Multihousing Church Planting
The Church That Meets At The House
Readiness
Readiness
The Church Planting Process
“Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my
fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
who risked their own necks for
my life, to who not only I give
thanks, but also all the churches
of the Gentiles. Likewise greet
the church that is in their
house.”
Romans 16:3-5
“Hear
Readiness
the cries
of those who
live in
Multihousing”
Then Jesus made a circuit of all the
towns and villages. He taught in
their meeting places, reported
kingdom news, and healed their
diseased bodies, healed their bruised
and hurt lives. When he looked out
over the crowds, his heart broke. So
confused and aimless they were, like
sheep with no shepherd, the
overlooked and ignored.
Matthew 9:35-36 (The Message)
“What is worst
than being lost?”
Being lost and not
having anyone
looking for you.”
Chuck Kelly,
NOBTS
Multihousing is multiple
family communities.
They may be attached or
in close proximity with
shared amenities and
regulations.
Multihousing may look like this...
Private Apartment Communities
Multihousing may look like
this…
Condominium Communities
Multihousing may look like
this…
Community Associations
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this…
Community Associations
Multihousing may look like
this…
Manufactured Housing
Multihousing may look like
this…
Public Housing Communities
Multihousing may look like
this…
Senior Housing Communities
Multihousing may look like
this…
Collegiate Housing
Communities
Multihousing may look like
this…
Gated Communities
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this…
Marina Communities
Multihousing may look like
this…
Live Work and Play
Communities
Multihousing Industry Categories
A-Upper Income
Readiness
B- Middle Income
C-Partially Subsidized
D-Fully Subsidized
National Multihousing
Council
The missing partner…
Readiness
The church
North American
Population
Canada: 32,795,223
United States: 300,933,719
333,728,942
57% of
the North
American
population live
in Multihousing
communities
Readiness
This translates
into a
Mutlihousing
population of
190,225,497
Readiness
96% of
multihousing
community
residents are
unchurched
2001 NAMB Study
“If they won’t
come to church,
then we’ll take
church to them.”
Tillie Burgin
Tillie Burgin
Readiness
“Find out what their
needs are…let’s be
resident driven not
church driven.”
Barbara Oden
Barbara Oden
Texas Multihousing
Consulting
Daniel Sanchez, Houston
“Apartment Life is dedicated to
helping you improve the quality
of life and the value of your
apartment communities. We
look forward to serving you as
together we transform
apartment living in America!”
Stan Dobbs
Stan Dobbs
Apartment Life
Midtown Bridge
Atlanta, Georgia
Larry Grays and family
Colorado Missional
Multihousing Network
Bobby Dean
Scotty Brewer
Mission Raleigh, North Carolina
Community of Hope
Montgomery, Alabama
Chris McNairy
Neal Hughes, President
Readiness
Holy Indicators of
God’s Activity in The
Multihousing World
“My Father is always at
His work…”
John 5:17a
-Multihousing
Communities are
more open than
ever before to
the gospel!
Readiness
- Multihousing is
the fastest
growing real
estate industry
soon to become
the preferred
choice of housing!
Readiness
- Multihousing
Management and
Corporations have
put out the welcome
mat for the church
to come and begin
new work!
Readiness
- Immigrants are a
major player in the
North American
Church Planting
Movement, and guess
where they are
moving to…
multihousing.
Readiness
-Despite church
decline, “alternative
forms of worship
are growing
significantly”.
Source: The Barna Report (10-24-05)
Readiness
Priority of Prayer
“The harvest is plentiful,
but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the
harvest, therefore to send
out workers into his
harvest field.” Luke 10:2
Lives Changed By Jesus
Christ!
The fields are ready. Are you
ready?
• Application
What has God
revealed about the
readiness of your
setting for
multihousing church
planting?
Break Time
Multihousing Church Planting
The Church That Meets At The House
Enlistment
Enlistment
The Church Planting Process
First Century Church
Planting in The
Twenty-first
Century
Laity the Heroes
“A leader making a
culture where
laypeople become the
heroes.”
Dale Galloway
“If you want to learn
how to do church
planting become a
student of the book
of Acts”
K.C. Crino
Church in The House
Seven Prime Principles
1. The principle of relying
on the Holy Spirit
expressed through the
priority of prayer in
church planting.
Jerusalem
Church in The House
Seven Prime Principles
2. The principle of church
health incorporated into
the DNA of the new church
from the beginning
expressed through a
church focused on missions.
Antioch
Church in The House
Seven Prime Principles
3. The principle of the
“person of peace” with the
priority of evangelism
expressed through sharing
the gospel along
relationship lines.
Philippi
Church in The House
Seven Prime Principles
4. The principle of the
centrality of God’s Word
expressed through consistently
communicating the message of
the resurrection of Jesus
Christ.
Thessalonica
Church in The House
Seven Prime Principles
5. The principle of cultural
relevance while maintaining
biblical integrity in church
planting methodology
expressed in discovering points
of contact for evangelistic
efforts.
Athens
Church in The House
Seven Prime Principles
6. The principle of
generosity expressed in
Christian stewardship
utilizing the resources that
are found in the harvest.
Corinth
Church in The House
Seven Prime Principles
7. The principle of spiritual
warfare in behalf of
individuals, communities and
culture expressed in
deliverance from the evil one
through the planting of
churches.
Ephesus
Planting the Gospel that
leads to Planting
Churches
Volunteer Revolution!
“Your people shall be
volunteers in the
day of Your
power…”
Psalm 110:3
NKJV
Share with your
group a rewarding
experience from
when you
volunteered to
help a church
plant?
Enlist Who?
Kingdom-Minded Churches
God-Called Leaders
“Here am I send me”
Isaiah 6
Kingdom-Minded
Churches
Sponsoring Church
Enlistment
to
Multihousing
Communities
People Search
“A process to see
and understand the
diverse people who
live in Multihousing
Sites in your region.”
Multihousing Residents
Perceive…
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Church wants money
People dress one way
Church is unfriendly
Church people don’t want us
Afraid they will not behave
properly
• Church doesn’t care about our
problems
Partners in Church
Planting (PiCP)
The PiCP helps churches identify
their place in partnership
planting.
Praying Down
The Walls
Enlistment
“A Multihousing Strategy to
Engage the Church to Go to the
Multihousing Communities”
PDW Components
Moving the Church Beyond The
Four Walls…
1. Identify
2. Adopt
3. Pray
4. Decide
God-Called
Leaders
“One good test of a
good leader, rather
than “How much have
I done?” needs
instead to be “How
many others have I
involved?”
Dr. Dennis Williams
SBTS
Enlistment
Key Principles
from the book
of Acts with
Multihousing
Implications for
Enlistment
Priority of Prayer
Ask of me…
“The Acts Pattern”
Indigenous
Leaders
Persons of Peace
“The Acts Pattern”
“Often, the person of peace has
the church meet in their home
and may even be the new leader
of the emerging church. A
church that starts this way is
unique in that it is born out of
the harvest, and is bent on a
mission to continue reaching
the lost.”
Neil Cole, Organic Church
Oikos
Household Network
“The Acts Pattern”
Enlistment
The Outside In Approach
Paul The Missionary
Macedonian People
(Acts 16)
Outside In
Acts 16
Enter the Area
Evangelize the Community
Equip the Believers
Empower the Leaders
Exit with Joy
Enlistment
The Inside Out Approach
Peter the Missionary
Cornelius the Seeker
(Acts 10)
Inside Out
Acts 10
Invitation from God
Initiate the Connection
Impart the Gospel
Ignite the Revival Flames
Invest in the New Church
Epoch
A process to
engage missional
leaders in the
harvest
Epoch“An extended period of time ushered
in by the brokenness and faithful
praying of God’s people; bringing
forth the sending of everyday Christ
followers into the harvest to
establish relational-based, mission
focused, faith communities which
results in the reduction of lostness
among all people groups in North
America.”
Enlistment
The One Word
Secret to Volunteer
Recruitment is
“ASK”
1. ASK God
2. ASK the
Potential Worker
Application:
What has God
revealed to you about
enlisting Multihousing
workers for the
harvest?
Break Time
Multihousing Church Planting
The Church That Meets in the House
Equipping
Equipping
The Church Planting Process
Share about a
time when God
used you to
equip another
person to serve
in ministry.
Equipping
“And He Himself gave some to be
apostles, some prophets, some
evangelists, and some pastors and
teachers, for the equipping of the
saints for the work of ministry, for
the edifying of the body of Christ,
till we all come to the unity of the
faith and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, to a perfect man, to the
measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ.”
Ephesians 4:11-13
NKJV
Venues for Equipping
• One to One
• Missional Networks
• Web Based
• Learning
Labs/Workshops
Equipping
Essentials For
Multihousing
Church Planting
Multihousing Small
Groups-Community
Equipping
“About making disciples not
just decisions…”
Jerusalem
Disciple making
Multihousing Mentoring
Equipping
“Living in the dust of the
Rabbi…”
Antioch
Developing Leaders
Multihousing People
Groups
Equipping
“All Kinds of Churches for all
Kinds of People.”
Rick Warren
Philippi
Vision
Multihousing Evangelism
Equipping
“Sharing Christ in the power
of the Holy Spirit and
leaving the results to God.”
Thessalonica
Gospel Message
Multihousing
Relationships
Equipping
“The Bible is a book about
relationships—a
relationship with God.”
Athens
Points of Connection
Multihousing Church
Planting Team
Equipping
“TEAM-together everyone
accomplishes more.”
Corinth
Gift-based
Multihousing Strategy
“People who go to Multihousing
communities are on the front
lines in this battle for souls.”
Ephesus
Spiritual Warfare
Equipping
Multihousing
Management Issues
Job easier
Profit
Retention
Quality of life
Legal concerns
Equipping
Multihousing
Volunteer Issues
Discovery
Mobilization
Logistics
Recognition
Follow Up
Equipping
Multihousing
Commitment Issues
Renewal
Rejection
Isolation
Perseverance
Celebration
Equipping
Indigenous
Indigenous
Indigenous
Equipping
On The Job
Training
• Application:
What has God
revealed to you about
equipping others to
plant multihousing
congregations?
Break Time
Multihousing Church Planting
The Church That Meets in the House
New Church
Strengthening and
Reproduction
The Church Planting Process
New Church
Strengthening
Survivability
A Key Issue for
Multihousing Church
Planting
68% Of SBC
New Churches
2007 NAMB Study
Multihousing
Survivability
* Define Success
* Legacy Churches
* Congregations
* Ministries
Bi-vocational
Leadership Skills
Focus
Time
Training
Attitude
Fellowship
Church Leadership
Function Skills
Preaching
Baptism
Lord’s Supper
Stewardship
Administration
DNA
of
Multihousing
Church Planting
Develop
New
Multihousing
Resources
Site Specific with
Healthy Church Focus
Reproduction
“The way 185 million in
Multihousing will have
the opportunity to
hear the gospel where
they live.”
“Anything that is
healthy will
reproduce.”
Richard Harris
NAMB Church Planting Group
Do you see yourself
working alone?
Are you looking at
planting one tree?
Reproduction
Or are you looking
at an orchard?
Huntsville Texas
David Valentine
Multihousing Multiplication
Ex-offenders
Regional Learning Labs
…is a partnering church
actively engaged in
multiplying the principles
learned from their planting
experiences, resulting in
new church
sponsors/churches through
consistent training and
demonstration.
Regional Learning Labs
Orlando, Florida…Atlanta, Georgia…Columbia, South
Carolina…
Winston Salem / Raleigh, North Carolina…
Richmond / Washington, D.C….
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania….New York City, New York…
Prince Edward Island, Canada….Montreal, Canada….
Toronto, Canada…Rochester, New York…Green Bay, Wisconsin…
Detroit, Michigan…Chicago, Illinois…Cincinnati, Ohio…
The State of West Virginia…
Memphis, Tennessee / Little Rock, Arkansas…
Springfield, Missouri…
Montgomery, Alabama… Gulf Port, Mississippi…
Lafayette, Louisiana…
Houston /D/FW / San Antonio / Amarillo, Texas
Kansas City / Omaha, Nebraska…
St. Louis, Missouri / East St. Louis, Illinois…Denver, Colorado...
Mesa, Arizona…Reno, Nevada… Los Angeles, California…
Seattle, Washington…The State of Montana
A Weekend Workshop
may look like this…
* Teach on Friday
night/Saturday Morning
* Show on Saturday Afternoon
* Commission on Sunday Morning
* Follow Up in the Days to Come
Reproduction
Worldview Based
Church Planting
Project
Bosnian, Oaxaca, Wolof, African American
Low Income, Anglo Urban Post Modern,
Native American Urban, Somali, Fujinese,
Appalachian, Navajo, Urba Pakistanis,
Japanese, Russian Rurba
Worldview Based
Church Planting Project
“God seeks to form one
people for His Name
from all the people
groups for His glory and
worship”
Van Sanders
National Association
of Multihousing
Ministry and
Congregations
Annual Meeting
New York City
August 16-17
Parable of the Talents
43,000 SBC Churches
10% 5 to 10
4,300 x 10=43,000
10% 2 to 4
4,300 X 4=17,200
80% 1 to 1
34, 300 x 1=34,300
Total: 94,300 Multihousing Works!
Every Baptist Association in
North America plant at
least 20 new multihousing
churches by the year 2020.
1289 Baptist Associations in
SBC and Canada x 20 New
Total:
25,780 Multihousing
Works!
“How is this going
to help the
kingdom of God?”
• Application:
Share in your group
what God has revealed
to you about new
church strengthening
and reproduction.
I am here to serve you!
Bob Burton
Multihousing National Missionary
North American Mission Board
bburton@namb.net
678-386-4948
www.namb.net
www.churchplantingvillage.net
www.experiencemultihousing.net