We believe that everyone can be a part of a team planting a new church, but that it takes something special to lead a new plant. The assesment is a tool that helps identify who has what is required to succseed as a leader for a churchplant. An assesment interview is set to 3 hours with a leader, an assistant and a observer. Prior to the interview the candidate does a self assesment through filling out two forms. The assesment focuses on these topics: Calling, Character, Chemistry and Competance. You can take our online assessment in English here in two parts:

• Pre Assessment Interview Questionnaire
• Church Planter Profile Inventory

M4 Norway basic training has different layers.

• All the teaching is compiled into two books: Master and Mission (red book), Multiplication and Movement (blue book). It is expected that everyone who goes through the process read these two books.
• An online e-learning plattform has been developed: Growdly.no, where planters and their teams can learn and develop. Here you can watch the teaching videos, do assignments, evaluate yourself and more.
• Finally, we have four Learning Communities over the course of 2 years. Each Learning Community focuses on a different topic in the church planting process that planters and their teams need to learn about and process. Finally, the teams create an action plan that will guide their church over the next 6 months.

To plant a church is hard and time-consuming work, therefore we consider coaching to be key in this process. A coach meets with the planter once a month. A coach both challenge and encourage the planter and meet witht the team one time between each week-end gathering in the M4 process. There has been developed an M4 coaching manual, and we can offer some coaching training, but we want to see coaches from the denominations and networks that the team is planting from.