Plant with deep roots.
Start a church
Build a unique church, for unique people, with a unique mission.
Starting a church, launching a new campus, or multiplying your church is a high calling—one that you don’t have to do alone.
At Converge Northeast, we’re committed to starting missionally minded churches until every people group and community has heard the gospel.
Use proven church planting strategies, systems, and training all designed to improve your success so that more people will have the opportunity to meet, know, and follow Jesus.
How we serve
Start a church
Get access to the church planting system with one of the highest success rates in the world. Build relationships with mentors and other local pastors. Start strong, stay strong.
Multiply your church
Get help identifying, assessing, and training new leaders who can launch and sustain a new congregation. Extend your church’s reach and spread the gospel.
Church Planting Assessment Process
Helping you discern your calling, ministry fit and leadership capacity as a church planter.
Community and Coaching Opportunities
The latest proven resources, training and systems to help increase the long-term success of your church plant.
Why churches plant with Converge Northeast
Your mission—effective and thriving
No two churches are the same. It’s why we offer custom solutions that take your calling, people, and context into account.
- Personalized discovery
- Practical next steps
Your connections—Spirit-inspired and soul-enriching
Take advantage of opportunities to be a part of relationships that build better leaders, pastors, and churches.
- Regional ADVANCE teams
- Networking opportunities
- Regional and national events
Your church—focused and flourishing
Help your leaders and teams stay spiritually healthy, relationally connected, and Gospel-centered.
- Resources and support
- Formation and fellowship
- Strategies to reach here, near, and far
Your support team—one call away
Our whole high-capacity team is here for YOU. We’re your church’s support hotline: Questions, concerns, emergencies, or hiccups—you have direct access.
- Every Converge Northeast team member is on your team
Everything you need
Coaching and leadership development
Practical training and resources
Tested strategies for your context
Financial grants and resources
Pastor retirement plan
What Great Commission leaders are saying
Converge provides an incredible network of relationships and resources. Since joining Converge, we are better connected with other local churches and leaders, and better equipped to pursue what God has called us to.
Ministry is difficult, especially in the Northeast, and having a support system to rely on like Converge is essential! Both myself and our church have benefitted immensely from being a part of Converge Northeast.
Where we're active
Looking for a church in your area? Our church finder will let you browse all our partner churches by state, or find it directly on the map.
How it works
We provide a clear pathway for you to plant a new church. Each step has been strategically designed to improve your success so more people can meet, know, and follow Jesus.
The process
Get Equipped
Ready to plant a church? Get in touch with our team, and we’ll start the process.
After some initial conversations, you’ll attend Converge's highly-trusted Church Planting Assessment Center. During the assessment, trained assessors will help you discern your calling, fit in ministry and capacity to be the lead pastor on a planting team.Launch Well
Next, we’ll outline partnership details, discuss salary, and explain church planting grants.
You’ll learn how to raise funds, recruit your launch team and fill out the legal forms. We can even help with creative aspects like naming, branding, logo development and website. When it’s time to launch, we stand with you to support you and your team and make sure you're ready to launch successfully.Stay Supported
Once you’ve launched, you’ll continue to receive coaching, training, church planting resources and the opportunity to connect with other leaders in Converge.
When your church plant is ready to plant a new church, we'll walk alongside you throughout that whole process, too.
Converge Residencies
Developing leaders for greater impact Training those who have been called to ministry is a key part of pastoral development. There’s no better place for that training to happen than from inside the local church. Because of a shifting landscape in educational opportunities, the local church’s place in this preparation has risen to match the importance […]
Church planting resources and partnerships
Resourcing you and your mission Auxilio Partners Auxilio’s mission is to free you to concentrate on your calling to plant an impactful and sustainable church. To that end we provide comprehensive business services support including: Auxilio has partnered with Converge to offer free setup (excluding legal costs) for your church plant. Learn more > Aware3The key […]
Missionary Discovery & Assessment
Converge’s Missionary Discovery & Assessment is designed to help you explore and refine God’s calling on your life. Over a three-day period, you will be evaluated by professional assessors in 15 different areas. Qualified missionary veterans and professional behavioral analysts administer one-on-one interviews and lead sessions to help expose you to missionary life. You will […]
Church Planting Assessment Center
Converge has one of the longest-running, most influential and highly trusted church planting assessment systems in the country. We offer decades of experience and a contextually current process. Many other denominations and para-church organizations have modeled their process after ours. The purpose of assessment is to reduce risk and increase church planting success. We use […]
Converge Compass
Helping you bear more fruit in your ministry The health of a church is often directly related to the health of its pastor. Pastor, how often do you ask yourself, “How am I doing?” Compass has been created to help you answer this essential question. We want your church to stay healthy so you can continue to […]
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Your support team—one call away
If you want help starting a church, strengthening your church, or reaching unreached people groups with the gospel, let’s talk.