Closing the Gap

From an Urban CPMs Summit

In February 2009 a meeting was held of several urban church planting practitioners from nine urban centers ranging in population from three million to twenty-five million. The selection criterion for these cities was that more than one hundred churches had been planted to at least the third generation. The goal …

2002 Jedidistan CPM Assessment

As early as September of 2000, formal reports reached International Mission Board, SBC leadership from at least three sources affirming that a significant number of Muslims were embracing Christianity in various parts of Jedidistan (pseudonym for a Muslim country in Asia). The reports included news of the movement crossing the border into …

Bhojpuri CPM

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. 1. Since the early 1990s significant numbers of rapidly growing and reproducing new churches have formed among the Bhojpuri people in the northern Indian states …

Mentoring: Inspiring, Mobilizing, Motivating, and Equipping – David L. Watson

You have to be an example before you can inspire, mobilize, motivate, and equip effectively. It’s always great to have talented and intelligent mentees. But, you will not attract these potential high level leaders unless your life exemplifies what they dream about and want to become. Mentoring requires a transparent …

Endorsement – Curtis Sergeant

What most excites me about the Partnering for Strategic Church Planting event in Colorado Springs on May 1-6, 2011 is that it will include time to actually sit down with others focused on reaching unengaged people groups and make specific collaborative plans for initiating new work among those people groups. …

Endorsement – Dr. Kent Parks

I am very stimulated by the possibility of learning and planning together with over 100 mission leaders, some of whom have helped start literally thousands of reproducing, transformational congregations. Further, the strong commitment of the planning committee to leave this meeting with specific strategic plans for collaborative and strategic transformation …