What will be expected of Partnered Training Churches in order to participate?

It is necessary to ensure that the collaboration can support all the leaders which it trains and sends out to plant new churches. Thus, the Partnered Training Churches must be contributing to the church multiplication effort in some form. If a church is training a church planter it would be necessary to set aside funds for the future church plant regardless of whether this was done individually or through a collaborative effort such as ELIs. Banding together with this type of collaborative effort however, allows churches to participate in church planting in an ongoing way rather than just a linear fashion. In addition, the Training Church Partners in particular will be expected to meet a set of criteria designed to ensure that all church planters are properly prepared for postmodern evangelism.