Spin-Off Churches

How One Church Successfully Plants Another

by Rodney Harrison, Tom Cheyney and Don Overstreet

The past two decades in Christendom have brought forth a proliferation of books about church planting. One denomination (Southern Baptist) has even set a goal to start fifty thousand new churches over the next twenty year period. But what’s missing toward that end is a solid resource that specifically defines how one established church can successfully sponsor or parent a new church into sustainable existence. Spin-Off Churches aims to meet that need with contributions from a team of veteran missional church planters whose access to current church sponsorship data through the North American Mission Board is second to none. Their experience and teaching will guide readers through the church sponsorship process from its biblical basis to the nuts, bolts, and resource basics of implementation and follow through.

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Rodney Harrison

Author

Rodney Harrison is the vice president and associate dean for Academics and former director of the Nehemiah Center for North American Church Planting at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He also coauthored Spin-Off Churches: How One Church Successfully Plants Another

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Tom Cheyney

Author

Tom Cheyney, a church planter for nearly three decades, directs the Strategic Resourcing Unit within the Church Planting Group of the North American Mission Board in Alpharetta, Georgia. He is also the coauthor of Spin-Off Churches, a sought-after speaker in the fields of church planting, multiplication, and revitalization, and serves as an adjunct professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Don Overstreet

Author

Don Overstreet has been involved in church planting for forty years in the United States and abroad. He is a church planter strategist with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Southern California and an adjunct professor at Golden Gate Baptist Seminary. He also coauthored Spin-Off Churches: How One Church Successfully Plants Another.