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Developing your church plant launch team
Episode 85th June 2018 • Unfiltered: Real Church Planting Conversations • Converge
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A healthy launch team goes a long way in planting a healthy church. Church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee discuss the importance of a strong launch team when church planting and how to start and utilize your team.

1:15 - Lee and Danny discuss differences between "launch team" and "core team"

3:45 - Danny talks about his launch team experience, what worked and what didn't work

5:40 - Danny discusses the importance of having Christians and non-Christians on the launch team

7:26 - Danny shares ways to help people transition from another church to your launch team in a healthy way

9:24 - Lee shares four reasons why people leave a church, and why it's important for those reasons to not get in the way if serving on a church plant's launch team

10:25 - Danny and Lee talk about the need for a church planter to have a real relationship with other pastors in the community, even though established pastors might see you as a threat

11:37 - Lee discusses the need to have the right people on the launch team and protecting your church's DNA

13:53 - Lee talks about his launch team development and the timeline in relation to his church's launch

15:59 - Lee and Danny discuss why a church plant should have a minimum number of people in order to launch the church

18:44 - Lee and Danny discuss attrition rates on launch teams and why church planters lose launch team members

20:54 - Danny and Lee talk about what they wish they'd known earlier about sending and releasing people from a launch team

22:47 - Lee and Danny discuss how often his launch team met during the early phase of the church planting process and what the meetings looked like

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