Resources for Coaching Campus Church Planters

As you may already know, I’m devoting a couple hours/week this year to coaching Pete & Jackie Horning, ACF’s first campus church planting couple. We’ve been meeting regularly over the past month, and it’s been going well.

We generally meet for about 1.5 hours; my goal is to give them an average of 2 hours homework (some weeks may be more or less). I’m also trying to take into account the rhythms of the semester, as well as the fact that they’re both working full-time, and Pete’s also taking some seminary classes.

My role is simply that of “coach,” that is, nuts-and-bolts, Xs and Os, all that stuff. Since Pete and Jackie don’t know exactly which campus (or even city) they’re going to yet, it’s too early to do much of the particular missiological work that will be needed. So in the early going, we’ve been focusing mostly on calling & qualifications, Gospel, missional theology, Gospel, leadership, and Gospel.

As promised, here’s the “syllabus” of what I’m having them read/watch before our discussions for this semester. You’ll see it’s pretty obvious who some of my influences are. So far, our biggest problem is not having enough time to discuss it all. What do you think? Anything you would add? (I have a lot more in the hopper–we’ll have winter break and spring semester as well).

Week 1: CALLING: Articles: “10 Characteristics of a Church Planter,” and “20 Characteristics, annotated”

http://www.acts29network.org/mediafiles/60microskills.pdf

http://www.acts29network.org/acts-29-blog/am-i-a-church-planter/ —Scott Thomas

Week 2: CALLING: Video: The Ox: Qualifications of a Church Planter—Mark Driscoll

http://theresurgence.com/mark_driscoll_2008-02-26_video_tnc_the_ox–qualifications_of_a_church_planter

Week 3: CAMPUS MINISTRY: Articles: “The Need for Missional Campus Ministry,”  “Church, Parachurch, and the Third Way,” and “The 5 Big Issues in Campus Ministry Today” by Steve Lutz http://stevelutz.wordpress.com/resources, plus start The Prodigal God

Week 4: GOSPEL: Book: The Prodigal God, by Tim Keller (book)

Week 5: MISSIOLOGY: Video: Biblical Missiology—Jeff Vanderstelt

http://theresurgence.com/jeff_vanderstelt_2008-02-27_video_tnc_biblical_missiology

Article: The Missional Church, Tim Keller

http://setsnservice.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/missional-church-keller-2-0-tony-stiff.pdf

Week 6: CHRISTOLOGY: Book: Vintage Jesus, by Mark Driscoll

Week 7: MISSIOLOGY: Video: Our Mission—Daniel Montgomery

http://theresurgence.com/Montgomery_Our-Mission-video

Article: Reading the Bible Missionally, Tony Stiff

http://setsnservice.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/reading-the-bible-missionally-beta-version2.pdf

Week 8: Conference: Acts29 Boot Camp in Louisville, KY 11/10-11

http://www.acts29network.org/event/2009-11-10-louisville-boot-camp–louisville-ky/

Week 9: DISCIPLESHIP: Book: The Master Plan of Evangelism, Robert Coleman

Week 10: LEADERSHIP: Video: Leading the Mission, Darrin Patrick

http://theresurgence.com/darrin_patrick_2008-02-27_video_tnc_leading_the_mission

Article: Missional Communities at the Austin Stone Church

http://www.austinstone.org/what/group_faq

Week 11: BIBLE: Book: The Drama of Scripture, Bartholemew & Goheen

Week 12: GOSPEL: Video: How Do I Distinguish Between the Gospel and False Gospels—John Piper http://theresurgence.com/john_piper_2008-02-26_video_tnc_how_do_i_distinguish_between_the_gospel_and_false_gospels

Article: Religion-less Spirituality http://www.theresurgence.com/tim_keller_1996_religionless_spirituality

Week 13: SPIRITUAL VITALITY: Book: The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer