"
and many other titles . . .
Best Books for ALL Church Planters