World Missions & Evangelism, Inc.

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." -Matthew 24:14 Let me introduce a concept called "Project 2030." This is a time frame goal. The goal is to fulfil the basic requirement of Matthew 24:14 by the year 2030. Why 2030? There is a broad consensus that the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ took place in 30 AD. Also, of course, this was the year when He spoke the Great Commission, ascended to heaven and the Church was born at Pentecost. Thus, completing the task by 2030 would be finishing at exactly 2000 years following the commission and the giving of the Holy Spirit. Can it be done? The answer is: YES! With the work of the Holy Spirit. Is there a strategy to initiate? I suggest a UPG / CPM strategy. Focusing on Unreached People Groups and utilizing strategies that are birthing Church Planting Movements can be the strategy that achieves the goal. The Powe...

In my last blog I talked about the concept of winning the world in 1 generation. By suggesting such a concept, I am not downplaying the extent of the challenge. But church planting movement strategy is one of multiplication not addition, and this explains how it can be done. To begin with, let's do a simple exercise that is familiar to lots of people in some form. Keeping it simple (it usually starts with a penny and extends for 30 days) let me ask you whether you would rather have me give you 100 dollars per day for 21 days, or give you 1 dollar the first day and double it every day after for 21 days. If you choose the 100 per day option, in 21 days you will have 2100 dollars. If you choose the 1 dollar doubled option, in 21 days you will have more than 1 million dollars. That is addition versus multiplication. Let's make it about souls. If you are a world class personal evangelist and win a soul by witnessing every day for the next 10 years, at the end of that time y...

When I received the CPM training with David Watson, one of the most fascinating sessions was a presentation on how the Great Commission could be completed in one generation. Taking its lead from Matthew 24:14 and Matthew 24:34 the concept was that the task could be completed in one generation. In fact, the scripture may be predicting that that is precisely how it will be done. Such a concept seems far fetched to someone who is familiar with the level of task that remains. There are about 9600 Unreached People Groups by some of the latest calculations of experts. There are over 4 billion non-christian people. The sheer magnitude of the remaining task and the track record of the last 2000 years would suggest to many that a gradual multi generational approach is needed. But as we consider the problem, we see that as the earth's population is continuing to explode exponentially, the completion of the task must increase in speed that exceeds the population growth. Could it be done in on...

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 ...