I am interested in planting a church. What is the next step?
The first step is to see if you are indeed called to be a church planter. We would urge you to take the self-assessment tool found on this webpage. After you have done the self-assessment we want to encourage you to contact us so we can send you information on church planting in the Evangelical Covenant Church. The next step would be to have an initial phone interview with one of our staff. If the pre-assessment process determines that you should go on, we will then send you, and your spouse if you are married, to a formal assessment center to determine if church planting would be the most fruitful ministry area for you. If the assessment center determines that you are indeed a church planter then we will assist you in developing a “well conceived project” that would include the where, the how, the timeline and the funding. We need to say that we are not a pastoral placement agency and do not guarantee placement and a planting project for each pastor. Our church planting is more “botto
