Too often church planters focus on the things that they can count easily, even when it blinds them to the more important transformative measures that correlate more closely with the biblical concepts of repentance and discipleship.

In Germany, SKB bank finances Free Church building projects. ‘Building churches together’ is the motto of the institution, which has supported more than 100 projects.

The EKD continues to dwindle in 2013 and 2014 while free evangelical churches experience slight gains in church attendance.

Starting a church in “the land of $3,000 apartments, transient tech workers and rationalist tendencies,” is a challenge that church planters are facing. Reaching young professionals seem to be the key, according to a The Guardian report.

Almost 1,600 communities have been planted since 1970. Already 2/3 of all practicing Protestants in France are Evangelicals.