Upcoming Church Planting Events

Boston hosts church planter network leader training

By Joe Conway
The NLS is a three-day intensive experience through which participants immerse themselves in learning, planning and implementation, according to Irby. The process allows participants to jump years ahead by building on the experience of others who have spent more than a decade in developing church planting strategies and systems.
Participants should expect to learn the components of how to put together a working strategy for an effective church-planting network. Whether they are starting from scratch or have bits and pieces already formulated, this school will teach the nuts and bolts (and beyond) of how to lead that network. Beyond head knowledge, the school incorporates exercises designed for the participant to work through their own strategy as they go through the school, Irby said.

Irby said the NLS is for anyone who is currently leading a church-planting network or who plans to do so in the future. “It is for church planting missionaries and strategists, church-planting network leaders, directors of missions, pastors of reproducing churches, missions pastors or anyone who wants to develop their own church planting strategies and systems,” said Irby.
NLS will be hosted at Celebration Church, Stonehill Corporate Center in Saugus, Mass. The event will begin with registration at 8 a.m. on Wednesday and conclude at 3 p.m. on Friday. Registration is $279, which includes event resources, lunches and snacks each day.
To register, or for more information, visit www.networkleaderschool.com, or contact Natalie Hammond, 425-640-3676.
Joe Conway is a writer for the North American Mission Board.