How Does Accelerate Measure Success?

I was asked the other day, "How do you measure success with Accelerate?"

To determine this we must look at our mission, who we serve, what they need and our vision

The Accelerate Mission is to:

    Attract, inspire and equip Kingdom-minded leaders and

    Connect them so they can

    Collaborate with their time, talent and treasure so we

    Accelerate the creation of healthy, reproducing faith communities resulting in

       transformed lives and transformed communities

We Serve: church planting pastors

Our Vision:
Healthy church planting pastors developing healthy reproducing churches resulting in

transformed lives and transformed communities

What Church  Planters Need:
Common Best Practices for Equipping Church Planters
1.  Assessment
2.  Church planting training
3.  Internship, residency, or church planting experience
4.  Sponsoring churches involved in helping the plant
5.  Administrative and strategic support
6.  Coaching/mentoring relationship
7.  Peer-to-peer relationships
8.  Ongoing training opportunities
9.  Exposure to available resources

Measuring success:
Our success will be through raising up the leaders and structures that make possible the equipping, encouragement and accountability new pastors and churches need. These are illustrated in the Common Best Practices for Equipping Church Planters. We provide some of these through coaching networks and some through creating collaborative efforts with other organizations.

We can measure:
1. Number of coaches raised up to lead coaching networks
2. Number of coaching networks
3. Planting pastors participating
4. Number of church planting churches and sponsoring churches
5. National network involvement in city
6. Survivability rate at 4 years of participants
7. Financial sustainability at 4 years of participating churches
8. Number of new churches that reproduce in 4 years

Anecdotal responses from pastors and leaders will illustrate life, church and community impact