Church Planting

Learn the Methodology of Church Planting

Be ready to share the gospel and establish a church in an unreached people group.

Understand the Whole Process

From evangelism to discipleship, your methodology matters. Learn the principles of church planting that will take you from initial contact with an unreached people group to the end goal: a mature church.

Initial Stages

Learn how to build relationships, understand culture, and speak the language of an unreached people group.

Ministry Allocation
Culture and Language Learning
Lesson Development
Evangelism

Church Maturity

Ongoing teaching and discipleship will help prepare the church for the next generation.

Discipleship
Continued Teaching
Bible Translation
Indigenous Leadership

A Proven Approach

Foundational Bible Teaching

The gospel is most clearly understood in the context of God’s larger story. Lay a foundation with the biblical narrative for Jesus to be rightly understood.

Here’s what Church Planters have to say about their missionary training.

Josh & Carissa

Africa

“We couldn’t imagine diving into language and culture study without training from experienced missionaries. ETC’s focused training on learning new cultures, understanding worldviews, and adapting the message to their context has been crucial as we serve in Africa.“

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Church Planting Courses

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MI 301: Worldviews

This course addresses worldviews: (a) what they are; (b) how they form, develop and change; and (c) how they can be analyzed to guide effective ministry strategies for planting mature churches. The missionary candidate will learn the why and how of ministering cross-culturally at a worldview level.

MI 305: Foundational Bible Teaching

This course addresses the rationale for the Building on Firm Foundations for evangelism and church maturation. This course also seeks to bring clarity of God's intentions for salvation through the gospel.

MI 309: Pre-Evangelism 1

This course will familiarize students with principles and tools that can be applied in a variety of unreached or least-reached people contexts to assist them in developing effective church planting strategies, in terms of mindset, tasks, and assessment during the crucial Pre-Church stage of church planting.

MN 328: New Testament Church Principles 1

This course is the first part of New Testament Church Principles in which students wrestle through deconstructing cultural concepts of church from that which is biblical and establish an epistemological basis, from both Scripture and logic, for Ethnos360’s Mature Church Model.