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Church Planting

Multiplying "communities of disciples who follow Jesus."

Our desire is to follow Jesus ultimately to see a healing gathering of Christ-followers within practical, cultural and relational distance of every person and touching every neighbourhood with Christ's saving power, love, care and truth - that “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea (Habakkuk 2:14).”

Beginning Your First Disciple-Making Community:

Making disciples

Forming disciple-making communities

Understanding Church Planting Movements:

Root principles of Movements that Move - Dwight Marble

Church Planting Movements (CPMs) - David Garrison

Can CPMs take place in the West? - David Garrison and Ed Stetzer

"Critical Elements of CPMs" - David Watson, in 2 formats:

MP3 audio

FLC video (can be downloaded to play in VLC Media Player)

"CPM Counter-Intuitives" - David Watson, 20 brief teaching segments (in MP3)

Mission Frontiers on T4T; full issue on CPM approaches.

Carol Davis: "Stop Planting Sterile Churches" (PDF)

The difference between church planting and CPMs (Perspectives "Lesson 13") MP3 audio
How to plant reproducing churches (Perspectives "Lesson 13") MP3 audio

Perspective on the Global Task:

The Past: click here for a very encouraging historical perspective

Today: (click on either of these images to enlarge)

Each dot represents evangelical presence.

Next Steps: please read Seven Million Churches to Go - Jim Montgomery

Comparative Global Needs for Church Planting:

Global and regional maps: in PowerPoint or PDF

By Country: in Excel including

% evangelical & evangelical growth rate

% Christian & Christian growth rate

unreached people groups

number of Christian congregations

church-to-population ratios (showing comparative priorities for church planting)

number of new churches needed to bring church-to-population ratio to 1:1000

Christian, Evangelical and Muslim distribution and trends (PowerPoint).

Other Studies: Todd Johnson - "Christianity in Global Context: Trends and Statistics" (PDF)

"Discipling a Whole Nation" Strategies (DAWN or SCP): Practical steps for those committed to engage a 'whole city, region or nation':

In a Word - What is DAWN? - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

13 Steps to Saturation Church Planting - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

Fire in the Philippines - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

The Discipling of a Nation - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

Seven Million Churches to Go - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

Then the End Will Come - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

Also by Dr. Montgomery:

13 Steps to a Successful Growth Program - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

The DAWN Research Handbook - Roy Wingerd (PDF)

Contributions to a Canadian Experiment - Murray Moerman

Leadership involves learning to develop teams

For links to more church planting sites, please click here.

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