THere are several ways churches can be planted in the Greater Sydney Area:

1. Mother-Daughter Church Plant: An established church sees the need to plant a new church in an unreached community.  The church forms a church planting team and supports the church plant until the new congregation becomes viable.  By implementing effective leadership development and multiplication processes, a healthy church plant is launched and the mother church becomes healthier as well through the planting process.

2. Pioneering Team: The Holy Spirit inspires a small team of people with the shared vision and need to reach a particular unreached people group.  This team develops its discipleship strategy and steps out in faith to start connecting with unchurched people.  The church grows as the team leads people from the community to Jesus and disciples them into His kingdom.

3. House Church Network: A house church network is a simple, low-cost and highly relational way of reaching people in the community.  The people involved meet weekly in homes to worship together, sing, pray, study the Bible and fellowship together.  The goal is to connect with people in the community, to disciple new Christians and to develop leaders with the view of multiplying the house churches in the network.  It is important to note that the weekly house church meeting is the regular church worship for everyone involved.  The house church network can complement this weekly house church fellowship by periodically meeting together for a larger worship service.

4. Planting Partnership: Two or more established churches identify the need to work together to plant another church in an unreached area.  The leadership teams of these churches collaborate to build a church planting team and develop the plans to plant the new congregation.  All the churches in the partnership support the launch and growth of the new church during the initial stages.  This inter-church collaboration enhances the viability of the new church and builds positive relationships between the churches.

5. Multi-site Church: A growing church sees the opportunity to reach more people by replicating its services in other locations.  A leadership team provides vision and direction for all of the congregations.  The congregations at the other locations can either be led by a leader who has been trained by the founding church, or they can simultaneously watch the same sermon via video-link.  All of the congregations within the multi-site church share the same or very similar leadership structures, vision and strategies.

6. Evangelistic Campaign: An evangelistic campaign is organised in a neutral venue, such as a school, RSL club or community centre.  The people from the community who attend the whole campaign develop a real sense of community with the other attendees, and a church plant is formed at the end of the campaign.  Leadership structures need to be well-planned and established soon after the church plant is launched.  This is a very effective way of consolidating the decisions of people who respond to evangelistic campaigns and discipling new Seventh-day Adventist Christians.

7. Church Replant: A small church with a dwindling, older congregation recognises the need to transform itself in order to reach the surrounding community.  The existing leadership team hands over the leadership baton to a younger leadership team and allows them to replant the church, recognising that significant changes will need to be made in the process.  When handled with care and courage, this results in a vibrant new church being launched in an existing facility.

8. Conference-initiated Mission Project: Through studying the demographics of its territory, the Conference identifies a particular unreached area or people group.  The Conference facilitates the appointment of leaders for this church plant project, which may involve appointing a pastor to lead the project, and empowers the leaders to build a missional team for the church plant.