Strategy

What is the High Impact Church Planting (HICP) Development Process?

The HICP development process is always in partnership with a Residency and/or Partner Church and a Partner District. It includes the following 6 steps: 1) Recruitment, 2) Assessment, 3) Regional Networking, 4) Leadership Residency, 5) HICP Action Plan and 6) Coaching.  The unique feature of the HICP is that the entire process is developed, guided by and continues to be perfected by a growing team of HICP practitioners.

What is the relationship between the High Impact Church Planting Project and the USA/Canada Region of the Church of the Nazarene?

High Impact Church Planting Project (HICP) is an initiative within the Church of the Nazarene, serving under the umbrella of the USA/Canada Nazarene Church Planting Task Force.  Dr. Larry McKain helps facilitate the movement and sits on the Task Force as the HICP representative.  We are SO grateful for the encouragement of Dr. Bill Wiesman, Rev. Mark Bane and Dr. Bob Broadbooks as we attempt to be one of the “research and development” arms of the church for the launch of new large churches and multiplying churches across the USA/Canada Region. 

What is the relationship between HICP and DCPI? 

We are excited to be a part of the DCPI church planting movement now at work in the USA/Canada Region.  DCPI has trained and reached tens of thousands of leaders!  Unlike DCPI, the HICP has a very narrow focus to look for and develop a select group of 100 church leaders with high leadership capacity over the next 10 years.  In everything we do, we encourage multiplying leaders.  EVERY kind of church is needed for different kinds of communities.  It takes all kinds of churches using all kinds of models and methods to reach all kinds of people.

How does the High Impact Church Planting Project aim to do “research and development” for the church?

We focus on capturing, cataloguing and communicating best practices for launching healthy large churches which are designed to begin large and grow large.  There are numbers of churches throughout the USA/Canada Region who fit in this category.  We aim to learn from both those outside and inside our denominational family.  Every time we plant a new HICP church, we aim to build on the learning of the past and share it with everyone with whom we work.

Who is the HICP designed to serve?

Everyone in the USA/Canada Region of the Church of the Nazarene who desires to learn along with us.

Does the HICP focus on multi-site multiplication as well as large church launches?

Yes, we make no distinction in our work between a multi-site that a local church is multiplying and a large church launch that a local church does.  Our focus is more on the health and "culture" of the plant/multi-site than it is on whether the church is organizationally still part of the mother church or has been sent out by her.

Why will the HICP succeed?

One of the reasons we will succeed is because of the extremely high “connection” that already exists between Partner Churches, Partner Districts, Leadership Residency Churches, the HICP and the USA/Canada Region.  We have a high commitment to allow Local Churches to lead in the church planting process, especially Leadership Residency churches. The role of Partner Districts and the HICP is to provide the support processes these churches need to be more effective in their task to multiply.  We believe the Church of the Nazarene is becoming one of the most forward-thinking movements there is…and the greatest denomination to serve within, in the United States and Canada.