Plant Course

How to plant and survive

Understand your strengths and weaknesses as a leader, assessing how you are leading yourself through the intense planting process.

1. Bible thought

5 minutes

2. What's in your wake

22 minutes

3. True self or false self?

30 minutes

4. Managing conflict

27 minutes

5. Plant Story: Share Matson, Gloucester

9 minutes

Case studies of church plants help ground the ideas you encounter in the Plant Course. Watch the story of Share Matson, Gloucester.

Additional resources

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