Our Passion
Helping Church Planters and High Level Leaders EXCEL in their God-given Work.
Our Passion
Helping Church Planters and High Level Leaders EXCEL in their God-given Work.
We Value The Leader
We Value Outreach
We Value Connecting
We Value Resourcefulness
We Plant
We Help Others Plant
How We Do It
Ten Enviroments of Support
How We Do It
Ten Enviroments of Support
The Psalmist wrote, “Unless the Lord builds the house, its’ builders labor in vain.”—Psalm 127:1
We can extrapolate that to “Unless God builds the church, we’re wasting everyone’s time.” Jesus said, “Apart from me you can do nothing.”—John 15:5
The Spiritual Vitality environment ensures that our movement and the church planters are staying close to God and getting in on what He is doing:
We look to attract high level church planters and prospects to our movement through recruitment, referrals from current planters and having a reputation for supporting leaders. More than just talking about what we do, we invite high level leaders to check us out and see our philosophy in action. Planters are encouraged to invite their contacts to either of the two ‘front doors’ we use: vision events and the Discovery Center.
We encourage Godly vision that is:
Our advisory team of strategists collaborate with planters on their plans and proposals, fostering faith yet eliminating needless risk.
Our coaching philosophy:
“For waging war you need guidance and for victory many advisers.” – Proverbs 24:6
Excel does not push a certain model, we look for high level leaders and encourage creativity. We look for Biblically viable and practically effective ways to start new congregations. We share creative ministry strategies, ideas and resources with others.
We’re always looking for strategic partnerships to support more leaders. We want to be Kingdom-minded in offering up what’s working to those it would help:
Connecting, Caring and Training
Assessing
Coaching
Financing can be a source of contention in church planting, but we strive to be a help and not a hindrance in this area. Our strategy is to be upfront about our funding principles, as well as intentional about developing a culture of generosity. We will be and expect network planters to be Kingdom-minded in our practices. Our funding principles are . . .
Discovery Center is the process that we use to help leaders discovery their next step in ministry. Candidates come to explore their “fit” for:
Assessing through the Discovery Center involves:
Our training strategies:
Our primary caring structure are connection events where we bring planters together for prayer, training and connecting. Connection events are regional gatherings for church planters: we usually do lunch or dinner, a short meeting time and going to a game (baseball, football, basketball, hockey etc.). These events are held around the United States, Mexico and Cuba.
Connection Events provide time and place for:
Our Team
Serving Church Planters
Our Team
Serving Church Planters
JD Pearring's vast experience includes planting churches, leading growing congregations and assessing potential new church planters. He also currently serves as the Director of the Excel Leadership Network and pastor of Discovery Church in Elk Grove, CA, a church he planted in 1998. JD is a graduate of UCLA and Denver Seminary.
JD and his wife, Lori, have four children and seven grandchildren.