Outside the office I once occupied in the International Mission Board’s headquarters in Richmond, Virginia hung a beautiful posterized photograph of a group of Maasai warriors clustered beneath an acacia tree on the savannahs of East Africa. It was not until I visited the Maasai plains in 1999 that I returned to my office to
What We Believe Each contributor to the ChurchPlantingMovements.com website has his or her own unique spiritual pilgrimage, and it would be unrealistic to try to subordinate them all to a single creed or confession of faith. Those associated with the International Mission Board, for example, find guidance and accord in the 2000 Baptist Faith and
Mythiology is a neologism, a newly coined word. The term ‘mythiology’ was coined by a missionary colleague in South Asia. He used it to refer to one of those casually accepted truths about how to do missions, that may have elements of truth within it — like most myths — but in reality is either
One of the first Church Planting Movements that we identified was associated with the work of David and Jan Watson and their partner Victor John. You can read the original executive summary of that CPM that was conducted by the Southern Baptist International Mission Board in the year 2000 here.
Missionaries in China use the term "Trailblazer" to describe front-liners who immerse themselves in the lives of their people, while working with Strategy Coordinators to catalyze multiplying house churches. See how one Trailblazer and Strategy Coordinator have teamed up with Chinese partners to stimulate a multiplying movement in a small Chinese city of about 750,000
Not everything happening in China is a Church Planting Movement. See how one SC (Strategy Coordinator) is struggling to overcome extra-biblical traditions and using CPM to help three urban and rural movements to build momentum. This 3-stream case study is a good one to analyze obstacles to CPMs and how they can slow or cripple
During a trial in a Southern small-town, the prosecuting attorney called his first witness, an elderly grandmother to the stand. He approached her and asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know me?” She responded, “Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I’ve known you since you were a boy, and frankly, you’ve been a big
Download the English language Vedic Bridge for beginning a witness to Hindus here.
In 2006, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association launched "My Hope India" across South Asia resulting in hundreds of thousands of decisions for Jesus Christ. In a multi-agency partnership, Curtis Sergeant helped develop discipleship materials to follow up with the masses of new believers guiding them into the formation of new home-based churches. You can download
Download David Garrison's 1999 CPM booklet in standard English here.
