Simplicity Church Network

Resources for Church Planters & Movement Leaders

Spirit-led tools for simple, sustainable, multiplying church


You don’t need a complex system to make disciples or plant churches — but you do need clarity, conviction, and support.

The resources on this page are designed to equip everyday people to start and sustain Spirit-led expressions of Church in homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and nations. Everything here reflects the heart of Simplicity Church Network: relational, reproducible, Jesus-centered, and Spirit-formed.

These tools are free to use, adapt, and share as the Spirit leads.

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The Foundry: A 52-Week Discipleship Journey for Men
A Spirit-led, Scripture-rich guide designed to shape Christlike character, deepen personal faith, and multiply disciple-makers.

  • Weekly sessions include Bible study, reflection, action steps, and group-ready formats

  • Grounded in obedience, repentance, calling, and reproducibility

  • Ideal for 1-on-1 mentoring, small groups, or personal growth across all maturity levels

 

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The Garden: A 52-Week Discipleship Path for Women Seeking to Cultivate Spiritual Maturity
A Spirit-led guide for deepening intimacy with God, rooting identity in Christ, and producing lasting fruit through daily surrender.

  • Designed for individual or small group use with Scripture, reflection, and personal application

  • Focuses on identity, pruning, abiding, and fruitfulness (John 15)

  • Equips believers to grow in obedience, healing, and Spirit-empowered living

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The Children’s Discovery Bible Story Pathway: A 52 Week Guided Journey Through the Big Story of God
This interactive, story-based discipleship tool helps children discover God’s character, understand the gospel, and grow in faith through engaging, reproducible lessons.

  • Features 40 core Bible stories with reflection, memory verses, and prayer points

  • Designed for parents, mentors, or children’s ministry settings (ages 4–11)

  • Emphasizes God’s love, redemptive plan, and child-level application of Scripture

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Youth Leadership Track: A Practical Framework for Raising Up Spirit-Led Student Leaders
This reproducible leadership pathway equips teens to grow in character, calling, and influence through biblical foundations and hands-on ministry training.

  • Designed for use in youth groups, mentoring, or mission teams (ages 13–18)

  • Focuses on identity in Christ, servant leadership, spiritual gifts, and team dynamics

  • Includes teaching outlines, journaling prompts, and leadership challenges

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Youth Leaders Handbook: Equipping Disciple-Makers to Lead with Vision, Integrity, and Reproducibility
This practical guide prepares youth leaders to shepherd students with biblical clarity, relational depth, and Spirit-empowered leadership.

  • Covers core topics like mentoring, communication, team-building, and spiritual formation

  • Designed for volunteer leaders, interns, and youth pastors in any ministry context

  • Includes reproducible tools, planning templates, and discipleship coaching tips

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Desolate Places Leader’s Guide: Facilitating Spirit-Led Transformation Through the Wilderness Journey
This guide equips mentors, pastors, and facilitators to lead others through the Desolate Places discipleship journey with clarity, compassion, and apostolic purpose.

  • Provides session outlines, discussion questions, and facilitation tips for individual or group use

  • Helps leaders guide others through brokenness, identity, calling, and surrender

  • Anchored in biblical models of wilderness formation and the Simplicity DNA of reproducible discipleship

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Recharge & Renewal Guide for Pastoral Teams: A Rhythmic Approach to Soul Care, Unity, and Vision Alignment
This guide provides intentional rhythms and reflection tools to help ministry leaders rest deeply, reconnect spiritually, and lead with renewed clarity.

  • Includes guided retreats, Sabbath planning tools, and team-building exercises

  • Focuses on emotional health, spiritual alignment, and relational unity among pastoral teams

  • Designed for quarterly rhythms, weekend getaways, or monthly team renewal practices

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Recharge & Renewal Guide for Business Leaders: Restoring Margin, Mission, and Spiritual Vitality in the Marketplace
This guide offers biblically grounded rhythms to help entrepreneurs and executives reset their focus, refresh their soul, and realign their leadership with God’s purposes.

  • Includes retreat templates, reflection prompts, and Scripture-based renewal practices

  • Designed for solo leaders or teams to pause, recalibrate, and hear from God

  • Emphasizes Sabbath rhythms, identity restoration, and marketplace calling clarity

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Prayer Coordinator Training Guide: Equipping Intercessory Leaders to Cultivate a Culture of Spirit-Led Prayer
This guide provides practical tools and spiritual insights to help coordinators mobilize prayer, steward prophetic direction, and align ministry teams with God’s heart.

  • Includes training modules on prayer mobilization, team leadership, and intercessory strategy

  • Designed for churches, networks, and mission teams seeking deeper spiritual alignment

  • Emphasizes listening prayer, watchman roles, and practical equipping for sustained prayer movements

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Prayer Evangelism Toolkit: Bridging Intercession and Outreach to Transform Hearts and Communities
This practical guide empowers believers to saturate their neighborhoods, workplaces, and cities in prayer as a gateway for gospel-centered impact.

  • Combines strategic intercession with Spirit-led outreach models from Luke 10

  • Includes prayer walk guides, blessing prayers, conversation starters, and follow-up tools

  • Designed for individuals, teams, or church-wide initiatives to carry hope and presence into everyday spaces

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Regional Prayer & Fasting Event Schedule: Uniting Believers Across Cities for Strategic Intercession and Kingdom Breakthrough
This schedule outlines coordinated gatherings of prayer, worship, and fasting designed to align regions with God’s heart and prepare the way for revival.

  • Includes dates, locations, and focus themes for upcoming regional events

  • Designed for churches, prayer networks, and ministry teams seeking unified spiritual engagement

  • Emphasizes repentance, citywide intercession, and Spirit-led activation across geographic areas

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Regional Warfare Prayer Guide: Strategic Intercession to Confront Strongholds and Advance God’s Kingdom Across Territories
This Spirit-led guide equips believers to engage in regional-level prayer with biblical authority, prophetic discernment, and unified spiritual resistance.

  • Includes biblical models of territorial warfare, watchman assignments, and decrees

  • Designed for use by intercessory teams, prayer networks, or city-reaching efforts

  • Focuses on identifying strongholds, declaring truth, and partnering with God’s purposes for regions

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Sermon Preparation Made Simple: A Spirit-Led Framework for Clear, Biblical, and Reproducible Preaching
This streamlined guide helps pastors and communicators craft impactful messages rooted in Scripture, shaped by the Spirit, and accessible for multiplication.

  • Provides step-by-step process from text study to final outline with application focus

  • Includes templates for expository, topical, and Spirit-prompted messages

  • Designed for bi-vocational leaders, church planters, and disciple-makers who teach

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Sermon Preparation for Young Preachers: A Simple, Spirit-Led Guide to Help Students Proclaim God’s Word with Confidence and Clarity
This resource equips teens and young adults with biblical foundations and practical tools to craft gospel-centered messages from study to delivery.

  • Step-by-step process for discovering the text, hearing from the Holy Spirit, and structuring a message

  • Designed for youth groups, student leadership teams, or mentoring relationships

  • Includes templates, practice outlines, and coaching prompts for first-time preachers

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Leadership Development Pathway: A Spirit-Empowered Journey for Equipping Reproducible Kingdom Leaders
This framework provides a clear, biblical process for developing servant-hearted leaders who walk in character, calling, and influence.

  • Covers identity, spiritual formation, ministry skills, and multiplication across five leadership phases

  • Designed for churches, networks, or mentoring environments to grow leaders at every level

  • Includes assessments, coaching questions, and reproducible tools for team development

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Spiritual Warfare & Healing Manual: Equipping Believers for Freedom, Authority, and Wholeness in Christ
This manual provides biblical foundations and Spirit-led strategies for confronting darkness, breaking strongholds, and ministering inner healing.

  • Includes teaching outlines, deliverance prayers, and healing ministry protocols

  • Designed for pastors, prayer teams, and disciple-makers engaging spiritual battle

  • Emphasizes identity, repentance, forgiveness, and the power of the Holy Spirit

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Spiritual Warfare & Healing Training Guide: A Practical Equipping Tool for Leading Others into Freedom and Wholeness
This hands-on guide trains ministry leaders and prayer teams to walk in biblical authority, minister healing, and engage in spiritual conflict with wisdom and power.

  • Covers foundational theology, ministry protocols, and real-world scenarios for prayer teams

  • Designed for church leaders, house church networks, or training intensives

  • Emphasizes discernment, spiritual authority, inner healing, and deliverance through Christ

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Apostolic Church Planting Manual: A Spirit-Led Framework for Launching Reproducible, Kingdom-Focused Communities
This manual equips pioneering leaders to plant churches that multiply disciples, advance the gospel, and reflect the apostolic DNA of simplicity, obedience, and mission.

  • Provides biblical foundations, strategic models, and practical tools for Spirit-driven church planting

  • Designed for planters, teams, and networks embracing non-institutional, missional approaches

  • Covers calling, team formation, disciple-making, spiritual authority, and sustainable multiplication

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Kingdom Entrepreneur Field Manual: Advancing God’s Purposes Through Spirit-Led Business and Marketplace Influence
This field manual equips Christian entrepreneurs to walk in their kingdom calling with biblical clarity, strategic vision, and Holy Spirit power.

  • Covers identity, stewardship, innovation, risk, and spiritual authority in the marketplace

  • Designed for business leaders, startup founders, and faith-driven innovators

  • Includes Scripture-based principles, practical templates, and activation exercises for kingdom impact

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Training the Trainer Discipleship Toolkit: Empowering Multipliers to Equip Disciple-Makers with Reproducible, Spirit-Led Tools
This toolkit provides everything needed to train others in foundational discipleship, leadership development, and simple, scalable ministry rhythms.

  • Includes session outlines, practice exercises, and coaching prompts for hands-on training

  • Designed for use in house churches, missions, or network leadership environments

  • Emphasizes simplicity, multiplication, and biblical obedience-based discipleship

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Train the Trainer Facilitator’s Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide for Equipping Disciple-Making Trainers in Any Context
This workbook provides session plans, facilitation tips, and coaching frameworks to help leaders multiply trainers who multiply others.

  • Includes interactive modules, group activities, and reflection tools for live training environments

  • Designed for use in house churches, mission teams, leadership cohorts, or grassroots movements

  • Emphasizes Spirit-led facilitation, reproducibility, and obedience-based discipleship

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Youth Kingdom Entrepreneur Workbook: Equipping the Next Generation to Build Spirit-Led Businesses with Purpose and Impact
This interactive workbook helps teens discover their God-given creativity, learn kingdom business principles, and develop ventures that honor Christ and serve others.

  • Features vision-mapping, identity-rooted leadership, and biblical foundations for entrepreneurship

  • Designed for youth mentoring, leadership programs, or student entrepreneurship cohorts (ages 13–18)

  • Includes worksheets, reflection prompts, and practical steps for launching a purpose-driven idea

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Youth Kingdom Entrepreneur Facilitator’s Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mentoring Teens in Spirit-Led Innovation and Purposeful Business
This facilitator’s workbook equips mentors and leaders to guide youth through biblical entrepreneurship with clarity, creativity, and kingdom impact.

  • Includes session outlines, discussion prompts, and coaching strategies for group or 1:1 settings

  • Designed for youth pastors, business mentors, and leadership programs (ages 13–18)

  • Emphasizes calling, stewardship, creativity, and launching ventures that reflect God’s heart

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Kingdom Entrepreneur Workshop: A Hands-On Training Experience for Building Spirit-Led Businesses that Advance God’s Kingdom
This workshop resource equips believers to integrate faith and entrepreneurship through biblical teaching, vision development, and practical activation.

  • Includes session outlines, teaching slides, group exercises, and launch templates

  • Designed for churches, business forums, or small groups to train aspiring kingdom entrepreneurs

  • Emphasizes calling, creativity, stewardship, and marketplace influence led by the Holy Spirit

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Kingdom Entrepreneur Workshop Facilitator’s Guide: A Practical Roadmap for Leading Spirit-Led Business Training with Clarity and Impact
This guide empowers facilitators to host transformational workshops that equip believers to launch businesses rooted in biblical principles and kingdom purpose.

  • Includes teaching scripts, timing guides, breakout instructions, and coaching tips

  • Designed for use in church settings, business incubators, or small group intensives

  • Focuses on calling, kingdom strategy, biblical stewardship, and Spirit-empowered leadership

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Kingdom Entrepreneur Field Manual: A Strategic Guide for Building Spirit-Led Businesses that Reflect God’s Heart and Advance His Kingdom
This field manual equips faith-driven entrepreneurs with biblical principles, practical tools, and spiritual alignment to launch and grow ventures with eternal impact.

  • Covers identity, calling, stewardship, risk-taking, and kingdom impact in the marketplace

  • Designed for business founders, creatives, and kingdom-minded professionals at any stage

  • Includes frameworks for planning, prayer, innovation, and Spirit-led execution

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Resilient Shepherd Manual: A Soul-Care and Strengthening Guide for Long-Haul Faithful Pastors and Ministry Leaders
This manual equips leaders to endure with joy, lead with integrity, and thrive spiritually through the pressures of sustained ministry.

  • Includes spiritual formation rhythms, burnout prevention tools, and leadership resilience practices

  • Designed for pastors, planters, and ministry teams navigating long-term or high-impact ministry

  • Emphasizes intimacy with God, emotional health, healthy boundaries, and Spirit-led perseverance

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Family Discipleship Toolkit: Equipping Parents to Lead Spirit-Led, Scripture-Centered Discipleship at Home
This practical resource empowers families to cultivate faith together through everyday rhythms of worship, prayer, and biblical conversation.

  • Includes weekly guides, conversation prompts, Scripture readings, and activity ideas

  • Designed for households of all sizes and ages—simple, flexible, and Spirit-led

  • Emphasizes identity in Christ, family unity, and reproducible discipleship in the home

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Desolate Places for Pastors: A Spirit-Led Journey into Rest, Refinement, and Renewed Calling
This guide invites pastors into intentional seasons of withdrawal where God restores identity, clarifies vision, and deepens intimacy for sustainable, Spirit-empowered ministry.

  • Includes reflective prompts, wilderness themes, and Scripture-based formation pathways

  • Designed for retreats, sabbaticals, or personal renewal in the midst of ministry fatigue

  • Emphasizes surrender, hiddenness, and rediscovery of God’s voice in desolate places

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Church Under the Tree: A Simple, Spirit-Led Model for Gathering, Worship, and Disciple-Making Anywhere
This resource equips believers to form reproducible faith communities outside traditional buildings through presence-based worship and relational discipleship.

  • Includes startup guides, gathering rhythms, and leadership principles for simple church

  • Designed for house churches, outdoor gatherings, missions, and grassroots movements

  • Emphasizes intimacy with God, community, Scripture, and multiplication without infrastructure

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Bible Story Telling Trainer: Equipping Disciple-Makers to Share God’s Word Clearly, Creatively, and Reproducibly
This trainer’s guide provides tools to help believers learn, practice, and teach oral Bible storytelling for evangelism, discipleship, and church planting.

  • Includes story selection, memorization techniques, group practice activities, and coaching tips

  • Designed for use in house churches, mission fields, children’s ministry, and training schools

  • Emphasizes accuracy, simplicity, Spirit-led storytelling, and multiplication through oral culture

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Bible Story Telling Manual: A Practical Guide to Learning and Sharing God’s Word Through Oral Storytelling
This manual equips believers to internalize and retell key Bible stories with clarity, accuracy, and Spirit-led application for any setting.

  • Includes step-by-step training in story crafting, memory tools, and group discussion methods

  • Designed for disciple-makers, missionaries, children’s workers, and oral culture contexts

  • Emphasizes reproducibility, engagement, and Scripture-rooted transformation through story

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21 Day Prayer & Fasting Guide: A Spirit-Led Journey of Renewal, Breakthrough, and Deeper Intimacy with God
This guide leads individuals and groups through 21 focused days of Scripture, prayer themes, and fasting practices to align hearts with the Lord and prepare for Kingdom impact.

  • Includes daily devotionals, fasting tips, prayer focuses, and journaling space

  • Designed for personal consecration, church-wide seasons, or mission preparation

  • Emphasizes surrender, repentance, spiritual hunger, and hearing God’s voice

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2 Day Apostolic Church Planting Training: A High-Impact Equipping Experience for Launching Simple, Reproducible Kingdom Communities
This intensive two-day training equips emerging leaders with biblical vision, practical tools, and Spirit-led strategies to multiply churches from the harvest.

  • Includes teaching outlines, activation exercises, and facilitation guides for movement-style planting

  • Designed for use in house churches, missions, leadership cohorts, or regional gatherings

  • Emphasizes apostolic DNA, disciple-making movements, and multiplication without dependence on buildings or programs

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