CPP Administrators, We Need Your Input!
2024-07-15 17:28:21
Help us improve by taking a quick survey in Spanish. Your feedback is crucial!
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Church Planter Blog
2020-05-12 21:56:29
GLI Church Planting has partnered with many church planters across the country. Recently a church planter wrote a blog post for us from a female perspective.
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New Golden Report
2017-12-19 10:10:06
We at GLI are committed to providing Agencies with the most effective tools possible in assessing Church Platers. I am writing to let you know that we are upgrading the Golden Personality Report to the newest 5.1 version. We are excited to announce that we have upgraded the assessment to Golden Personality version 5.1 and the vital new information it will provide to you. We sent out an email to all agency administrations which included a sample of the new report along with a list of FAQ's. You will find the FAQ's below.
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Understanding CPP Reports
2016-08-24 14:38:06
With many new agencies joining CPP. We wanted to be sure this video was one you watch.
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Understanding Personalities
2016-08-24 14:33:07
If you are curious about personalities in planting churches be sure to check out this webinar.
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Training for Church Planters
2015-04-10 13:21:58
Cultivate was created by GLI Church Planting to prepare planters to start a new church through expert content, guided real-world experience, and transforming relationships.
Cultivate includes sixty learning experiences. Each is designed to inform, inspire and equip potential leaders in a specific church planting activity. Want to know more? Request more information today.
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Discover the Role of Personality in Planting Video
2014-05-29 14:25:59
If you missed this months's live webinar from CPP's creator, Craig Whitney, a recording is available to watch online.
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New Sort Order for Profile List
2014-03-18 11:58:41
In an effort to continually improve CPP for ease of use for church planting networks we have recently changed how your profiles list displays.
When you log in to your account and click on the "Profiles" tab you will now find the names displayed by most recent activity. This means that the potential planter who has most recently updated their profile (upgraded their account, completed an assessment, etc.) will be at the top of the list.
You can also sort your profile list by any of the other fields by simply clicking on the name of the field at the top of the table (Date, name, ISA score, Golden, etc.) If you click the field name a second time it will resort in the opposite order.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact support@churchplanterprofiles.com This change was made at the suggestion of users like you.
If you have a suggestion for how to improve the effective use of CPP you can send them to support@churchplanterprofiles.com for future upgrade consideration.
Thank you for partnering with Church Planter Profiles in your efforts to plant churches to reach those whom God loves.
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Understanding CPP Reports
2014-03-13 20:42:52
Many of you are new to CPP, we want to ensure you have access the the training provided in this recording. This is a great source of information for understanding the CPP reports..
Live webinar from CPP's creator, Craig Whitney, a recording is available to watch online.
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Understanding CPP Reports Live Webinar
2014-03-06 13:23:18
One of the most common questions about Church Planter Profiles is "What do I do with all the information I get from the assessments?" On March 13th at 10:30am CST
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New Feature on CPP - Sort Profile List
2014-01-29 14:02:44
Church Planer Profiles is happy to announce a new feature. You can now sort your profile list.
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New Pricing for Church Planter Profiles
2013-10-21 14:52:38
Church Planter Profiles was created to help potential church planters discern their aptitude and readiness for starting a new church quickly and easily in an online environment.
When the website went live 5 years ago, we didn’t imagine how many thousands of potential church planters God would give us the opportunity to help discern their calling.
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Discover Both Aptitude and Readiness
2012-11-14 10:37:20
How do you know if someone can effectively start a new church? That is the question church planter assessment attempts to answer. It is critical to make sure the process is designed to discover both aptitude and readiness.
Aptitude refers the aspects of personality, gifting, and ability that are given by God. These qualities are present in a person’s life by the will and work of God. When God gave instructions for building the tabernacle (Exodus 35) everyone was asked to bring a gift, but Bezalel was filled with the Spirit of God, and the skill, ability and knowledge to make artistic designs of gold, silver and bronze. Bezalel had been given the aptitude to build the tabernacle by God.
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Live Webinar! How to Build an Effective Assessment
2012-11-01 11:12:16
On Thursday, November 8, at 10:30 am (cst), ELI's director, Craig Whitney, will present a live webinar on "How to Build an Effective Assessment Process,†using the 5 steps described above.Â
You'll learn how to:
- Increase the number of potential planters.
- Create a simple process from first contact to final assessment
- Use Church Planter Profiles to manage the process
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Building An Effective Assessment Process
2012-10-23 11:37:25
Assessing potential church planters is a critical step in any church planting effort. It can seem complex, even mysterious, but it doesn’t need to be. This simple 5 step process can guide you from the first contact through the final assessment.
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How to Read and Understand the ISA
2012-10-12 15:04:22
The ELI Initial Screening Assessment consists of 85 questions designed to evaluate:
- Church Planting Experience – Have they effectively started and led new ministry initiatives?
- Entrepreneurial Leadership – Do they prefer leading new and innovative activities?
- Ministry Experience – Have they effectively led ministry initiatives?
- Relational Evangelism – Are they actively involved in leading others to faith?
The scores are reported as percentages, based on a potential of 100%, but should not be compared to a typical academic scale. Instead, we provide a benchmark, a median, and a green/yellow/red indicator.
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Live Webinar This Thursday!
2012-10-08 15:49:28
Understanding CPP Reports
Thursday, October 11 at 10:30 a.m. (cst)
One of the most common questions about Church Planter Profiles is "What do I do with all the information I get from the assessments?" On Thursday, October 11, Craig Whitney, the director of ELI Church Planting and the creator of Church Planter Profiles will present a live webinar on "Understanding Church Planter Profiles Reports.” You will learn how to:
- Use the online assessment as an empowering process.
- Discern the difference between aptitude and readiness.
- Drive deep discovery conversation with the Initial Screening Assessment.
- Recognize patterns in personality, behavior, gifts and talent.
- Confirm self reporting with the 360 Survey
Join us live Thursday, October 11 at 10:30 am (cst) to learn how your network can make the most of Church Planter Profiles assessment reports to discover and develop potential church planters.
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Where Can I Find More Church Planters?
2012-09-26 17:57:11
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I got a call from a leader in a regional church planting effort recently. His question: "where can we find more planters?â€Â It's a common question. Church planting has increased in popularity during the 20 years I've been involved, but there is still a shortage of willing and ready leaders. Where can you find more planters?
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Download Planter Profile as a Single File
2012-09-13 15:15:25
Did you know there is a quick and easy way to download a planter's profile?
You can download a zip file of all the assessments.Â
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Join Us For a Live Webinar
2012-08-29 13:59:43
Making the Most of Church Planter Profiles
Thursday, September 13, 10:30 am (cst)
Our goal is provide you the best tools possible to discover church planter potential. In September, we will restart our monthly live webinar series with a workshop for agency users showing you how to make the most of the Church Planter Profile website.
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Customized Emails for Your Planters
2012-08-16 15:42:39
Customize the emails your planters receive from CPP!
The Church Planter Profiles website sends a number of email messages to potential church planters as they complete the online assessment process.
Did you know you have the ability to customize these messages for your agency, enabling you to communicate more clearly and efficiently with potential planters?
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Making the Most of the Portrait Predictor
2012-08-10 16:40:46
Church Planter Profiles provides an abundance of information about potential church planters. Knowing how to quickly read and understand each of the reports will help you get the most out of Church Planter Profiles and effectively assess potential church planters. These tips will help you get the most out of the Portrait Predictor.
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View the ISA in Depth
2012-08-03 18:51:56
The ISA is the most used instrument on Church Planter profiles and so we have provided some simple tools for getting the most out of the online report. Below the graphs is a table displaying all of the ISA questions and responses.Â
The table may be sorted by simply clicking on each of the column headings.Â
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Optimizing The Golden Personality Profile
2012-07-24 22:03:59
Church Planter Profiles provides an abundance of information about potential church planters. Knowing how to quickly read and understand each of the reports will help you get the most out of Church Planter Profiles and effectively assess potential church planters. These tips will help you get the most out of the Golden Personality Profiles.
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Find Profiles Faster With New Profiles Screen
2012-07-19 13:35:26
In the last 4 years, over 10,000 people have created accounts on Church Planter Profiles. While we are excited about helping so many people discover their church planting potential, the growing list of names has made it difficult for agencies to find planter profiles.Â
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Making the Most of the ISA
2012-05-16 12:45:25
We know that what many of you appreciate most about the ELI Initial Screening Assessment is the simple and easy to understand Green/Yellow/Red feedback. It enables you identify church planting potential quickly and easily.
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Assess Early and Often
2011-11-15 14:55:45
Planting more churches, more effectively requires finding more leaders more often. Let me suggest one way of doing this – assess potential leaders early and often.
Many of the assessment mistakes I have observed begin by doing the opposite – assessing only a few leaders very late in the process. This leads to two consequences. First, there simply aren’t enough potential leaders in the process to discover the ones with high potential, so the less than ideal leader is selected because he or she is “the best option we have.â€Â Hint – if you feel like you’re settling, you probably haven’t found a high potential leader. Second, there is too much already invested to say no, so assessment red flags get ignored because, “we can’t afford to start over.†You can avoid both of these mistakes by assessing early and often.
Assess Early - ELI’s Initial Screening Assessment was built for just this purpose and should be the very first thing you do before you meet or even talk to a potential church planter. It’s tempting to say, “I’d like to meet them first†– but meeting them is where the problem begins because when you meet them, you like them and liking them has no correlation to their church planting potential. Gathering data early will keep your conversation focused on real potential not just personal preference.
Assess Often - One of ELI’s partners leans on the Brothers Grimm to convey this idea in a memorable way. He says, “you have to kiss a lot of frogs if you want to find a prince.â€Â Church Planter Profiles makes the process easy. The ISA is free. A full assessment is only $89. It takes only a few minutes to review the data you receive. Building a large pool of potential planters will increase the likelihood of finding a few with high potential.
How well are you doing at assessing early and often? Here is a simple metric:
Determine the number of churches you want to plant (A) and the number of leaders who have completed the ISA (B). Then ask yourself, are you confident that A out of B leaders you meet are potential church planters? If not, then begin making it a priority to assess early and often.
If you’d like to learn more about using Church Planter Profiles in your assessment process, attend our December 8th webinar, “Building an Effective Assessment Process.â€
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Did you know ELI can help you train church planter
2011-09-23 03:19:35
Cultivate is an 8 month online training program that equips church planters to start, grow and multiply a new church out of the culture – a church that reaches people far from God and leads them to a life of faith and spiritual transformation.
Cultivate has been designed to provide practical content that can be combined with onsite or online coaching to prepare church planters to effectively start a new church.
Learn more about how cultivate can equip your church planters at www.elichurchplanting.com/
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Price Change
2011-08-02 13:10:52
On August 15th, the price of a full profile will increase to $89. We encourage you to take advantage of the current price to upgrade planter accounts until that date. All upgraded accounts will have access to the new features so this is a great opportunity to get the new features at the current price.
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Updates Changes and More!
2011-07-19 11:35:34
Since the launch of Church Planter Profiles in 2008, we have been honored to partner with over 100 reproducing churches, networks and denomination to discover church planting potential.
Along the way we have made minor changes to the website. We are excited to announce the most significant update we have made since our launch.
- A more reliable Initial Screening Assessment.
The new ISA will include 85 questions, provide more reliable results and potential planters will be able to take it more than once to track their development. - A new feedback system for the 360 Profile.
Profile respondents will have a new scale for providing feedback and planters will be able to see an average of the responses. - Personalized Development Guides.
As part of the full profile, planters will receive a personalized development guide to help them take next steps in preparation for church planting. - Improved PDF reports.
The PDF reports you download will look more like the reports you see on the screen. - All planter access to the file system.
New navigation will allow planters who take the ISA to see and download documents your network has posted in the file system.
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Validation Research Webinar
2011-05-13 13:52:42
Craig Whitney, the Director of ELI, presented the results of our recent research project in a live
webinar last Thursday. If you missed it, a condensed recording is available to view online.
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Validation Research Reports
2011-05-12 10:21:00
The validation research project begun in November is now complete. We are publishing 3 documents to share the results with you.
The executive summary is a one page document outlining the results.
The validation brief is a 5 page document that will be most helpful to organizations.
The 28 page comprehensive report is available for those who would like to review all of the data.
The power point presentation from our validation webinar is available for those who would like to review.
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Online Training for Church Planters
2011-04-07 11:21:22
Cultivate is an 8 month online training program that equips church
planters to start, grow and multiply a new church out of the culture –
a church that reaches people far from God and leads them to a life of
faith and spiritual transformation.
Cultivate has been designed to provide practical content that can be
combined with onsite or online coaching to prepare church planters to
effectively start a new church. Cultivate will provide you with:
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John Burke Events in Europe
2011-03-24 01:38:57
John Burke will be traveling in Europe during March and April. If your in or around any of these cities, check out these events coming up on the following dates:
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Validation Study: Phase III
2011-03-07 11:29:06
The ELI Initial Screening Assessment was created by the Emerging Leadership Initiative in 2005. In the last 5 years, over 5,000 potential church planters have completed the assessment. We’ve decided it’s time to upgrade our tools to make them even better. We are currently compiling all the data from testing surveys and have begun phase three of our validity study. We hope to have the study completed by April 2011.
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Webinar: How to Build an Effective Assessment Proc
2011-03-03 11:33:32
Church planter assessment is a critical step in any church planting effort. It can seem complex, even mysterious at times, but it doesn’t need to be!
This webinar will help you build a simple and effective process for identifying and assessing potential church planters using the tools and resources provided by Church Planter Profiles.
Click here to register
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Did you know ELI can help you train church planter
2011-01-27 11:39:52
Cultivate is an 8 month online training program that equips church planters to start, grow and multiply a new church out of the culture – a church that reaches people far from God and leads them to a life of faith and spiritual transformation.
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Phase One of the Validation Study Complete
2011-01-27 11:39:36
In December, we began a validation study to help us update our Initial Screening Assessment and our data on church planter effectiveness. We have completed the first phase of reliability testing with excellent results.
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