Accurate assessment of church planting potential is essential. Unless you really like pain and frustration, you do not want to attempt to plant a church without thoroughly working out if you have the character, have been equipped for the task and convinced of the urgency of the Gospel undergirding your work.  

Multiply’s role is to:

• ensure you’re given the best help in knowing whether or not you are suited to planting a church; and
• providing church planting resources, coaching, training and a genuine network of relationships to Multiply planters throughout New Zealand.

The assessment and launch process involves 4 phases:

Phase 1: Application Form and Initial Questionnaires (completed before assessment interview)

• Complete Application Form, includes contact information, church planting status and agreement to Multiply Doctrinal Statement
• Email your Resume, a photo of your family and the results of two online reports (the first is a general workers survey that talks about characteristics for any Gospel worker, and the second is specifically for church planters). 

Phase 2: Assessment Questionnaires

• Multiply contacts at least three referees: minister/pastor, friend/peer, and someone you have been discipling. 
• Complete Assessment Questionnaires, including Testimony & Conviction to Plant, Marriage & Family, Theology & Pastoral and Planting Strategy & Timeline, Finances and General Health. If married, your wife will complete an Assessment Questionnaire.
• You will also complete a Personality Profile (Entrepreneurial Assessment Test) and submit an mp3 of a sermon.

Phase 3: Assessment Interview

Once the assessment documents have been completed, Multiply will arrange for an assessment interview to take place with the planter (and their spouse if they are married). The assessment interview takes about 4 hours to complete and will be undertaken by experienced church planters. The panel for this interview has on it a married couple, an experienced church planter, and representatives from the planter’s church or denomination.

Phase 4: Becoming a Multiply linked planter

The final assessment phase is becoming a Multiply linked planter. Note that this is not intended to replace any denominational support a planter has, but to work alongside it. Once you have been accepted formally as a Multiply planter and completed any conditions required we will assign you a Multiply Coach and give you access to the Multiply in-network resources (i.e. ‘Church in a Box’). In this phase, you gather your core group, develop your strategy, assemble your budget and project your needs.

We would encourage you to be prayerful and honest with yourself as you complete this application. Know that we are praying for you, asking that God may grant wisdom and discernment to you and us through this process.

Contact us

If you’d like to get in touch, or have any questions, please email our General Manager at steve.mullins@multiply.co.nz