How can a church with a heart for church planting have a greater impact through ELI than it could on its own?
What ELI has determined since its inception in 1998 is that there are several pieces involved in creating an organization capable of handling the rapid multiplication of high-impact churches, especially those which are focused on reaching the un-churched. This organization must be focused on recruiting Emerging Leaders and be able to assess potential church planters. It must provide coaching and materials to help them raise support dollars as well as provide back-office and accounting services for tracking the status of individual support accounts. Also needed are a complete training system, coaching and monitoring for the startup and early growth activities of new church plants, and continued support to insure multigenerational church planting occurs. ELI has found that the internal staffing, administrative, and management needs of an organization capable of providing all of the above items is a significant operation in and of itself. Essentially, if an organization undertook this eff
