Sending churches and donors
Send someone you'd rather keep
Every Seedline church was sent by another church, usually at real cost. Here is how sending works, and what your money and your people actually pay for.
Partnership levels
What a monthly commitment pays for
Churches and households give at every level. Each one is a three-year pledge you can review every January.
$250/month
Cohort partner
Covers books, retreats and assessment costs for one resident across the year.
- Quarterly cohort report
- Invitation to assessment debriefs
Most churches start here$1,800/month
Residency sponsor
Pays one resident's full stipend for the ten-month residency.
- Your resident's monthly letter
- A visit to the host church
- Coach's report each quarter
- Your name on nothing, unless you want it
$4,000/month
Launch partner
Covers a new church's rent and coaching for its first public year.
- Two seats on the launch team
- Annual visit from the coach
- First-Sunday invitation
Seedline Network is a 501(c)(3). Every partner receives the planter's quarterly coaching report.
What sending costs
Colfax Commons sent away 41 people in five years
When Colfax Commons commissioned its fourth planting team in 2024, it said goodbye to its youth pastor, two worship leaders and most of a small group. Weekly attendance dropped by sixty people for a season.
It is now larger than before it started sending. We can't promise that will happen to you, but we have watched it happen five times.
- Release your planter well, with a commissioning Sunday
- Keep paying part of their salary through residency
- Send two to five households on the launch team
- Expect to feel the gap for about a year
Who sends
Twenty-six sending churches, nine denominations
A sample of the congregations that have sent a planter or fund a residency every year. Some are a hundred years old; three were planted by Seedline themselves.
Become a sending church- Wash Park Covenant ChurchSince 2016
Sent the planters of Englewood Common Prayer and Littleton Street Church.
- Iglesia Monte SiónAurora
Hosts the Spanish-language assessment weekend every spring.
- St.Aidan's,LakewoodAnglican
Funds one residency every year and lends its hall to Lakewood Night Church.
- Bear Creek Bible ChurchMorrison
Its elders coach two first-year planters on Thursday mornings.
- Mile High MennoniteSince 2019
Taught us how to run a peace-and-reconciliation retreat for planting couples.
- Colfax CommonsPlanted 2017
Our largest church and our most generous sender: four planting teams so far.