New Churches

The Calvary Chapel and Vineyard movements have made a unique contribution to church planting in North America. Information below will help you to understand them better.

Calvary Chapel Main Page (main web site)

• Religious Movements: Calvary Chapel
• Top 10 States with Calvary Chapel
• One-Way.Org: Jesus Movement
• Calvary Chapel: CCCPM
• Two Hour Video on Calvary Chapel

Vineyard (main web site)

• Religious Movements: Vineyard
• Vineyard History

Two Excellent Books

• Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium by Donald E. Miller
• The Jesus People Movement: An Annotated Bibliography and General Resource (Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, No. 49) by David Di Sabatino

Student Papers

• Calvary chapel (pdf)
• History of Calvary Chapel (pdf)
• The Vineyard Movement (pdf)

Featured Book

Planting Fast Growing Churches by Dr. Stephen Gray

Pastor, Church Planter, Director of National Missions for the General Association of General Baptists and upcoming speaker for the National New Church Conference , Dr Stephen Gray brings this new research based book on the factors on what does and what doesn't help church plants succeed.

They explore the real differences between successful church plants and a struggling ones. They surveyed 112 church plants and found some surprising data. Some of the data confirmed long-held theories. Other findings were quite surprising. This book is a must-read for any church planter.

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• Converge Community
• Exponential 2008
• Shapevine
• Compassion by Design
• Free Resources