World Missions & Evangelism, Inc.

In this article I want to begin to explain some key concepts about "Church Planting Movements." I hope to both give key information and to help you understand my passion for CPM . There are two ways of looking at the "mission" of Christ. One is to see it as a general goal (the Great Commission) with a number of related, but separate, tasks that different people engage in and that somehow contribute to fulfilling the task. Some examples might be: Preaching Training leaders Building church buildings Christian schools Medical missions Food distribution Church planting Crusades Bible colleges In this view, the list of activities are all separate and equal activities which people would engage in based on gifts, interest or need. The other way would be to see a more specific goal, such as church planting or the development of church planting movements as the target and to see the other types of ministries as elements of that goal. This example would look more like a circ

For Several weeks, since we started this blog, I have been giving a lot of "Big Picture" background on Church Planting Movements and how World Missions and Evangelism has gotten involved. Also, I have spent time on Big Goals in terms of finishing the task worldwide. Now, I want to focus on our specific project: a pilot C.P.M. project in Honduras, Central America. W.M.E.'s strategy coordinator is Randy Travis, a veteran missionary. Along with his wife, Linda, son, Keith, and daughter-in-law, Juanita, he is overseeing this project. This project has a goal of planting one hundred churches that will multiply into thousands and goes by the initials H.C.P.M.. The pictures and videos on this blog are from this project. Today, August 1, 2008, it has been twenty-four months since the inception of the H.C.P.M. project. Here is a timeline of what has been done to launch this project. September 2006: David Parish and Randy Travis take intensive training in C.P.M. principles from Davi