Church Planting is the natural result of dynamic evangelism and missions work combined with effective disciple-making at a local or regional level.
Church planting is a process to initiate a self-sustaining, multiplying movement of churches that plant new churches (congregations of Believers) within an Unreached People Group (UPG).
The vision is that each church would become self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating, then resolve to plant new churches within their People Group and beyond.
These new churches can meet in a building, storefront, private home, a business, or “under a tree” – this is not the traditional model of church-planting in the western world.
What do you think of when you hear the term “Church Plant”?
A group of people (perhaps some distributed from the mother church), an associate pastor, a strip mall suite, and funding for a year or so from the mother church.
This is the typical model of church planting in western cultures.
What is a church plant overseas? Young disciples with 1-4 families, meeting wherever they can, generating resources to support themselves.
In Western environments, this is equivalent to a Small Group under the covering of a larger church congregation!
Church Planting Movement (CPM) is the continuous, even exponential, movement of churches planting self-governing, self-propagating, and self-sustaining churches within their community, region, and beyond.
Church Planter is a God-called leader who is gifted, trained, and deployed to initiate a church-planting movement in any of the four levels of evangelism.
