Support

The Kairos: Church Planting Support mission is to recruit, equip and support church multiplication leaders to strategically plant new church planting churches of Christ in order to produce regional church planting movements.


Supporting of church plantings is accomplished in the following areas:



Do you desire to support the work of church planting?  Contact Stan Granberg, PhD, Executive Director of Kairos: Church Planting Support to begin exploring how you or your church can help.

Seek the Future, Church Multiplication Summit,

The Seek the Future, Church Multiplication Summit, held in St. Louis, Missouri the week end of September 17, 2005 was a great success!

Over 60 attended this summit that was designed to be a time of deep reflection, discussion and sharing. Pulpit ministers from regionally influential churches across the country - representing every major geographic area in the United States - met together to explore the important issues regarding church multiplication (see The Four Questions below).

Question #1 What strengths and weaknesses does our historical theology hold for church multiplication in the 21st century? Agenda & Discussion (*.pdf)

Question #2 How can we strategically approach the task of church multiplication in ways that use the best of our theology and history and which meet the needs and situations of the 21st century? Agenda & Discussion (*.pdf)

Question #3 What can we do to educate, motivate and promote regional church multiplication movements among our fellowship? Agenda & Discussion (*.pdf)

Question #4 How can we finance regional church multiplication movements? Agenda & Discussion (*.pdf)

"Thanks for the awesome time in St. Louis!"

Partner Churches

The following churches have partnered with Kairos: Church Planting Support to accomplish the mission of recruiting, equiping and supporting church multiplication leaders to strategically plant new church planting churches of Christ in order to produce regional church planting movements.

Contact Stan Granberg, PhD, Executive Director of Kairos: Church Planting Support to begin exploring how you or your church can help.

 

 

The Southwest Church of Christ, a 1300+ member church is located in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

The Southwest church has taken on the role of a flagship church to partner with Kairos to launch a church multiplication movement. As part of this fledgling movement the SW church is committed to planting a church a year beginning in 2005.

 

Church Southwest Church of Christ
Address 1601 James St.
Jonesboro, AR 72401
Contact Larry Deal
Phone 870-932-9254
Email ldeal@swfamily.org

 


The Hilltop Community Church of Christ, located in El Segundo, California, is involved in supporting the Kairos work of Scott Lambert.

 

 

 

 

 

The Circle church of Christ, located in Corvallis, Oregon, about 1 1/2 hours south of Portland, Oregon, is involved in supporting the planting of the Cascade Hills church in Salem, Oregon.

 

Church Circle Church of Christ
Address 2020 NW Circle Blvd.
Corvallis, OR 97330
Contact Mark Johnson
Phone 541-758-4456
Email thefam@comcast.net

 

The Woodlawn Church of Christ is located in Abilene. Texas. The Woodlawn Church of Christ is partnering with Kairos to support the Cascade Hills church plant in Salem, Oregon.

 

Church Woodlawn Church of Christ
Address 3185 N. 10th
Abilene, TX 79603
Contact Mike Bailey
Phone 325-673-6776

 


Park Plaza Church of Christ

The Park Plaza Church of Christ is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Park Plaza Church of Christ is partnering with Kairos to support Ron Clark and the Agape Church of Christ plant in Portland, Oregon.

 

 


Westside Church of Christ

The Westside Church of Christ is located in Bakersfield, California. The Westside Church of Christ is partnering with Kairos to support Phil McCollum in East Hollywood.

 

 


Highland Oaks Church of Christ

The Highland Oaks Church of Christ is located in Dallas, Texas. The Highland Oaks Church of Christ is partnering with Kairos to support Phil McCollum in East Hollywood.

 

 


Hollywood Church of Christ

The Hollywood Church of Christ is located in Hollywood, California. The Hollywood Church of Christ is partnering with Kairos to support Phil McCollum in East Hollywood.

 

 

A Suggested Reading Bibliography for Church Leaders

These books are a selection of the best material available on growing healthy churches and planting new churches. These books are written from a variety of perspectives, but all of them are based upon real world research or experience.

Anderson, Leith (1990). Dying for Change. Minneapolis: Bethany Book Publishers.

Barna, George (1999). The Habits of Highly Effective Churches. Ventura, CA: Regal.

Barna Research Online. www.barna.org.

Conn, Harvie (1997). Planting and Growing Urban Churches: From Dream to Reality. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

Ellas, John W. (1990). Church Growth Through Groups: Strategies for Varying Levels of Christian Community. Houston: Center for Church Growth.

Ellas, John W. (1990). Clear Choices for Churches: Trends among Growing and Declining Churches of Christ. Houston: Center for Church Growth.

Faircloth, Samuel (1991). Church Planting for Reproduction. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

Hadaway, C. Kirk (1991). Church Growth Principles: Separating Fact from Fiction. Nashville: Broadman.

Hesselgrave, David (2000). Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: A Guide for Home and Foreign Missions, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.

McGavran, Donald A. & Wagner, C. Peter (1990). Understanding Church Growth, 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Rainer, Thom S. (2001). Surprising Insights from the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Rainer, Thoms S. (1996). Effective Evangelistic Churches. Nashville: Broadman and Holman.

Schwarz, Christian A. (1996). Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential Qualities of Healthy Churches. Carol Stream, IL: Church Smart Resources.

Yeakley, Flavil R., Jr. (1979). Why Churches Grow. Broken Arrow, OK: Christian Communications.

Church Planting Plans

The following Church Planting Plans have been developed by students in Dr. Stan Granberg's Church Growth classes at Cascade College. These Church Planting plans are conceptual and may or may not represent firm plans to launch a church in the specified community with a particular timeline.

Church Planters are encouraged to submit additional Church Planting Plans, provide information for the Church Plants section of kairoschurchplanting.org, and/or add a Topic ("thread") to the Kairos Forum. Submissions can be sent to plans@kairoschurchplanting.org.

 

"New Life Community", Vancouver, WA - Ryan Woods

"New Day", Lakewood, WA - Alan Taylor

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