10 Types of People You Want In Your Church Planting Team

It has been said that ‘beggars can’t be choosers’, and nowhere is this more true than for a church planter who is trying to gather people to their team. 

The reality of a church plant is that you always have a few less people than you would consider ideal. Come to think of it, this doesn’t ever really change as the church becomes more established. In a church planting context though, the pressure feels more acute than ever. When a new family could increase your numbers by 50% or a few people away could make it so your meeting is barely viable, then you want all the people that you can get.

This is important. People are your most precious commodity in a church plant, and at this stage we need to work hard for each and every person we are able to gather to the cause. It would be neither strategic nor godly to be too discriminating about our team. Part of the challenge of church planting is figuring out how to build something using what we have in front of us. 

Nevertheless, there are certain types of people who are absolute dynamite in a church planting setting. Where possible you should be looking to add these kinds of people to your team, and you should do what you can to foster these qualities both in yourself and in those alongside you.