Our church planting pipeline moves leaders from discerning their call to leading healthy, multiplying churches that reach people with the gospel.
Clarify the calling and get a training recommendation.
Acts 29 identifies potential church planters and invites them to submit an interest survey to discern fit and readiness. From there, you receive a clear training recommendation so you know the right next step before moving into development and assessment.
Build a strong foundation before you launch.
Before assessment, church planters gain hands-on experience through apprenticeships and residencies in healthy churches. This season strengthens theological clarity and practical ministry skill.
Confirm readiness with clarity and conviction.
Experienced planters and pastors evaluate a church planter’s calling, theology, leadership capacity, and missional experience through a rigorous assessment process, culminating in a 2-day in-person assessment conference.
Navigate the early years with guidance and support.
Approved planters receive coaching during the demanding early seasons of church planting. This support is designed to help leaders address real-time challenges and move forward with greater clarity and resilience.
Become a base for future planting.
Established churches develop leaders, train others, host residents, and participate in planting again through ongoing collaboration.
Understand the path before you take the next step.
Training, assessment, and coaching designed for long-term health.
Move forward with support from a network built to help you plant and endure.
You may feel the call to plant a church. The vision is compelling. The responsibility is weighty. Without a clear process, many planters experience uncertainty, isolation, or drift.
For more than 25 years, Acts 29 has refined a pathway that replaces guesswork with clarity and surrounds church planters with support and collaboration. Churches planted through Acts 29 have an 87% success rate at the ten-year mark.
This process is designed to remove guesswork and build durability.
Clear expectations about what comes next
Honest feedback that confirms readiness and exposes blind spots
Training environments that build real ministry competence
Coaching that strengthens leadership in the most demanding seasons
Peer relationships that reduce isolation and increase resilience
A pathway oriented toward long-term health and multiplication
This process is designed to help churches start well, grow in health, and endure over time.
The path is clear. The support is real. If you sense the call to plant, the next step is to complete an interest application.