2.  Lack of Experience  Feeling the Need for Speed (Volunteers)  No Core Leaders

3.  Feeling the Need for Speed (Paid Staff)  Need for Resources  Realities for Reproduction

4.  The BiVo Challenge  Tension Over Talking/Teaching About Giving

5.  Limited Budget Experience  Flow of Funds Trap  Personal Financial Impact

6.  Healthy Launch Teams Are Mission Critical When Seeking to Start in the Way We Discussed  Church Planting Is a Team Sport

7.  Pre-Launch Tasks vs. Relationships  A Core Group of Believers Is Not Always a Good Thing  New Church Core Teams Experience Fallout

8.  God’s Part and Our Part  A Fix-It Mentality  Assessing Health

9.  Pre-Launch Behaviors  Urgency and Accountability

10.  Clarity  Core Values  Mission, Vision, and Values

11.  Ministry Philosophy  Non-Negotiables

12. Five challenges: 1. Multiple time demands 2. Discerning how to practice faith in a world not limited to direct evangelism only 3. Living incarnationally and engaging in culture 4. Implementing a deliberate evangelistic and disciple-making strategy 5. Making small groups work

13. Two observations:  Distracted by the Planting Process  Internal Scorecard

14.  Battle to overcome pride, self-reliance, drivenness, and an uncoachable attitude  Loneliness and isolation

15.  Mistrust  Lack of rest  Maintaining joy

16.  Challenges of planting commonly result in discouragement and loneliness  A rigorous assessment process is necessary  Spousal support systems should be added to church planting systems

17.  Peer-to-peer relationships and networks are vital  Getting systems in place is key before going public  Church planting mentors and coaches are important  Discerning the difficult and painful decision between quitting and persevering