CHURCH PLANTING
Church planting is one of the most effective means of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Whether you are still exploring that call or actively pursuing it, Fuller’s Church Planting area of interest will form you to be a spiritually vibrant and vocationally agile leader. Our courses will give you the theological foundations and missiological principles that will inform your plans and ground your work. You will gain practical instruction on planting a church in a diverse, post-Christendom world as you also benefit from opportunities for missional experimentation and church planting apprenticeships. With every course co-taught by one of our faculty scholars along with a church planting veteran, you’ll learn from the experts.
STUDENTS TAKE COURSES LIKE THESE
FLEXIBLE LOCATIONS AND STUDY OPTIONS
Students can pursue this area of interest at all Fuller campuses or online, enabling them to remain in their ministry and home contexts if they wish. Courses can be taken in any order.
FROM OUR FACULTY AND STUDENTS
“One of the things I really appreciated about my coursework was that we talked a lot about evangelism for a postmodern age. I used a lot of what I learned in class to teach my church plant about starting something new in our community, and people really latched on. The class gave me practical resources to help our church plant connect with current culture, and to reach our goal of leading people to Jesus through personal connections rather than through transfer growth.”
SARA STABE, MDIV ’18
"Start in LA" Podcast
Listen to Fuller grad Janna Ziegler talk about starting Church of the Resurrection on 'Start in LA', a church planting podcast hosted by Fuller and Cyclical LA.
About the Start In L.A. podcast:
The Start in LA Podcast is a local conversation about starting churches. Our hosts, Nick Warnes, Bethany McKinney Fox, and Michaela O'Donnell Long interview guests on topics related to the unique work of starting churches in Los Angeles.
Kevin Haah teaches urban church planting in Fuller's Church Planting Program. He is the founding pastor of New City Church, a multiethnic and multi-socioeconomic church in downtown LA. Watch Kevin tell the story of his calling to church planting and the founding of New City Church.
FACULTY
Ryan Bolger
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHURCH IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
Mark Lau Branson
HOMER L. GODDARD PROFESSOR OF THE MINISTRY OF THE LAITY
Johnny Ramirez-Johnson
PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Jude Tiersma Watson
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF URBAN MISSION
PROGRAMS
Additional Program Offerings
Already have a degree or want a program that’s 100% online? Check out our Church Planting Certificate
