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Practical Models to Effectively Church Plant with Brian Beauford [Podcast]
The Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast brings you interviews from leaders across the theological spectrum of the global Church. Our goal is to bring you thought-provoking interviews that encourage you, challenge you, and help you build, run, and keep great teams.
In today's episode of the Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast, Holly Tate, vice president of marketing at Vanderbloemen Search Group, talks with Brian Beauford, executive pastor at Grace Church in Avon, Massachusetts. Holly and Brian discuss the different models of church planting and how to utilize them to bring more people to Christ.
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Brian Beauford is an executive pastor at Grace Church just south of Boston. He helped plant the church in 2005 and has helped it plant four autonomous churches and grow into multiple locations with 2000 in weekly attendance. Brian is also a serial entrepreneur who has a passion to help busy pastors grow themselves, their teams and their church. Brian writes about leadership, strategy, systems and growth at www.521Pastors.com.
Holly talks with Brian about:
- The different models of church planting and how you can utilize them to bring more people to Christ
- Why customizing multiple models instead of sticking with one model for a church could be beneficial
- The potential for growth when being open to different church models
Guest Links:
- [Graphic] Church Planting Models
- [Church] Grace Church
- [Blog] 521 Pastors
- [Book] The Myth of Balance: Thriving in the Tension of Ministry, Work, and Life by Frank Bealer
- [Book] Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game by Mark Miller
- [App] Stitcher
Quotes from Brian:
“We had a passion to start more churches. It wasn’t about how large we were going get; it wasn’t about how many butts in seats. It was about how many people we were going give the opportunity to know and follow Jesus and we felt like planting more churches was the answer to that question.” 
“Why would we only pick one model and exclude the other 80% of potential church planters when our goal is not to make it an easy system to manage, our goal is to make as many churches as possible?”
“The myth is that there is no balance. So if you’re always trying to spend equal parts of your time on everything then that’s not the best way to do it because some things are more important than others.”
“Most of the time, you don’t realize the game has changed until it’s too late.”
