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The Mission

The Mission of the Texas District is to strengthen congregations to reach the lost, disciple the saved and care for people – locally and globally.

The First Wave

m2c 2008

  • Church Planting Partnerships in the Texas District. (553kb)
  • Gloria Dei: Beginning Multi-Site (7.3mb)
  • CrossPoint: Mothering the Multi-Site (799kb)
  • Point of Grace: connecting real people to a real GOD (4mb)
  • Strategic Evangelism through Church Multiplication (1mb)

The Second Retreat

2009 Resources

  • Developing a Greenhouse Atmosphere for a Church Planting Movement in Texas (1.3mb)
  • From Root to Fruit: Steps to Take to Plant a Church.
  • The In-Home Church Model (1mb)
  • Mission Prayer Team Guidelines
  • Mission Planter Training (827kb)
  • Nurtuing the Roots: Preparing Your Church for Mission very large (11.5mb)
  • St. Mark, Waco: Planting from the Inside
  • People Of the Book Lutheran Outreach-Texas very large (32.8mb)

Even More to Consider

2010-2011 Resources and Presentations

  • Becoming a Church Planting Movement (1.4mb)
  • LINC Houston (7.9mb)
  • MissionInsite Texas Registration Information
  • A North Texas Missional Greenhouse (5.8mb)
  • The Edge: Community Lutheran Church - A Prospectus
  • Steps to Planting (includes team development, financials, CPAC)
  • SoulThirst Core Values
  • SoulThirst Strategy
  • m2c Prayer Pages

    • Read about the m2c Prayer Initiative
    • Receive the m2c Prayer Page
    • 2012 Prayer Page Website
    • Review 2011 Prayer Pages
    • 2010 Reflection on Acts
      (49 Articles)
  • Marks of a Mission Movement
    by Paul Krentz

    • #1 White Hot Faith
    • #2 Commit to a Cause
    • #3 Contagious Relationships
    • #4 Rapid Mobilization
    • #5 Adaptive Methods
    • Faithful, Fruitful, and Reproducing
  • Mission Challenge
    by Michael Newman

    • Counterintuitivity
    • Captain Bill's Appeal
    • Let It Change You
    • A Super-Model of Mission
    • A Deployed Church
    • Infiltration
  • Planting Networks

    • onthisrock
    • LINC Houston
    • LINC North Texas
    • LINC San Antonio
    • SoulThirst
    • FiveTwo
    • POBLO
    • Acts Church
    • The Summit
  • Planting Triad

    • Place (Texas Demographics)
    • Plan (Stages for Planting)
    • Person
      (Church Planter Candidate Assessment)
  • Resource Material

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    • m2c Introduction
    • Mission Conversation Starters
    • Missional Greenhouse North Texas
    • Becoming a Church Planting Movement
    • Developing Greenhouse
    • Steps to Planting
    • In-home Church Ministry
    • Preparing Church for Mission
    • Planting from the Inside
    • LINC & m2c
  • Model Mission Plans, Strategies and Core Values

    • SoulThirst Core Values
    • SoulThirst Strategy
    • Roadmap to Launch (Water's Edge, Allen)
    • The Edge Community Lutheran, Prospectus
    • The Vine MAP
  • Links of Interest

    • Texas District
    • Mission and Ministry Facilitators
    • Missional Worker
    • La Frontera
    • Texas Partners in Mission
    • LCMS
  • Conference Links

    • Exponential 2012: April 23-26, 2012, Orlando. FL
 

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