LAUNCH is a nine-month residency program designed to help church planters develop the thinking and skill sets necessary to plant churches through prayer, compassionate ministry and kingdom advancing church planting.

1. Vision and Mission
2. How is it Different
3. Curriculum
4. Objectives
5. Time & Location
6. Syllabus and Schedule

Vision

The vision of LAUNCH is to develop values and best-practices that knit society together at the grass-roots level to bring forth signs of restoration.

Mission

The mission of LAUNCH is to cast a vision of restoration to leadership within domains of cities.

How it is different

• LAUNCH is a maximizing school.

  It does not focus on developing new leaders. Instead, it focuses on maximizing the ability of leaders who are already demonstrating leadership in the lives of others.

• LAUNCH is relational.

  Leaders need to be able to rub shoulders with other leaders to grow and be challenged. Launch is not just designed to communicate information that will create a successful church. Instead, it puts leaders in discussion based environments that facilitate a leadership community that extends beyond the classes themselves.

• LAUNCH is evolving.

  Launch is taught be practitioners who are actively engaged in the church planting process. Therefore, the information is always fresh and right from the context of a church that is actively being planted in the community. This aspect keeps LAUNCH from becoming an outdated process, but a constantly evolving system of best-practices for transforming communities through church planting.

Curriculum

LAUNCH allows anyone to access the curriculum from the website. As more leaders go through LAUNCH and plant churches, there will be more best-practices that will come back to the site keeping the information fresh and applicable to reaching today's culture. Click here to view the reading list.

Objectives

Church Planters who successfully complete their residency should be able to do the following:

1. Understand role as a Church Planter
2. Develop a strategy to plant churches that connects local to global for the world
3. Develop a strategy for prayer
4. Develop a strategy for community compassionate ministry
5. Develop a strategy for kingdom-advancing church multiplication
6. Develop a strategy for engaging the domains of society
7. Develop and maintain strategy for assimilation
8. Develop and maintain partnership networks
9. Understand the importance of glocal missions
10. Understand City Reaching through Church Planting

Time & Location

LAUNCH is meeting every Thursday Night from 6:30pm - 9:00pm at
Cuyahoga Valley Church
5055 East Wallings Road, Cleveland, OH

Syllabus and Schedule

See the attachments below to view a sample syllabus and speaker schedule.