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David Garrison's pamphlet "Church Planting Movements" had moved me and my agency and partners into a 7 year program of training church planters and deploying them in unreached areas. By 2008 we have planted over 200 churches. But we were not seeing the "Movement" aspect of the program. In June 2005 I took the Perspectives course and was introduced to one of the teachers who was personally acquainted with David Watson who had launched the CPM among a people group in India. This was described in Garrison's book. The CPM had been launched during 1991-1994, and by 2007 had resulted in nearly 3 million new believers and probably 40,000 churches. The perspectives teacher also told our class about a new CPM in west Africa where between February 2005 and January 2008 about 500 churches have been planted and 30,000 new believers have emerged, approximately 21,000 from Muslim backgrounds. WOW! Through this connection, I was enabled to spend a week being trained in C

In my last post, I described my journey to receiving a vision for church planting internationally. After years of local church ministry, I was on my first short term mission trip in Honduras, when the burden for church planting crystallized in my life. When I returned from that trip, I got in contact with one of our mission agency's affiliated missionaries. His name is Randy Travis and he had been a part of WME since 1988. He had planted four churches in Honduras by that time and was also working in southern Mexico. Randy and I spent some time together while he was doing some itineration in May of 1994. From that time on, he and I became strategists together to understand and plan the most effective methods of church planting that we could find. This collaboration ultimately came to total fruition in September 2006, but that is a story for a little later. Meanwhile, Randy shared his research with me and over the next few years he helped educate me on cutting edge missiological insi

To get started, I want to tell about my journey into involvement with church planting movements. Hopefully this will let my readers understand where I am coming from as well as help them discover the concepts of cpm as I did.I was born in the early 1960s to a committed christian couple. My parents were pastors of an evangelical church and I accepted the Lord as my personal savior at a very early age. From the beginning of my christian walk, I was very committed to the Lord and wanted to serve Him. While still a young person, I sensed a call to ministry and even began to preach whenever I would have an opportunity while I was still a teenager.In order to pursue my call to ministry, I went to Lee College in Cleveland, Tennessee, a christian liberal arts college. There I received great theological training and met my wife, Patty. We married during my senior year there.Although I loved the Lord and was enthusiastic about ministry, I really did not have a burden or vision for world missions

Hello. My name is David Parish. Welcome to my blogspot about Church Planting Movements. In this blogspot, I will be sharing my thoughts and experiences concerning CPM. Let me begin by telling you a little about who I am. I am a "40 something" pastor of a missions-minded church. I also work with a missions agency and the mission program of a fellowship of churches. When I was a bible college student, over 20 years ago, God called me to be in missions. Finally 13 years ago, I launched out on my first short-term mission trip. It was on that mission trip to the Central American country of Honduras that a vision to help the kingdom of God advance through church planting gripped me. From that day, I started a journey that I am still on. We have planted over 200 churches in the last 7 years and our goals for the next several years is to plant thousands of churches world-wide. I will be posting here weekly (or as much as possible) about Church Planting Movements and the work that I