Chapter Planting Resources

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Welcome all who are curious about starting new chapters! This page provides stories and materials to help you get excited about the possibility of beginning new InterVarsity chapters. Note: please be sure to bookmark this page in your browser. At this time, there are few other references for finding it again.

If you’re a student or faculty member on a campus without an InterVarsity chapter, start by reading Consider Starting an InterVarsity Chapter along with some of the stories below. You can learn more about InterVarsity by checking out our About Us page, visiting our new site for students, StudentSoul.org and by reading stories in our Student Leadership journal archives.

NEW!  Primary and supplemental planting resources
for staff planters and coaches

• Chapter Planting Manual, version 2.2 by Shawn Young, Brian Sanders and Chris Nichols. PDF format. This is the latest version (May 2008) of the training manual for staff who are planting chapters. It offers a model for planting along with timelines and diagrams.

• Coaching for Kingdom and Campus Results by Jim Lundgren. This is the coaching manual. Links to the printable forms in the last section (Worksheets) can be found here.

• Six chapter planting essentials in the commuter and urban context by Marcia J. Wang. Word format.

• Coaching planters in a commuter setting by Marcia J. Wang. Word format.

• Chapter planting in an International Student Ministries setting by Lisa Espineli Chinn and other ISM staff. Word format.

• Testimony of an ISM chapter planter by Yii-Shyun Lin. Word format.

• Chapter Planting in the Graduate Student and Faculty Ministry Context by Lynn Gill. Word format.

• Chapter planting in a Greek ministry context by Mindy Meier. Word Format.

 
Stories

All Stories (This link draws together all chapter planting stories and lists them in a table. You may prefer to use the lists below:)

Stories from two-year campuses
(Mostly commuter campuses.)

Stories from four-year, larger campuses (These are a mix of residential and commuter campuses.)

Stories from four-year, smaller campuses (Mostly residential with some commuter campuses.)

Stories about specific groups (Greeks, NCF, ethnic minority, academic field, etc.)

Tell your story! We are actively collecting stories about planting. Please tell us your story (or send us an update)! Upload your document to the MX, or, in order to help us keep some uniformity for gathering trends, use our handy-dandy template. Download it (a Word doc with an outline), fill it out, rename your file and upload it. Let us know when you’ve uploaded something to the MX so we can find it and add it to our listings on these pages.

More Planting Stuff
Here are other resources:

• Student Chapter Planting Handbook by the Chapter Planting Task Force. This is a brief student version of the Chapter Planting Manual. Draft in progress. This is the document handed out at Urbana 06.

• Case Study: Where to Plant a Chapter? by Betsy Staudt.

• Taking a community college from 30 to 80 by Jeremy Stephens. (Good advice for both planting and building.)

• Chapter Planters Forum (Note: For InterVarsity staff only. if you’re not already also logged into the InterVarsity staff section, you will need to log in again and will be taken to the forums page. Choose the Chapter Planters forum.)

Questions or comments? Have you posted something about planting and want to let us know? Email the campus web team via the StudentSoul.org contact page.

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