Organizations
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Most church planters feel overwhelmed by the organizational, financial, and legal logistics that are required when starting a church. This site gives you a clear step-by-step checklist and walks you through the process, eliminating stress and allowing you to focus on the more relational and pastoral-specific areas of church planting. Dr. Rios has used them for her church plants in the past.
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Our Founder serves on the Missiologist Council of this organization that operates as a think tank for church planting in North America. Visit their website for the latest research on church planting.
Books
Being Latino in Christ: Finding Wholeness in Your Ethnic Identity
Another Way: Living and Leading Change on Purpose
Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World
Buried Seeds: Learning from the Vibrant Resilience of Marginalized Christian Communities
Calling in Context: Social Location and Vocational Formation
Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church
Faithful Antiracism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change
ReJesus: Remaking the Church in Our Founder's Image
Liberating Church: A Twenty-First Century Hush Harbor Manifesto (Voices)
Seeing Jesus in East Harlem: What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put
Skin Deep: Pentecostalism, Racism and the Church
The Race-Wise Family: Ten Postures to Becoming Households of Healing and Hope
The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches
Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance
The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church
Other Resources
Church Planting Manifesto
Church Planting Articles & Research - General
On Latinos/the Latino Church/Latino Evangelicals
