Three critical questions church planters wrestle with

What are the critical questions that potential church planters face? Church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee discuss three of those questions, including how church planters get paid, how to transition into the church planter role and how church planting could affect the church planter's family.

1:11 - First question: How do I get paid?


4:40 - How long did it take Danny's and Lee's churches to become self-sustaining?


6:50 - Danny explains why he is passionate about raising financial support before planting a church


7:25 - Danny explains what to consider in establishing a pastor's salary package before launching a church plant


8:33 - Danny and Lee discuss specific metrics that have been successful in establishing a pastor's salary


11:07 - Lee and Danny talk about the challenge of health insurance and options to explore


14:19 - Second question: Now that I know I'm called to plant, how do I transition into that role?


15:43 - Danny and Lee talk about the importance of communication and clear expectations between a church planter and his current ministry employer during the transition


17:50 - Lee and Danny talk about how a church planter and his current church can address how to approach potential difficult situations together


22:59 - Question 3: How is this going to affect my family?


23:29 - Danny discusses how planting a church effected his marriage, and how things changed after they had children


24:38 - Lee talks about the important role his marriage played during his church planting experience


25:42 - Lee talks about the church planting experience for his young children and the importance of protecting his family and training them how to have key conversations


27:35 - Danny remembers how much fun his children had during the church planting experience


28:25 - Lee shares the most important advice he could give a church planter about family life


28:58 - Lee and Danny talk about the boundaries they put in place to guard his family and his physical and emotional health