Replanting Life Giving Churches

A Fresh Start is what happens when a dying church finds new life through replanting.

Some churches need renewed strategy. Others are out of runway entirely. Fresh Start Network exists for the second kind, bringing the partnership, the leadership, and a new life cycle.

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Serving districts and churches of The Christian and Missionary Alliance.
The Crosstown Alliance Church launch team with hands raised as they are sent out to replant a church east of Rochester, New York
Launch team sent, to replant a church east of Rochester, NY
Watch First

Two minutes on why this network exists.

Mike Rosado on who Fresh Start is for, where the line sits, and what a replant actually looks like on the ground.

Mike Rosado · Director, Fresh Start Network

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The Distinction

Two Answers To The Same Question

Life of the Church: a curve rising through Birth, Growing, and Thriving to Coasting at the peak, then falling through Struggling and Surviving to Close.

Revitalization

What a church does for itself

  • Same identity, same name. The church stays who it's always been
  • The existing pastor, or a called successor, leads the change
  • The existing board and governance stay intact
  • Longer runway, with room to make incremental adjustments
  • Enough internal capacity to do the work, with coaching
Owned by PEAK & district coaching programs

Replanting

What happens when it can't

  • New identity, often a new name. Something new rises in its place
  • A new pastor or team is installed from outside
  • Governance dissolves and is restructured under a partner
  • Short runway. Drastic change now, or it's over
  • No internal capacity left, so it requires a Partner Church
Owned by Fresh Start Network

Revitalization is what a church does for itself. Replanting is what happens when it can't.

The Takeaway

We don't compete for the stuck church. We show up for the dying one.

Start Here

One Evaluation. Two Ways In.

When you open the Evaluation, you choose your path. Answer honestly and we'll tell you the truth, even when the truth is that you don't need us.

 If you're a pastor Am I built to replant? A personal profile for leaders sensing a call to walk into a dying church and start something new.   If you're a church Where are we on the life cycle? The Life of the Church Evaluation scores your church into one of five zones. If you land in the revitalization zone, we'll say so and point you to PEAK. 
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Where Do You Fit

Two different sides. Same movement.

“We Need a Fresh Start”

Your runway is shorter than anyone says out loud. Find out where your church actually sits on the life cycle, and what the three thresholds are that every replant has to cross first.

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“We Want to Help Replant Churches”

For the pastor called to walk into something hard and stay, and the healthy church that was never meant to keep its health to itself. Certification opens this month.

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Leading a district, with churches on your list and no playbook? Start here instead.
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Replant Stories · Arcade, New York

The year before, Calvary Alliance Church had three kids in the whole church. After their new beginning, sixty came to Vacation Bible School.

Fresh Start Network

A relational network focused on replanting life giving churches locally, regionally, and globally.