Church Planting Movements Look What God Is Doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

What is Your Vision? © WIGTake Resources 2010

What Can I Do? The Wrong Question © WIGTake Resources 2010

What does God desire? The Right Question © WIGTake Resources 2010

Demands – A God-Sized Answer A God-Sized Question © WIGTake Resources 2010

Let’s Look at What God is Doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

In Latin America Begun in 1983, César Castellanos’s cell church in Bogotá, Colombia has grown to more than 20,000 cells and 100,000 members. In San Salvador, Sergio Solórzano’s Elim church claims 116,000 people regularly attending 5,300 cell groups. Each Sunday morning, the church rents 600 city buses to transport cell members to the weekly celebration services. Look what God is doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

In Cuba Between 1990 and 2000, Cuban Baptists grew from 235 to more than 4,000 churches. By 2010 Evangelicals across Cuba are on track to see 100,000 churches with 1 million baptized believers. Church leaders estimate that 70% of the country's 13 million residents have received a Jesus Film, New Testament, or personal witness to Jesus Christ. Look what God is doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

In Africa Across the continent of Africa, Christianity has exploded from less than 9 million in 1900 to more than 470 million in Barrett and Johnson, “World Religious Statistics,” in the January 29, 2010 International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Look what God is doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

In the Muslim World A movement in North Africa grows from 22,000 baptized believers in 2003 to more than 160,000 in More Iranians have come to Christ since 1979 than in the thousand years that preceded it. A movement in South Asia was assessed in 2002 with more than 125,000 baptized Muslim-background believers. Look what God is doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

In the Muslim World (continued) In an Al-Jazeera interview Libyan Sheikh Ahmed al-Katani* stated, “In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every day, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity.” President of the Companions Lighthouse for the Science of Islamic Law, Libya viewed 7 Jan 2010 Look what God is doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

Look what God is doing! In India A Madhya Pradesh Church Planting Movement produces 4,000 new churches in less than seven years. A Church Planting Movement among Bhojpuri peoples yields more than 11,000 new churches and nearly 1,000,000 new believers in less than ten years. © WIGTake Resources 2010

In China In China, more than 30,000 new believers are baptized every day. In Henan Province Christianity explodes from less than a million to more than five million believers in only eight years. Look what God is doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

Look what God is doing! In China (continued) A southern China Church Planting Movement produces more than 90,000 baptized believers in 920 house churches in eight years time. A Church Planting Movement in a northern Chinese province sees 20,000 new believers and 500 new churches planted in less than five years. © WIGTake Resources 2010

Look what God is doing! In China (continued) In 2004, one church planting movement in China produced an average of 1,700 new churches—each month! In August 2005, this movement saw 2,400 new churches started – in one month! © WIGTake Resources 2010

In the T4T Movement A recent movement started in China in 2001, has produced the fastest growing Church Planting Movement in the world to date. They have already seen nearly two million baptisms and more than 80,000 new church starts in less than a decade. Look what God is doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

In America In 17 years, one Baptist church in North Carolina became the mother, grandmother and great grandmother to 42 churches from which sprang 125 ministers. That was only one of scores of Church Planting Movements that swept across North America. But that was nearly 200 years ago…. Look what God is doing! © WIGTake Resources 2010

Defining Church Planting Movements C hurch Planting Movements are rapidly multiplying indigenous churches planting churches that sweep across a people group or population segment. © WIGTake Resources 2010

A Five-Part Descriptive Definition Rapid Multiplication Indigenous Churches Planting Churches Within a People Group or Population Segment © WIGTake Resources 2010

Why are CPMs so important? God is at work in them He has specific roles for us to play Nothing on earth so rapidly multiplies the glory of God. © WIGTake Resources 2010

Additional Resources Church Planting Movements, How God Is Redeeming a Lost World (Midlothian, VA: WIGTake Resources, 2004), 364 pp. Kevin Greeson’s The Camel, How Muslims Are Coming to Faith in Christ (Richmond, VA: WIGTake Resources, 2007), 216 pp. Available at: © WIGTake Resources 2007