Clarity Before Commitment
Understand the path before you take the next step.
Plant With Clarity, Support, and a Trusted Network
Learn what to expect as you move through the Acts 29 church planting pipeline, including timeline, support, and next steps.
Support at Every Stage
Training, assessment, and coaching designed for long-term health.
Regional and Peer Support
Move forward with support from a network built to help you plant and endure.
A Clear Journey, Not a Shortcut
Church planting is not a single decision. It is a multi-year calling that requires formation, discernment, and support.
Acts 29 walks with church planters from initial calling to long-term faithfulness through a clear, intentional process that prioritizes health over speed. For more than 25 years, this pipeline has helped church planters move forward with clarity and wise counsel.
What to Expect Through the Pipeline
The Acts 29 church planting pipeline walks a church planter through every stage of the planting journey, from simply considering planting to launching a new church and prayerfully repeating the process with others to multiply and plant more churches. Each stage is designed to help church planters move forward with greater clarity, readiness, and support.
Recruit
Acts 29 identifies potential church planters and invites them to submit an interest survey to discern fit and readiness. This stage helps clarify where to begin and what next step makes the most sense.
Outcome: You gain clarity on where to begin and what preparation is needed before you move forward.
Train
Church planters gain hands-on experience through an Acts 29 residency or apprenticeship in a healthy church. This season strengthens theological clarity, ministry skill, and readiness for what comes next.
Outcome: You enter assessment with proven experience and preparation.
Typical timeline: 12 to 24 months
Assess
Assessment provides honest clarity about readiness to plant. Experienced planters evaluate calling, theology, leadership capacity, and missional experience through a rigorous process.
Outcome: You gain confidence to move forward or clarity on what is still needed.
Typical timeline: 3 to 6 months
Coach
Approved planters receive coaching while launching their church. You meet regularly with peers and an experienced coach to navigate the demanding early seasons of planting. Coaching begins in the early years of planting, with support that often spans the first 2 to 4 years and continues through ongoing relationship in the network.
Outcome: You lead with support instead of isolation.
Typical timeline: Support often spans the first 2 to 4 years of planting.
Multiply
As churches mature, leaders train others, host residents, and participate in planting again. Healthy churches collaborate regionally and globally and invest financially in future planting.
Outcome: An established church that is self-sustaining, self-governing, and self-replicating.
Typical timeline: Ongoing
What You Receive Through the Acts 29 Church Planting Pipeline
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
Who This Process Serves Best
Church planters who flourish in Acts 29 tend to be:
- Relationally healthy
- Theologically grounded
- Focused on reaching the unchurched
- Teachable and open to feedback
- Committed to making disciples and developing leaders
- Evangelistic
- Spiritually mature
Take the Next Faithful Step
If you sense the call to plant and want clarity about what is involved, the next step is to fill out an interest survey.