R.W. interviews Patrick O'Connell with guest, Tom Planck. They discuss church multiplication and networking for church planting and financial health.


As you listen, here are a few key take aways....
1. The church is a movement and that the church is at its best when it's engaged in the reproduction or reproducing or multiplying in that movement.

2. At the end of the day we have to remind ourselves we're stewards and not owners. And we're in the Kingdom advancement business, not in the castle building business.

3. Networks are to movement as small groups are to churches.


Patrick O’Connell is the Global Director of NewThing. After graduating college and a stint in the Army, he went to work in the corporate world, eventually becoming a Vice President in a prestigious investment firm. It was during this time that he connected with COMMUNITY and eventually found his way back to God. In 2007, he left his business and moved with a team of people to Kansas City to help start Restore Community Church. Soon after, he began coaching and mentoring church planters. He's become a student of church planting, enrolling in the Master of Missional Church Movements Program at Wheaton College. He wants to leverage his knowledge, experiences and passion for Jesus to help people start more churches that help even more people find their way back to God. He's married to Nancy and they have three great kids: Bailie , Declan and Cormac.

Click here for more about Patrick's work with New Thing.

Tom Planck serves as the Director of Multiplication at Indiana Ministries. He is also the Chief Catalyst of Healthy Growing Churches and uses his leadership gifts to help church leaders on the local, regional and national level create a multiplication culture within their organization. With twenty plus years of ministry experience, he has led cohorts and coached pastors to spark intentional efforts for both disciple-making and church multiplication. Tom is married to his beautiful wife, Andrea, and has two grown children (Tytus & Hannah) and a daughter in law (Kelsey).