Latin America:
- San Jose, Costa Rica in the fall of 2009
The training has been reproduced in Venezuela, Brazil and in rural Costa Rica. In Mexico City a Youth Missions movement is giving birth to new churches. In South Brazil, following teaching on church planting in 2002, we have seen four generations of church reproduction.
Africa:
In East Africa, ReachAfrica launched Church Multiplication Training in Gemena, Democratic Republic of Congo in August 2010. It has extended to the capital Kinshasa and to several other countries such as Congo Brazaville, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan.
In the West, the same training was launched in Lome, Togo in June 2009 and in Monrovia, Liberia, in January 2011. From Monrovia it was spread to neighboring Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone. It has been translated into Portuguese for Mozambique and Angola.
Europe:
Training was laucnhed in Prague, Czech Republic in 06-2011. The leaders there are organizing for a sequel to the training and inviting people from neighboring countries.
Middle East and North Africa:
Workers gather from four Arab-speaking nations in this Middle Eastern country that will remain unnamed. In 03-2011, the emphasis was on church planting and participants discussd how they could go from addition to multiplication. The diversity of degrees of restrictions and the political unrest stimulated great discussions. The consensus is that methodology must be adapted to the local context.
Asia:
In February, 2001, potential trainers received training in Communist Country in SE Asia. The secret gathering was held in a hotel. No manuals or printed matreial were allowed; everything was done digitally. The training will continue in February, 2012. Plans are being made for an ongoing Church Planting Institute.
A partnership was formed with a movement of about 30 churches in West Bengal. In ovember, 2011, the first installment of training was offered to lay evangelists and church planters in Kokata. Level 1 was completed and level 2 will follow in the fall of 2012
In November, 2011, church leaders gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal to talk about how to work together to continue the church planting movement that has been growing there. They would like to see it spread all over the country. An invitation has been given to train 100 church planters from the capital region in 2012, and to prepare trainers to take the training to the outlying regions
How can you be involved?
Details can't be published on the web. However if you would like to know how you can help these church planting movements to be strengthened through training and coaching, we invite you to consider partnering with us. Please email Gene at Matt9.38@efca.org
