Are You a Church Planter?
Our Desire
The church planting experience is challenging. We are committed to caring for our church planters and families. This care takes the form of:
Funding: We provide the salary for the church planter and help raise additional support.
Assessment: We try to put people into settings where they will succeed utilizing a variety of pre-assessment materials and an assessment center.
Coaching: We have quality coaches in our system that have launched and grown new churches in Chicagoland. These coaches maintain regular contact with the planter, helping through the new church process and beyond.
Mentoring: Our Director of Mentoring meets monthly with the church planters for encouragement, spiritual guidance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of situations in the new church.
Pre-Assessment Material
13 Key Qualities of a Church Planter, Biographical Sketch and an application. Click here to start the process.
Interviews by IGNITE Staff and Assessment Team
After the initial assessment, interviews will be scheduled with IGNITE staff. Determination may be made at this time regarding potential areas in which to plant.
Final Assessment
The candidate will go through a complete assessment center for final critique.
Hiring
When this process is complete, the individual will be hired to start a new church in Chicagoland.
Ignite Church Planting has:
A Proven Track Record
For 100 years, IGNITE (formerly known as the CDEA) has been starting churches across Chicagoland.
A Proven Success Rate
85% of the 14 churches started in the last 10 years continue to grow and reach the unchurched and unconnected.
A Proven Adaptability
We recognize that different strategies reach different people groups. We continue to change and improve our methodology as we reach the diverse population of Chicagoland.
Our Vision
By 2025, we are going to start 100 new churches across Chicagoland. (Since 2001, we have started 14 new churches with 5 more planned for 2008.)
Do you…
Embrace new challenges?
Have a passion for the Harvest?
Think outside the box?
Enjoy spending time with the unchurched?
…then you may be a church planter!
If you have any questions or comments, contact Lance Hurley, Executive Director of IGNITE Church Planting at (815.685.1939 or by email.
