Introducing the High Impact Residency Program

Path 1 Planters Residency 2021-22 Monthly Webinar Schedule

(Note: Each webinar takes place at 1 p.m. Central time.)

April 13, 2021

Webinar 1: Introduction and Understanding Ourselves and Our Call to Plant

• Thirty-thousand-foot view of the planting process (listen and engage context; form connected relationships; love and serve your community; gather a faith community; explore discipleship rhythms).
• Stages of development and metrics.
  • Milestones to consider at each stage.
• Understand your own call to plant (share the convergence activity – how does planting fit into your own story?).

MAY 11, 2021

Webinar 2: Why Plant Churches?

• Look at planting legacy in The United Methodist Church.
• Participants share their own “Why” statements.
• Focus on innovation and the post-Christendom context and what that means for planting.
• Unpack the three primary motivations/paradigms for planting (confessional, church growth, innovation).

JUNE 8, 2021

Webinar 3: Church Planting and Leading in a Digital Age

• Variety – Don’t get stuck on repeat.
• Engagement is the new gold standard.
• Build teams, empower people, develop leaders.
• Use social media.

Links to resources shared during this webinar:

• Check loading speeds on your website
• Planning Center
• Hootsuite
• Newstory

JULY 13, 2021

Webinar 4: Mission-Centered Church

• “God does not have a mission for the church but a church for the mission.” In this webinar, we will discuss the central call of the church to be on mission with God in the world.
• Look at how colonialism has distorted our calling and affected planting.
• Talk about guesting and hosting.

AUGUST 10, 2021

Webinar 5: Identifying Mosaics and Developing a Listening Strategy
Where do I start listening to my context and meeting new people?

• Continue conversations around guesting and hosting.
• Look at where to go to practice guesting and practical ways to do that.
• Discuss how to make and track new contacts. Participants will learn how to exegete their context and understand why that is important.
• Discuss three models of listening from anthropology.
• Introduce new tools, including MissionInsite and Gloo.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Webinar 6: Gospel and Evangelism

• What is the gospel and how do we make it meaningful?
• What is ethical evangelism?

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Webinar 7: Doing One-to-Ones

• One-to-ones are simple tools developed by community organizers for listening, connecting, and organizing people around their passions.

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Webinar 8: Starting Something

• Participants discuss how to start something using the process laid out in the book Get Together.

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Webinar 9: Building Your Core Team

• Forming, storming, norming, performing.
• Finding and building a team.

JANUARY 11, 2022

Webinar 10: Creating a Community Identity

• Planters will discuss how to develop an identity for their new congregation.
• Planters and their teams will work with tools to create their new identity.

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Webinar 11: Creating a Rule of life

• Staying healthy and whole as leaders while doing the work of planting.
• Creating a rule of life and sharing stories of burn out.
• Discussing fear and failure.

MARCH 15, 2022

Webinar 12: Creating a Vision/Leading Strategically

• Breaking down tasks, identifying milestones, and developing a timeline.
• Beginning to prepare final planting plan for church developers.