How to Become a
Church Planter
We’re committed to starting new Christ centered churches in every community in our Midwest region. We start churches that start churches to see lives changed with Christ’s love and transformation.
Are you considering church planting in Wisconsin or the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? Maybe you’re curious about what it takes to start a new congregation. Potentially you feel you have a clear call to plant a church. Maybe you just need to know how to start a church. We are here to assist you in this journey.
SUPPORT & RESOURCES
Everything you need
With Converge Great Lakes, you’ll get personalized coaching, practical training, relevant resources and tested strategies that work in the community in which you plant. You'll be able to implement proven systems that will help increase the long-term success of your church plant. More importantly, you'll be part of a family with other experienced church planters and mentors to support you, enthusiastic partners who want to see you succeed.
Coaching and Leadership Development
Practical Training and Resources
Tested Strategies in Your Context
Financial Grants and Resources
Pastor Retirement Plan
PROVEN PATHWAY
With you every step
We provide a clear pathway for you to plant a new church. Each step has been strategically designed to improve your success so more people will have the opportunity to accept Jesus.
Pre-launch
After some conversations together, you'll have the opportunity to attend Converge's highly-trusted Church Planting Assessment Center. During the assessment, trained assessors will help you discern your calling, fit in ministry and capacity to be the lead pastor on a planting team. Next, we’ll outline partnership details, discuss your salary and explain what church planting grants you will receive.
We’ll teach you how to raise funds, recruit your launch team and fill out the legal forms to establish your church as a 501c3 non-profit. We can even help with the creative aspects of your church plant such as naming, branding, logo development and getting your website up and running.
Launch
The support doesn’t end just because you're ready to launch your church. Now the real fun begins. When it’s time to launch, we stand with you to support you and your team. We want to make sure you're ready to launch successfully.
Post-launch
Throughout your journey you’ll continue to receive coaching, training, church planting resources and the opportunity to connect with other leaders in Converge. When your church plant is ready to plant a new church, we'll walk alongside you throughout the process. We can help you with:
Learning how to raise up leaders within your church
Planning for capital campaigns and expansion
Keeping you and your church healthy as you fulfill God's calling in your ministry
Our proven pathway helps church planters achieve a 92% success rate
WHY CONVERGE
Better Together
When you plant a church with Converge, you become part of a movement of like-minded, Bible-believing churches focused on the mission of Jesus. We are spiritually dynamic, relationally devoted, missionally driven and culturally diverse.
Supportive Relationships
Converge gives you a church planting tribe to belong to and friends to encourage and support you.
Shared Expertise
We are generous with everything we learn and willingly give away what we know.
Leadership Development
We’ll help you develop in your leadership as you raise up other leaders for Christ’s mission.
Converge took time to come along side our fellowship and especially our elder team, when we were in the midst of conflict. They lovingly helped us to see our situation clearly and move our congregation towards Christ and reconciliation. Today we are once again full of joy and moving into this next season with great hope and expectation!
-Rob Kaczmarek, Senior Pastor
The Bridge Bible Church, Somerset, WI
GET STARTED
Become a church planter
Are you ready to reach your community for Jesus? We are! Take the next step and connect with us. Join a team that will be in the trenches with you — assurance you’ll never be alone
All communication is kept confidential. We understand you may not want anyone from your current employment knowing you are exploring church planting.