Multihousing Church PlantingThe Church That Meets At The House

Readiness

Readiness The Church Planting Process

“Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their own necks for my life, to who not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. Likewise greet the church that is in their house.”

Romans 16:3-5

Readiness

“Hear the cries of those who live in Multihousing”

Then Jesus made a circuit of all the towns and villages. He taught in their meeting places, reported kingdom news, and healed their diseased bodies, healed their bruised and hurt lives. When he looked out over the crowds, his heart broke. So confused and aimless they were, like sheep with no shepherd, the overlooked and ignored.

Matthew 9:35-36 (The Message)

“What is worst than being lost?” Being lost and not having anyone looking for you.”

Chuck Kelly, NOBTS

Multihousing is multiple family communities. They may be attached or in close proximity with shared amenities and regulations.

Multihousing may look like this...

Private Apartment Communities

Multihousing may look like this…

Condominium Communities

Multihousing may look like this…

Community Associations

Multihousing may look like this…

Community Associations

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Manufactured Housing

Multihousing may look like this…

Public Housing Communities

Multihousing may look like this…

Senior Housing Communities

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Collegiate Housing Communities

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Gated Communities

Multihousing may look like this…

Marina Communities

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Live Work and Play Communities

Readiness

Multihousing Industry Categories A-Upper Income

B- Middle Income

C-Partially Subsidized

D-Fully Subsidized

National Multihousing Council

Readiness

The missing partner…

The church

North American Population

Canada: 32,795,223

United States: 300,933,719

333,728,942

57% of the North American population live in Multihousing communities

Readiness

This translates into a

Mutlihousing population of 190,225,497

Readiness

96% of multihousing community residents are unchurched

2001 NAMB Study

“If they won’t come to church, then we’ll take church to them.” Tillie Burgin

Tillie Burgin

Readiness

“Find out what their needs are…let’s be resident driven not church driven.”

Barbara Oden

Barbara Oden

Texas Multihousing Consulting

Daniel Sanchez, Houston

“Apartment Life is dedicated to helping you improve the quality of life and the value of your apartment communities. We look forward to serving you as together we transform apartment living in America!”

Stan Dobbs

Stan Dobbs

Apartment Life

Midtown BridgeAtlanta, Georgia

Larry Grays and family

Colorado Missional Multihousing Network

Bobby Dean

Scotty Brewer

Mission Raleigh, North Carolina

Community of Hope

Montgomery, Alabama

Chris McNairy

Neal Hughes, President

Readiness

Holy Indicators of God’s Activity in The Multihousing World

“My Father is always at His work…”John 5:17a

-Multihousing Communities are more open than ever before to the gospel!

Readiness

- Multihousing is the fastest growing real estate industry soon to become the preferred choice of housing!

Readiness

- Multihousing Management and Corporations have put out the welcome mat for the church to come and begin new work!

Readiness

- Immigrants are a major player in the North American Church Planting Movement, and guess where they are moving to… multihousing.

Readiness

-Despite church decline, “alternative forms of worship are growing significantly”.

Source: The Barna Report (10-24-05)

Readiness

Priority of Prayer

“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore to send out workers into his harvest field.” Luke 10:2

Lives Changed By Jesus Christ!

The fields are ready. Are you ready?

• ApplicationWhat has God

revealed about the readiness of your setting for multihousing church planting?

Break Time

Multihousing Church PlantingThe Church That Meets At The House

Enlistm

ent

Enlistment The Church Planting Process

First Century Church Planting in The Twenty-first Century

Laity the Heroes“A leader making a

culture where laypeople become the heroes.”

Dale Galloway

“If you want to learn how to do church planting become a student of the book of Acts”

K.C. Crino

Church in The HouseSeven Prime Principles

1. The principle of relying on the Holy Spirit expressed through the priority of prayer in church planting.

Jerusalem

Church in The HouseSeven Prime Principles

2. The principle of church health incorporated into the DNA of the new church from the beginning expressed through a church focused on missions.

Antioch

Church in The HouseSeven Prime Principles

3. The principle of the “person of peace” with the priority of evangelism expressed through sharing the gospel along relationship lines.

Philippi

Church in The HouseSeven Prime Principles

4. The principle of the centrality of God’s Word expressed through consistently communicating the message of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Thessalonica

Church in The HouseSeven Prime Principles

5. The principle of cultural relevance while maintaining biblical integrity in church planting methodology expressed in discovering points of contact for evangelistic efforts.

Athens

Church in The HouseSeven Prime Principles

6. The principle of generosity expressed in Christian stewardship utilizing the resources that are found in the harvest.

Corinth

Church in The HouseSeven Prime Principles

7. The principle of spiritual warfare in behalf of individuals, communities and culture expressed in deliverance from the evil one through the planting of churches.

Ephesus

Planting the Gospel that leads to Planting

Churches

Volunteer Revolution!

“Your people shall be volunteers in the day of Your power…”

Psalm 110:3 NKJV

Share with your group a rewarding experience from when you volunteered to help a church plant?

Enlist Who?

Kingdom-Minded Churches

God-Called Leaders

“Here am I send me” Isaiah 6

Kingdom-Minded Churches

Enlistm

ent

Sponsoring Church

to

Multihousing

Communities

People Search “A process to see

and understand the diverse people who live in Multihousing Sites in your region.”

Multihousing Residents Perceive…

• Church wants money• People dress one way• Church is unfriendly• Church people don’t want us• Afraid they will not behave

properly• Church doesn’t care about our

problems

Partners in Church Planting (PiCP)

The PiCP helps churches identify their place in partnership planting.

Enlistm

ent

Praying Down The Walls

“A Multihousing Strategy to Engage the Church to Go to the Multihousing Communities”

PDW ComponentsMoving the Church Beyond The

Four Walls…

1. Identify

2. Adopt

3. Pray

4. Decide

God-Called

Leaders

“One good test of a good leader, rather than “How much have I done?” needs instead to be “How many others have I involved?”

Dr. Dennis Williams SBTS

Enlistm

ent

Key Principles from the book of Acts with Multihousing Implications for Enlistment

Priority of Prayer Ask of me…

“The Acts Pattern”

Indigenous Leaders

Persons of Peace“The Acts Pattern”

“Often, the person of peace has the church meet in their home and may even be the new leader of the emerging church. A church that starts this way is unique in that it is born out of the harvest, and is bent on a mission to continue reaching the lost.”

Neil Cole, Organic Church

Oikos Household Network

“The Acts Pattern”

Enlistm

ent

The Outside In ApproachPaul The MissionaryMacedonian People

(Acts 16)

Acts 16

Outside InEnter the Area

Evangelize the Community

Equip the Believers

Empower the Leaders

Exit with Joy

Enlistm

ent

The Inside Out Approach Peter the Missionary

Cornelius the Seeker

(Acts 10)

Acts 10

Inside OutInvitation from God

Initiate the Connection

Impart the Gospel

Ignite the Revival Flames

Invest in the New Church

EpochA process to

engage missional leaders in the harvest

Epoch- “An extended period of time ushered

in by the brokenness and faithful praying of God’s people; bringing forth the sending of everyday Christ followers into the harvest to establish relational-based, mission focused, faith communities which results in the reduction of lostness among all people groups in North America.”

Enlistm

ent

The One Word Secret to Volunteer Recruitment is “ASK”1. ASK God2. ASK the Potential Worker

Application:

What has God revealed to you about enlisting Multihousing workers for the harvest?

Break Time

Multihousing Church PlantingThe Church That Meets in the House

Equipping

Equipping The Church Planting Process

Share about a time when God used you to equip another person to serve in ministry.

Equipping

“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”

Ephesians 4:11-13 NKJV

Venues for Equipping •One to One

•Missional Networks

•Web Based

•Learning Labs/Workshops

Equipping Essentials For Multihousing Church Planting

Equipping

Multihousing Small Groups-Community

“About making disciples not just decisions…”

JerusalemDisciple making

Equipping

Multihousing Mentoring

“Living in the dust of the Rabbi…”

Antioch

Developing Leaders

Equipping

Multihousing People Groups

“All Kinds of Churches for all Kinds of People.”

Rick Warren

Philippi

Vision

Equipping

Multihousing Evangelism

“Sharing Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.”

Thessalonica

Gospel Message

Equipping

Multihousing Relationships

“The Bible is a book about relationships—a relationship with God.”

AthensPoints of Connection

Equipping

Multihousing Church Planting Team

“TEAM-together everyone accomplishes more.”

Corinth

Gift-based

Multihousing Strategy

“People who go to Multihousing communities are on the front lines in this battle for souls.”

EphesusSpiritual Warfare

Equipping

Multihousing Management Issues

Job easierProfitRetentionQuality of lifeLegal concerns

Equipping

Multihousing Volunteer Issues

Discovery

Mobilization Logistics Recognition Follow Up

Equipping

Multihousing Commitment Issues

RenewalRejectionIsolationPerseveranceCelebration

Equipping

IndigenousIndigenousIndigenous

Equipping

On The Job Training

• Application:

What has God revealed to you about equipping others to plant multihousing congregations?

Break Time

Multihousing Church PlantingThe Church That Meets in the House

New Church Strengthening and Reproduction

The Church Planting Process

New Church Strengthening

Survivability

A Key Issue for Multihousing Church Planting

68% Of SBC New Churches

2007 NAMB Study

Multihousing Survivability

* Define Success* Legacy

Churches* Congregations* Ministries

Bi-vocational Leadership Skills

FocusTimeTrainingAttitudeFellowship

Church Leadership Function Skills

PreachingBaptismLord’s SupperStewardshipAdministration

DNA

of Multihousing Church Planting

Develop New

Multihousing ResourcesSite Specific with Healthy Church Focus

Reproduction

“The way 185 million in Multihousing will have the opportunity to hear the gospel where they live.”

“Anything that is healthy will reproduce.”

Richard Harris

NAMB Church Planting Group

Do you see yourselfworking alone?

Are you looking atplanting one tree?

Reproduction

Or are you lookingat an orchard?

Huntsville Texas David Valentine

Multihousing MultiplicationEx-offenders

Regional Learning Labs …is a partnering church

actively engaged in multiplying the principles learned from their planting experiences, resulting in new church sponsors/churches through consistent training and demonstration.

Regional Learning Labs

Orlando, Florida…Atlanta, Georgia…Columbia, South Carolina…

Winston Salem / Raleigh, North Carolina…Richmond / Washington, D.C….

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania….New York City, New York…Prince Edward Island, Canada….Montreal, Canada….Toronto, Canada…Rochester, New York…Green Bay,

Wisconsin…Detroit, Michigan…Chicago, Illinois…Cincinnati, Ohio…

The State of West Virginia…Memphis, Tennessee / Little Rock, Arkansas…

Springfield, Missouri…Montgomery, Alabama… Gulf Port, Mississippi…

Lafayette, Louisiana…Houston /D/FW / San Antonio / Amarillo, Texas

Kansas City / Omaha, Nebraska…St. Louis, Missouri / East St. Louis, Illinois…Denver, Colorado...

Mesa, Arizona…Reno, Nevada… Los Angeles, California…Seattle, Washington…The State of Montana

A Weekend Workshop may look like this…

* Teach on Friday night/Saturday Morning

* Show on Saturday Afternoon* Commission on Sunday

Morning* Follow Up in the Days to

Come

Reproduction

Worldview Based Church Planting

Project

Bosnian, Oaxaca, Wolof, African American Low Income, Anglo Urban Post Modern, Native American Urban, Somali, Fujinese, Appalachian, Navajo, Urba Pakistanis, Japanese, Russian Rurba

Worldview Based Church Planting Project

“God seeks to form one people for His Name from all the people groups for His glory and worship”

Van Sanders

National Association of Multihousing Ministry and

Congregations Annual Meeting

New York City August 16-17

Parable of the Talents43,000 SBC Churches

10% 5 to 104,300 x 10=43,000

10% 2 to 44,300 X 4=17,200

80% 1 to 134, 300 x 1=34,300

Total: 94,300 Multihousing Works!

Every Baptist Association in North America plant at least 20 new multihousing churches by the year 2020.

1289 Baptist Associations in SBC and Canada x 20 New

Total:25,780 Multihousing Works!

“How is this going to help the kingdom of God?”

• Application:

Share in your group what God has revealed to you about new church strengthening and reproduction.

I am here to serve you!

Bob BurtonMultihousing National Missionary

North American Mission Boardbburton@namb.net

678-386-4948www.namb.net

www.churchplantingvillage.netwww.experiencemultihousing.net