Church Planting Application Process

Whether you’re interested in planting with us in the Carolinas or you’re an existing church plant that desires to partner with us, please complete the following steps.

Once you submit an online application, you begin to move through our application process in which we get to know you, and you us. The process has multiple steps moving through three stages: Application, Assessment, Candidacy.

1. Application Phase

The applicant phase begins when you submit some basic background information and an initial explanation of your interest / hopes in planting on our online application.

2. Assessment Phase

If you are approved at the end of the application phase, you will then be asked to fill out a questionnaire and be scheduled to meet live with our assessment team. Here, we will sit down for an interview/coaching time with you and your spouse (required). We will discuss the particulars of your unique gifting, capacity, competence and context in terms of perceived opportunities and challenges. We will also help you consider your next steps as you pursue the ordination process (if you’re not already ordained). Within a week or two following this, we will provide you with our recommendations.

3. Candidacy Phase

If approved after assessment, the KARDIA team we will begin partnering with you to plan and resource the effort to plant (which may include ordination or transfer of credentials).