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Introducing a New Website for Church Planters

Logo for Church PlantsWe came across an article that introduced a new website called ChurchPlants.com. This is a new site devoted specifically to church leaders and volunteers who are involved in the hustle and bustle of planting a new church.

Some of the great things over there are:

  • Insightful articles by church leaders and planters
  • How To’s on important aspects of planting like building leadership teams and connecting in your community
  • Free Resources like eBooks, surveys, and creative packages

We are excited about this website because we believe it’s going to be a worthwhile source of encouragement and guidance for church planters.

Check it out http://churchplants.com/ & let us know what you think!

Free Resources for The Mobile Church

Over the last few months, we’ve been working hard to provide you with new (FREE) resources you can utilize on your journey as a mobile church. We know that being a portable church comes with a set of unique challenges. We’ve been helping church planters & multi-site churches mobilize for worship for over seventeen years.

We’ve pooled some of our own knowledge, canvassed clients, National Church Leaders, Coaches & Pastors to create a bevy of resources for you. Here’s a sneak peek…

What Every Church Planter Should Know, Volume One - an ebook. a collection of essays from people like Tom Nebel, Bill Easum, Dave Ferguson, Casey Graham, Matt Keller and Jason Dukes. Volume One features these guys and more answering the question “What I Wish I Knew Before I Planted My First Church”. Sign up for an Advance Copy Here.

The Portable Church® Journal - a Magazine dedicated to portable churches. This is a collection of stories from planters, multi-site pastors and pastors who are, everyday, taking their communities by storm. These churches are mobile churches just like you! Find out how they got started, what keeps them going and keys to their success.You can get a hard copy or digital copy. Sign Up for an Advance Copy Here.

Portable Church Workshop Podcasts - recordings from our traveling workshop. Let’s face it… there’s some stuff you didn’t learn in seminary. Learn from proven experts about fundraising, empowering volunteers, finding the right facility & leveraging the local media to create momentum. All this from pastors who have helped churches (including their own!) find success in mobile worship. Sign Up for Downloads as they become available here.

There’s more to come, too, things like
    How to Create a Generous Culture ebook
    How to Afford the Right Equipment ebook
    What Every Multi Site Church Should Know, Vol One ebook

Signing up today guarantees you’ll get advance copies before they become publicly available. Get the edgeSign up today.

 

Top Links & Resources (week of 3/26)

Team Twitter is working hard provide interesting and relevant information on mobile church to church planters, multi-site churches and friends of Portable Church® Industries (plus a few cool links from around the web). Here’s a list of our Top 10 Most Popular Links from Last Week. 

Follow us on twitter here: @portablechurch@kendramalloy@kevintoddjones. If you’re not on twitter, fan us on facebook for updates.

Announcing A Portable Church Workshop

There are very few events specifically for the mobile church. That’s why we are pleased to announce a very cool workshop happening in Gilbert, AZ this May.

This one-day, intensive workshop is geared towards church planters who are mobile, and we are pleased to be a part of it. This workshop will cover things they didn’t cover in seminary. Things like…

  • Leading & Empowering a Team Made Entirely of Volunteers
  • Choosing the Right Facility & the Right Equipment
  • Leveraging Local & National Media to Create Momentum
  • Finding & Raising the Money to Pay for It All

The teachers in this workshop are going to provide you the techniques you need to help you launch your church and keep the momentum going. These guys are pastors, church planters and church leaders themselves. PLUS they have the proven experience of working with hundreds of churches across North America. Have you already launched your church? No problem – come hear these techniques and put them to work in your church body today.

This Portable Church Workshop is a low-cost event – only $75 (includes lunch and materials). It’s one day only in Gilbert, AZ on May 16, 2012.

Read more here
Register here 

Announcing Fund Raising Consultations!

We are pleased to announce a partnership with Giving Rocket, a company that helps churches fund their vision.

This partnership will give Portable Church® Clients exclusive savings on Giving Rocket’s consultative services and access to education from Giving Rocket specifically geared towards church plants, mobile ministries or multi-site churches.

A Giving Rocket Fundraising Consultation will give churches a personalized, step-by-step fundraising plan, resources to speed up the fundraising process as well as education and tools for engaging individuals, churches and networks while fundraising for their mobile church plant or new, multi-site campus.

We believe this integration of services will add to the success, longevity and financial health of new Church Plants, existing Church Plants & new Multi-Site Churches.

If you’d like more information, give a Project Manager a call today. We want your churches to achieve fund raising success! 800-939-7722.

Thank You For Making us a Part of Your Mobile Ministry in 2011

We’re nearing the end of 2011, and we are celebrating! all of the churches we’ve had the privilege to work with this year. We have had the privilege of working with incredible teams like yours from all over North America. We celebrate what God has done through your ministry and are honored that we have had the opportunity to equip growing, expanding and brand new churches in 2011. This year…

We partnered with almost 300 different churches.

We spent almost 100 days, or 50 Weekends, training (and getting inspired by) churches across North America.

We commissioned more than 970 Road Cases – cases which allow churches to move in & out of their buildings efficiently.

We drove a little more than 49,000 miles delivering Portable Church® Systems all over North America – systems which enable volunteers and empower leadership teams.

We delivered 38 miles of extension cords – helping churches source power, and thus power the message of Christ, at their rented facilities.

We spent more than 800 Hours racking Audio and Video Cases – these cases are now part of the mission of spreading the Gospel in hundreds of communities.

We installed 2,500 feet of Children’s Dividers - these dividers created classrooms for more than 200 children.

We loaded and (portably) installed more than 200 Speakers, more than 220 Microphones and almost 100 Projectors –these are tools that enable people to hear the Gospel – loud & clear.

We brought 490 Carpets and 2,340 Units of Children’s Flooring into churches which, back to back, provides more than 2.5 Miles of Flooring for children to sit upon & hear the Word of God

We flew more than 300,000 Miles to meet with churches in person and hear, personally, about their vision for their community. We left inspired each time.

We helped churches open, in one Sunday Service, more than 13,000 seats for adults to hear the Gospel and more than 6,000 seats for children.

These numbers are our year-end celebration. These are the numbers that motivate, inspire & spur us on.What an awesome privelege we have to be a part of the movement of Christ through mobile ministries like yours.

If you entrusted us with your vision this year – thank you. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your story. Because of your trust, we have been inspired, awed & humbled. We will continue to do everything we can, to the best of our ability, to equip and contribute to the spreading of the Gospel through all of your churches across the nations.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Social Networking

For the last few months, I’ve been slowly and more enthusiastically getting involved with this thing you kids call Twitter. I’ve finally opened up an account to update to use for Portable Church. I plan on using this micro-blogging format to update you on some good articles I read, new activities or new products I find.

If you’re interested in following me, check out @kendra_m.

You can also befriend me on facebook. Search for kendra@portablechurch.com

Portable Church Email System

Over the last week, we have been experiencing some problems with our email addresses. Several (not all) of our email addresses had been blacklisted as on a community SPAM blocker service. We have been working through the problems with our technical providers and believe we are now on track.

If you have sent an email between March 9th and March 19th – we wanted to make sure that you know that we are still sifting through the returned emails and resending them to the appropriate parties. If you’d like, you can resend the emails you are awaiting response on. We ask for your patience as we continue to work on the problem.

I would have like to send you all an email to inform you of our problems… but well…. that hasn’t been possible (*smile*).

Thank you for your understanding!!!

Renewed Passion

Bob Smith (Consultant), Justin Sweeten (Production Team) and I left the great state of Michigan for Oregon yesterday. We are helping a church in the area become more efficient with set-up and tear-down.

We found ourselves with a little down time and took the opportunity to meet up with one of the church planters we had worked with last year. Matt Payne is a church planter and head pastor of Church! at Bethany in Beaverton, Oregon.

Over huge plates of spaghetti (not that we were complaining, we hadn’t eaten since the car pool began at 4am Detroit Time!), Matt filled us in on the nuances of planting a church in Oregon and regaled us with stories of his infamously lost-then-found church trailer (you can read about that here).

Then, Matt talked more in-depth about his church planting experience, his plans for the future and just how much he has felt the presence of God in his journey. We left extremely encouraged and inspired to pray for the de-churched people of Oregon (87% are currently not attending church and 78% of those do not currently identify themselves with a faith).

We also left very refreshed as we remembered why we do what we do. It is easy to get bogged down with the “daily grind”, but meeting with Matt helped us to remember the greater cause and the sheer excitement of the gospel being preached to hungry souls. It was perfect timing heading into the Easter Season.

If you are in the Beaverton area, check out Church! at Bethany meeting at 9:15am on Sunday mornings. He has a dynamic worship team and a dynamite children’s program. If you are a church planter, I think you’ll be encouraged and interested by a read of his blog.

Happy Saturday!

Popular Search Terms

There are a lot of different search terms that drive traffic to our website and to our blog. Here are a few that have popped up a lot in the past few weeks.
  • Creative Portable Church
  • Rich Birch Blog
  • Portable Church Layouts
  • Portable Church for Sale

I thought I’d help you guys out and give you a few links.(Note: Said Listing may or may not be former clients of PCI)

For “Creative Portable Church”….
Check out Grace Point Church Blog in Las Vegas, NV (http://graceisthepoint.blogspot.com/). Devin, the Head Pastor, showcases many creative and intriguing stage layouts as well as his sermon series in the works.

Check out Ridgestone Backstage in Canton, GA (http://www.ridgestonebackstage.com/). Though we do not know this team personally, the pictures and musings on this blog give us an inside peek at their programming, staging and artistry.

Check out Imago Dei Community Church in Portland, OR (www.imagodeicommunity.com). I haven’t yet found a blog for them, but they have an incredible passion for artistic and experiential worship. Look at their links under “Worship and Beauty”

… for a more complete list, email me!

For “Rich Birch Blog”….
Rich Birch, Site Development Pastor at the Meeting House, keeps his blog at www.killerchurch.com

For “Portable Church Layouts”…
For some of our most requested phots, check out our Flickr Album to the right

Are you a Portable Church? Send us your picture to display, clearly noting the products in use, the venue and your Church Name (Please also let us know if you are a PCI Client and open to having people contact you for more information).

For “Used Portable Church Systems”…
Call our Sales Offices! Many clients call us to let us know they have equipment for sale when they move into buildings. When others call looking for equipment, we put the pastors in touch with each other to negotioate the deal. I can’t promise we’ll always have something, but we’re happy to help how we can.

Do you have a system for sale? Let us know, and we’ll let other pastors know.

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