{"id":326,"date":"2018-10-03T19:55:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/discipleshipmin\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2020-09-03T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:28:09","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/churchplanting\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/discipleshipmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/10\/communion.jpg\" alt=\"communion\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While church plants with the Church of the Brethren will represent a wide range of funding models, the national new church advisory committee recognizes the need to sustain the supportive resources in priorities one through four with a strong financial base.<\/p>\n<p>God is doing a new thing through the Church of the Brethren. A movement of emerging mission points and church planting is gaining momentum. Passion is rising. Vision is expanding. Commitment is deepening. Networks are developing. People are acting. <\/p>\n<h2>New Church Development Handbook<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media1.razorplanet.com\/share\/511272-2452\/resources\/931412_NEWCHDEVHANDBK2006_JULY2012.pdf\" class=\"pdf\">Download the New Church Development Handbook<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Written by David K. Shumate, the book covers the following: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapter One: Why Plant New Congregations?<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Two: Core Values of the Church of the Brethren<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Three: Models of Church Planting<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Four: The Importance of Vision<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Five: Leadership for Church Planting<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Six: Laying the Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Seven: Building upon the Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Eight: Land and Location<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Nine: Partnership and Role Definitions<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Ten: Polity and Guidelines for Projects, Fellowships and<br \/>\n Congregations<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Eleven: Partner Relationships with Emerging Congregations<\/li>\n<li>Chapter Twelve: Developing a Coaching Network for the Apostle <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While church plants with the Church of the Brethren will represent a wide range of funding models, the national new church advisory committee recognizes the need to sustain the supportive resources in priorities one through four with a strong financial base. God is doing a new thing through the Church of the Brethren. A movement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":290,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"class_list":["post-326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-churchplanting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions\/329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/dlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}