National Voice
We seek to provide a national platform and voice for a movement of healthy, reproducing high-impact churches. We serve as an advocate and intermediary for helping connect Kingdom-minded entrepreneurs and unaffiliated church planting leaders into this movement. One key element of this voice is innovative distribution channels that help champion the cause of church planting to the broadest possible audience.
Why are innovative distribution channels a key strategic focus?
The point of influence in our world is increasingly becoming less about content and more about content distribution. While the Gospel message remains the same, the new and evolving channels for distributing the message are exploding in our technology driven age. In our mission to create a national voice and advocacy for church planting, it is vital that we engage and provide innovative content distribution channels. The Exponential Conference is one key element of distribution at the national level. Our two other key elements include the equivalent of an online church planting television network that provides live streaming and archived content delivery options for our affiliates / leaders via ExponentialChannel.com and a Signature Book Series via our publishing platform. The leaders and organizations that are and will affiliate are interested in getting their content and message distributed. We add value by coming alongside and helping them do what God is already at work doing through them. We seek to live out a "you can do it, we can help" approach.
5 Key Initiatives
Exponential Conference
This annual conference is now the largest in North America (and possibly the world) gathering over 3,000 church planting leaders each year in Orlando, FL for inspiration, encouragement, equipping and challenge. The conference features 15 pre-conference intensives, 7 main tracks, over 60 national speakers, and over 50 national service providers. Imagine the energy of 3,000 entrepreneurial leaders gathered in one place. Click here to visit the conference web site.
ExponentialChannel.com
The equivalent of an online cable television network for church planting. This innovative web portal allows individuals and organizations to broadcast conferences, meetings, and training materials to large groups of people via the equivalent of a television channel broadcast via the web. The conference feature is now live and will broadcast elements of many national church planting events including the Exponential Conference.
The system is currently being expanded to allow any leader or organization to create their own free customized channel within minutes. Users will select a template layout (e.g. 1, 2, or 3 columns, with or without headers) and then drag and drop specific plug-in applications such as streaming video, photo albums, twitter, text, images, and RSS feeds into the desired location on the page. Users will have the option to include their page in the ExponentialChannel searchable guide for other users to find. The individual user customized channels will debut in early 2009. Click here to visit the ExponentialChannel.com web site.
Publishing
We've partnered with Zondervan Publishing and Leadership Network to champion a Signature book series on church planting. We are publishing 2 – 3 books per year via this signature series. Click here to learn more.
Converge
A powerful tool yet simple web-based tool available to any new church or church planting organization for managing the pre-launch phase of new churches. Planters, coaches, supervisors and management teams all have instant access via their own account to the status and priorities of the new church. A library of resources can be delivered via the system including templates, worksheets, audio and video training, etc. Our newest user community version allows any organization to install the system on their own server to control / customize content and manage users. This new version allows organizations to create their entire organizational structure virtually on the web and to oversee a local, regional or national network of church plants via dashboard indicators. Click here to visit the Converge web site.
Leadership Gatherings / Forums
We convene small group gatherings of national church planting leaders for the purpose of support, encouragement, fellowship and accountability to those who are engaged in championing healthy reproducing churches. These relational gatherings provide a forum for sharing best practices, fostering collaboration, and identifying leading edge innovations.