Training & Resources

Church
Planting.

Thirteen years, three cities, one conviction. Resources for the pastors and leaders called to plant churches in the places everyone else has written off.

The Heart of It

My wife Georgie and I planted FOUNT Church in Brooklyn in 2013 with five people and a Dinner Party. Since then we’ve watched God build what we could not have imagined. Five locations across the boroughs of New York before COVID, a rebuild after, and church plants in Paris and Berlin that are now self sustaining and thriving in their own way.

Three of the most challenging cities in the Western world. Three places everyone said the church couldn’t take root. And in each one, God has done what only God can do.

The lessons from those thirteen years (the theology, the practices, the failures, the things we would do again, the things we would never) are what I want to share here. If you’re called to plant a church, or to help plant one, or to pastor one through its hardest seasons, my prayer is that what we’ve learned would serve you.

What’s Coming

I’m in the process of pulling together a full training library for church planters. Teaching series, frameworks, guides, and stories from the FOUNT journey across New York, Paris, and Berlin.

That library is coming here soon. In the meantime, if you’re a church planter or pastor and want to be in touch directly, please reach out through the contact page.

Foundational to Our Model

It began at a
table.

Every FOUNT plant has started the same way. Not with a launch event, but with a Dinner Party. The Dinner Party is the centerpiece of how we plant and how we pastor.

If you’re exploring church planting and want to understand the model we’ve built three churches on, start there.