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12 Months Blocs Spotlight for May 2013
Peoples of Southeast Asia with an Emphasis on the Thai Family of Peoples
Tags: buddhist, church planting, southeast asia, thai, thailand
Southeast Asian peoples are found in 15 main clusters, but only four have established or significant church movements: the Cham, Miao/Hmong, Mon-Khmer, and smaller tribal groups. Two, the Lao and...
12 Months Blocs Spotlight for June 2013
Malay Peoples with Emphasis on the Peoples of Sumatra
Tags: affinity bloc, church planting, indonesia, malay, sumatra
Across the vast Indonesian island of Sumatra, gospel seeds are sprouting from cities and towns among the tangled jungles and woven underbrush. Nurtured by prayer and intercession, believers in...
Generational Mapping
Tracking Elements of Church Formation Within CPM's
Tags: church planting, mapping, multiplication, t4t
Beginning in 2006 my wife and I had a genuine problem on our hands. Churches were multiplying! All that we had studied, prayed for and discovered in Scripture suddenly seemed to erupt before our...
The Dependency Syndrome
Prevention and Early Detection
Tags: church planting, dependency, funds, prevention
Those following medical reports these days are aware that several themes keep recurring. One is the importance of prevention of serious illness. Another theme is early detection. Of course, the...
How to Adapt
Churches in Churched Cultures for Church-Planting Movements: Three Stories from North Carolina
Tags: church planting, churched, t4t, training
The buried treasure of equipping existing churches with evangelism/discipleship tools, like Training for Trainers (T4T), is that we may wake the sleeping giant. Every community has an endowment of...
A Church-Planting Movement is a Leadership Movement
Tags: church planting, leadership, movement
As we look around the world today, most dynamic Church-Planting Movements are starting in areas with poverty, crises, turmoil, persecution and few Christians. In contrast, in areas with peace,...
Facing the Brutal Facts of Church-Planting
Tags: catalyst, church planting, lay leaders, small
Many people misunderstand why some missionaries pursue Church-Planting Movements and models such as house churches. If we discuss some issues that are often forgotten, you may understand better why...
Church Models
And How They Mix (or Not) with Church-Planting Movements
Tags: cell church, church, church planting, house church
While no one structure is prescribed for Church-Planting Movements (CPMs) or rapid multiplication, adaptation and change is often required to allow CPM-type groups to exist within these...
It’s HUGE
Five Lessons the American Church is Learning from Church-Planting Movements
Tags: american, church planting, conversion, reproduciblity
News of Church-Planting Movements (CPMs) happening around the world has been a wake up call for many American church leaders to reexamine, reframe and retool. Others have simply dismissed rapid...