Church Planting:

An Amazing Step By Step Custom Plan
YOU Develop Based on Your Mission

At last!
You can create a complete customized plan from top to bottom -- with ease! There are so many things to think about. Most pastors are afraid they can't manage it all. But now there is a resource containing all, or nearly all, the editable text you need. And it is driven by a software program to put things in the right sequence for you. Its not just text and ideas in a boring data file!

Now you can quickly locate just the right ideas using the hot technology of data mining. Using the System will help you do things right. And it will help you do the right things!

That quote is from a pastor in a very large church and you will get all the powerful resources he has found so helpful. But the focus of the Church Creation™ ToolBox is church planting.

Obviously, a database of ideas can't start a church. It takes people with a focused plan and the power of God. Within that framework consider these advantages of using the Church Creation™ ToolBox.

Or if you just can't wait, scroll down and hit the big "Take The Tour Now!" button and view actual screen captures and some of the content. Click through for any FREE resource and start the ball rolling. We will show you even more of what's in there!

• Your Model: You want to start a church your way. You don't want to be stuck in someone else's church model or style. Intuitively you believe there is a better way to develop a church and you crave the opportunity to do it.
  
  
• Your Choices: You might need some starter fluid! Choose from thousands of well organized ideas. Take what you want; leave the rest. Integrate ideas right into the software from any other good source you can find.
  
  
• Your Pace: You have unique timing needs. Craft a plan just for yourself taking into account all your life circumstances. Let the System help you break it down into simple decisions that when executed get the results you long for.
  
  
• Your Action Plan: Many books and gurus will give you good ideas. Until now, nobody gives you a customizable action plan to put those ideas to work. Your best alternative until now was sticky notes all over your wall! And btw if that works for you at least use this free program! Click to download -- STICKIES.
  
  
• Your Integrated Plan: You have to get everything done at once. Church starting is like cooking Christmas dinner for the first time. You have to know when to put the turkey in the oven and when to get the butter out of the refrigerator. You only get one chance to get it right. The System integrates the schedule for you.
  
  
• Your Survey: Select from a library of possible questions. Ask the questions you want of the target population you choose. Find out in advance how people are likely to respond to your ideas. Let the software crunch the data and give you the meaningful cross-referenced results.
  
  
• Your Life: Your time is limited. Save months of planning. Bring the results forward on your calendar. Imagine the benefits of arriving at the results others get in three years by the end of your first year. You can do it with a well-executed plan. The CC ToolBox provides planning tools second to none!

Been There; Done That ...
In just a few moments I have a proposition for you I think you will love. But first, let me say that someday, when we get to meet in person, I will tell you my whole story. But let me tell you for now, I had my first brush with the notion of starting a church in 1970. In fact, it wasn't until 1980 that I started my first church.

It took me that long to get started because I couldn't figure out where to begin! But now I can confidently say that along with a lot of grace, help from people, careful study and first hand trial and success, we can save you a pile of grief and pain, a bucket of money and weeks, if not months of start up time!

Dream a Little ... What if ...

• Warehouse of Ideas: What if someone took all the best ideas and wrote them into a sophisticated software program?


• Editable: What if you could take all the text, modify at will and contextualize it for your ministry?


• Fast and Efficient: What if in one afternoon you could develop a draft plan to cover all the main issues with a realistic time line?


• Complete Plan: What if with one mouse click you could print out a customized draft plan with everything included?

Estimate the Value ...

• What would it be worth to you to save hundreds of hours of research and writing time?



• How much credibility would it add to your development, recruitment and fund raising if others could see scores, if not hundreds, of pages of your carefully adapted plans? Not a briefcase full of stuff from Tom, Dick, Harry or Bob. This is your own plan with your name on it. Everything in a pleasing consistent professionally pre-designed format.



• What difference would it make to potential launch team members to see that you have all your ducks in a row, but that at the same time nothing is etched in stone and the plan has plenty of flexibility for their input?



• Note to Church Planting Coordinators: What difference would it make to you if you could supply your own customized and coordinated database for your recruits to start with? How much more confidence would that give? How many more potential church planters whose decision is in the balance would see the light if they could have this kind of help?

Telling The Truth ...
In our view, the Church Creation™ ToolBox is the very best value you can buy! Now, you might think we are prejudiced to say that because we compiled it. The reality is, we know most of what is out there. We know there is material out there that can make your heart pound with excitement!

The point is, there is a lot of good material to inspire church starting. And it is all worth considering! But you need a place to reference it and "homogenize it" into one integrated plan.

Finding a Way ...
Until now one couldn't find a place to design their own model while using or adapting all those good ideas they read about or saw first hand in the church plants they visited. You had to extract a piece from here and adapt a piece from there to even attempt to put a plan together.

The difficulty in church planting is that it is not like it is in an existing church. In an existing church 85% of what you do has a precedent from previous history -- often last year. In church starting it is all new. There was no last year!

What is more. People expect you to come up with a "full service dealership" right out of the box. They have no idea how hard that is. As a church planter, you have to find a way to design all your new church stuff from scratch. It just wasn't out there -- that is until now! The best alternative plan is sticky notes all over your head! You do not have a good idea that cannot find a logical home in the Church Creation™ ToolBox. With the Church Creation™ ToolBox you will be able to access every idea in seconds based on your philosophy, your program or your people list -- or all three! It is like having your own private library cataloguing system. But that is just a minor thing considering the robustness of the System.

Gary V Carter

After many people prodding me to add my skill and knowledge of church planting to the already highly successful Ministry ToolBox platform, eventually, I had to listen. So I locked myself away at a B & B and hammered out most of the material that forms the foundation of the Church Creation™ ToolBox. Just me, my Master, my resources, my voice recognition software, a fine porch on a converted Victorian farmhouse and the sunrise over the St. John River. Major brain dump! It was exhilarating! B & B

Approaching the Challenge ...
The incredibly powerful ToolBox platform was already available.

• We started by defining the framework for the philosophy of ministry. That framework is the material in the Church Creation™ ToolBox that remains the same no matter what the culture or context.
  
  That required a fair bit of tweaking with input by other experts in the field. But you can still change it in the Church Creation™ ToolBox if you need to add or subtract something.
  
  
• We include several surveys and questions to use in a variety of contexts. Oh yes, if you want to add some questions and throw some away, just do it!
  
  Comparable software just for the surveying program alone costs much more than the cost of the entire Church Creation™ ToolBox.
  
  
• We drew from all the resources out there the things we usually call church programs and marketing plans. (Your Marketing 101 prof will despise that common misuse of the term. What they really mean is advertising plans. But that is for your Marketing 101 course -- it is worth taking that by the way.)
  
  Remember the philosophy of ministry we just mentioned? Well each piece of the philosophy (56 pieces just to get started and hundreds to have a balanced church) needed to have more than one practical plan to answer the question, "How might we do that?" We found or created practical action plans for each of those pieces of the philosophy.
  
  In fact, because of some overlap at the practical level, each piece of the philosophy has about 5 different practical projects to use to get the job done.
  
  
• Trying to figure out what to do next when you are hacking a path for a church plant can be tough. So we created a practical action plan for everything that was suggested. The plan will get you about half way home on everything it covers.
  
  If you think a particular action item is overkill, it won't hurt our feelings when you hit the delete key! And we sure hope you add some of your own material as you go along.

How Much Can I Save ...
Let's start with this point. If you get your church started one week earlier because of the increased efficiency, you will get one more week of offerings. That "found money" in itself will be more than the cost of the System!

And if you haven't enough friends who believe in you enough to kick in $100 each toward the System, you just might not be the right person to attempt to start a church!

By now you have this figured out; this is not your average resource! For example, you can go out there and buy a church directory program. They might even call it a church management system. But all it does is hold the information about people. You might pay $400 for it. But we have included that too.

You can go out and buy a top flight date book program. Those programs are not so specialized, so you might invest $200 there. But we have that in here too. And it is all linked up to your plan.

You can go out and buy a good surveying program. The price? Brace yourself. Let me give you a clue. If the price isn't on the web site, it's not small! No worries. It also is included.

Bruce Scott the developer of the ToolBox is throwing in our Church Health Survey and Report. Now, in the past Bruce and Gary have charged over $5,000 for the material included in that on a one-church-at-a-time consulting basis.

The major difference is we don't come on site to give you an oral report to back up the written material. Strictly speaking this mechanism doesn't apply until you have an existing church. But you will use it about 6-12 months after you get started. You can buy The Church Health Special Edition separately from this site if you like at $197. But you don't have to. We included it in the Church Creation™ ToolBox.

It is difficult to place a value on the 2500 pages of material to which we give you the complete reprint and editorial rights. You will pay a ghost writer at least $10,000 to write a book with you. You have enough material in there for 10 substantial books. You buy the Church Creation™ ToolBox and you own it all.

What is not included? Well, we don't do desktop publishing in the program. We have budget development tools but we don't do accounting in there. That is pretty much it for the things you might wonder about.

We really don't think that you will argue about the value of this material as justifying the price. Click the "Price & Value Calculation" button and let's find out!

Ahhh. You hesitate! You agree on the value but the cost is much more than you expected or hoped. Is that correct?

For some it is hard to imagine paying that much for software. If that is what you are thinking give yourself a shake! You are not just getting software. You are getting the full rights to 2500 pages of text as if you paid a ghost writer.

Yes, you can put your name on it. The going rate for that service is $.40 a word. There are about a million words in there. That means that to start from scratch and have someone write all this for you, you would be paying $400,000. If you want to do it again from scratch give us a call. We can arrange to invest your $400,000 wisely for you!

But it gets even better!