Church Planting Survey Results
I had a request from @MarcWright to share more about the survey I did with Passion 4 Planting last year. I mentioned it in a previous post: Church Planting Patterns Its All About Relationships. The study surveyed 88 churches between years 2 – 5 of the life of the new church. Here’s what we found: Churches who had a launch team of 41 or more people had an average opening Sunday attendance of 340 people and were more likely to be planning to start a second campus, venue, church. Churches who had a launch team 40 and under had an average opening Sunday attendance of 142. These smaller launch teams were also more likely to struggle to develop enough leaders (67% vs. 50%), have enough funds (57% vs. 40%) and recruit enough volunteers (56% vs. 43 %) to run the ministries of the church. What makes this even more interesting is that the churches with larger launch teams that reported have trouble developing enough leaders and volunteers noted that the problem was due to growth. In other words they were growing, and this was a natural growing pain. This highlights in practical ways the importance of building a launch team prior to starting the church.
Doug Foltz 
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