These are some helpful resources for laypeople and clergy involved in church planting. They are from several ecclesiastical traditions and reflect numerous cultures. A variety of sources provides some of the balance needed as you strategize for new church development.

+ Getting Started: A Church Planting Handbook for Laypeople by Brad Boydston.

+ Small, Clustered Multiplying Churches by Brad Boydston.

+ A Church Planter’s Paradise

+ Church Planting Center from some Seventh Day Adventists.

+ MisLinks -- Gateway into church planting resources, demographics, denominational sites, articles, parachurch organizations, coaching and consultants.

+ YourResource for Church Planting from the Evangelical Free Church.

+ NewStart from the Church of the Nazarene.

+ NewChurches.com resources and connections from Ed Stetzer, Southern Baptist Orientation.

+ Anglican Mission in America -- lay initiated church planting

+ Alliance for Saturation Church Planting, resources for EurAsia. See their Omega Course for church planters (.pdf files).

+ The Church Planter’s Network. Resource from the Easum Bandy Associates.

+ Church Planting in the Evangelical Covenant Church.

+ YWAM church planting coaches

+ The Vineyard Central House Church Guidebook — .pdf handbook to a networked approach to house churches.