An Introduction
LEAD TEAMS
LEAD TEAMS
“Relationships worth building and dreams worth chasing”
Originally designed just for church
planting coaches
 Evolved to include any key leader who
believed in church planting
 Then evolved to include the dual purposes
of multiplication and mobilization
 Now focusing on the mission of
reproducing healthy missional churches
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LEAD TEAM COMPONENTS
One
Dimensional
Healthy
Leaders
LEAD TEAM COMPONENTS
Two
Dimensional
Healthy
Leaders
Healthy
Churches
LEAD TEAM COMPONENTS
Three
Dimensional
Healthy
Leaders
Missional
Impact
Healthy
Churches
LEAD TEAM MISSION
Healthy Leaders and Churches
Reproducing Healthy Missional Churches
Healthy
Leaders
Healthy
Churches
Missional
Impact
Multiplying Disciples, Multiplying Healthy Leaders,
Multiplying Healthy New Churches
LEAD TEAM STRUCTURE
6 to 10 pastors or
leaders
 Meet every other
month (average 5
meetings per year)
 Meet for 1 day or
overnight
 Led by a “Head Coach”
 Head coach resourced
by Converge
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LEAD MEETING KEY ELEMENTS
Learn
Encourage
Achieve
Dream
THE PRICE OF ISOLATION…
“Then they…went on to Laish,
against a peaceful and unsuspecting
people. They attacked them with the
sword and burned down their city.
There was no one to rescue them
because they lived a long way from
Sidon and had no relationship with
anyone else….” Judges 18:27-28
STEPHEN AMBROSE ON TEAMWORK
"Teamwork. This was a family that had come together
and formed a team for the exploration of the continent
of North America. And they couldn't have done it if they
hadn't become a family. Every one of them could
recognize a cough in the night and know who it
was. They could hear a footstep in the night and know
who it was. They knew who liked salt on their meat and
who didn't. They knew who was the best shot in the
expedition, who was the fastest runner, and who was
the man who could get a fire going on a rainy day.
STEPHEN AMBROSE ON TEAMWORK
They knew, because they sat around the campfire and
talked about each others' parents and loved ones, each
others' hopes. And they had come to love each other to
the point that they would sell their own lives, gladly, to
save a comrade. They had developed a bond; they had
become a band of brothers, and together they were able
to accomplish feats that we just stand astonished at
today when we look back at them."
Historian Stephen Ambrose, as he appeared on the Ken Burns'
documentary "Lewis and Clark".
SAMPLE SCHEDULE – ½ DAY
10:00 am
Learning, Together
11:00 am
Achieve-Dream Planning
12:30 pm
Lunch-Encourage/share/pray
1:30 pm
Head for home
SAMPLE SCHEDULE – 1 DAY
10:00 am
Arrival, devotional, personal
catch-up, prayer
11:30 am
Learning, training
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Achieving/Missional planning
3:30 pm
Fun Activity
5:30 pm
Dinner and Dreaming
7:00 pm
Head for home
KEY LEARN RESOURCES
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5.
Emotionally Healthy Church
Emotionally Healthy Leader
NCD
Disc/Strengthsfinder tools
CUSA learning webinars
IMPLICATIONS FOR MULTIPLICATION
Reducing the risk factors for church planters:
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8.
Personal funding
Cultural fit
Number of “ministry partners”
Number of pre-existing contacts
Proximity to family/support group
Proximity to geographic roots
Proximity to helpful churches
Prior success in vocational ministry
IMPLICATIONS FOR MOBILIZATION
1.
Group diagnosis, challenge,
coaching, and accountability
2.
Ideas, perspective, and
encouragement
3.
Growth!
4.
Participation in a meaningful
global missions strategy
Funding Your
LEAD Team Mission
Various models/training available
LEAD Team Models
1.
2.
3.
Collaborative Model
Extended Family Model
Independent Model
Collaborative Model
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Churches are planted through cooperative efforts,
with each LEAD Team church taking a piece of the
action.
Example: NC/VA LEAD Team. Bill Denning,
HeadCoach
Participant churches help with prayer, personnel, and
the purse.
Funding is often a combination of LEAD Team help,
support raising, district involvement and other
sources.
Extended Family Model
A strong parent church leads the way but
invites other LEAD Team churches to join in
whatever manner they can.
 Example: Berean and Central OH LEAD Team,
Lead Pastor: Dave Pound.
 Participating LEAD Team churches are
analogous to “aunts and uncles”.
 Funding is driven by the parent church with
some help from others.
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Independent Model
Each LEAD Team church develops its own
church planting mission, spurring one another
on toward “love and good deeds”.
 Example: Washington DC LEAD Team, Head
Coach Ron Crawford
 Funding is not the concern of the LEAD team; it
is the concern of the individual church.
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