What Do I Do at Launch Team Meetings?

Pt. 1 Building a Launch Team is Priority One

Pt. 2 How Big Should the Launch Team Be?

Pt. 3 Who Should Be Excluded from the Church?

Pt. 4 Should I use a launch team covenant?

Pt. 5 How Do I Build Momentum with the Launch Team?

Launch team meetings are DNA setting experiences.  What you do and communicate at these meetings matter.  This is where the vision and values of the church begin to be lived out.  First and foremost, launch team meetings are vision casting experiences.  The church planter should be planning out what will be communicated at new member or 101 level classes.  This is your playbook.  If you are on this team, these are the plays we run and how we run them.  It is crucial that the church planter communicate the playbook to the launch team and ensure that the entire team play according to it.  Remember that you are setting the DNA.  It doesn’t matter what is in the playbook, if no one plays by it.

It’s also important to remember that what you are launching is public services.  From the beginning your launch team is the church.  Therefore, the church planter should balance business meetings with time together to worship. In fact, launch team meetings may be a terrible thing to call your gatherings.  The word meetings communicates business and for many church meeting communicates pointless and boring.

Alan Hirsh in his book, The Forgotten Ways, says there are three key elements to church: worship, discipleship and mission.  Launch team meetings should include aspects of all these.  If launch Sunday is the first time your launch team has done these three things together, chances are you have missed the chance to ingrain these habits in the church DNA.

  1. Great you on point
    Launch team meetings are to build the kind of Church culture you would want the Church to have before it takes off. I also believe that launch team meetings must be a close one solely for the team for training, stratgesing, etc.

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