{"id":61244,"date":"2025-09-09T21:35:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/?page_id=61244"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:31:54","slug":"church-planting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/ministries\/church-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/send.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Send Network Florida is the 50\/50 partnership of the Florida Baptist Convention and the North American Mission Board to come<em>\u00a0right beside<\/em>\u00a0our churches to help them multiply, planting churches\u2014everywhere, for everyone\u2014all across the Sunshine State.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Planting Stories<\/h2>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Badge-Divider.svg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2>Church Planter Residency<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Want to plant a church and don\u2019t know how?<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Apply to be a church planting intern for a 12-18 month preparation process at a Send Network Florida multiplying church. This process will not only expose you to a church that is healthy and thriving but one also willing to stand along side of you as you prepare to launch out and plant a church. This process will include exposure to other church plants, education on what it takes to plant a church and practical application of the needed skills.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><p>\n        <a href=\"mailto:jpeoples@namb.net\">Contact Us<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Become a Church Planter<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Want to plant a church in Florida?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Send Network Florida exists to plant healthy, multiplying churches throughout Florida. We offer exceptional resources to help local churches deploy planters throughout our state to make a Kingdom difference. Are you interested in taking your next steps into church planting?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/church-planting-interest-form\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Started<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>PRAY<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p class=\"color-gray-50 text-2xl mb-1\">Lead your church to pray for a church planter and his team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"color-gray-50 text-2xl mb-1\">If we want to see God move in North America, we should pray.\u00a0Connect with a planter and begin leading your church to pray for God to work in and through church planters on the front lines of lostness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/pray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pray for a Planter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>PARTICIPATE<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p class=\"color-gray-50 text-2xl mb-1\">Provide for a plant or planter\u2019s needs<\/p>\n<p class=\"color-gray-50 text-2xl mb-1\">Planting a church can be lonely work, but it doesn\u2019t have to be. Form a relationship with a planter or planting couple and encourage them by sending people, resources or other needs to support their work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/kiosks\/involve-my-church\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support A Planter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>PLANT<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p class=\"color-gray-50 text-2xl mb-1\">Your church can plant churches. We want to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"color-gray-50 text-2xl mb-1\">Join the church planting movement by becoming a church planter\u2019s sending family. From assessment to launching to caring, walk with planters through the church planting journey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/send-network\/sendingchurch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Help Plant A Church<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>MULTIPLY<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p class=\"color-gray-50 text-2xl mb-1\">Create a culture of multiplication<\/p>\n<p class=\"color-gray-50 text-2xl mb-1\">Your church can build a residency program that discovers, develops and deploys missional leaders and church planting teams from within your church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/send-network\/residencies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Multiply Your Church<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!-- 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