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3,000 churches are planted in the last three years in East Africa. How did that happen? What are the keys to this multiplication? David Hunt and City Team ministries evaluated their effectiveness in ministry. God changed their vision to plant churches, who will plant churches throughout the whole world. David went of to Ethiopia and established partnerships with local organisations. Read to learn how God used them to start a CPM in East Africa.

Why don’t we see a Church Planting Movement yet in the West, while in other continents millions are coming to Christ? Felicity shares 15 points why we don’t see a big harvest. Here are a few of them: lack of apostolic passion, we don’t GO to the people, we don’t have a vision of making disciples and there is a lack of training. Continue reading to learn more!

In this book Malcolm Gladwell describes three points that can converge to bring about dramatic change in society and start a movement. The first one is the context (the situational environment), the second one the idea, and the third one the people involved. Very small changes in any or several of the context, the quality of the idea (which he calls ‘stickiness’) and whether the idea reaches a very small group of key people can trigger a dramatic epidemic of change in society. Three kind op people are important to catalyze a movement: Connectors (they know everybody and bring people together), Mavens (people who know everything about a subject and spread this knowledge) and Salesmen (people who share, inspire and persuade people). We, as simple church people, can learn from Malcolm how to fuel a movement for Christ.

Roland Allen describes what the nature is of spontaneous expansion of the church: the Holy Spirit urges people to share from their hearts the gospel out of which He expands it beyond our control. He talks about the common fears and blockages for expansion and describes how the churches in the New Testament could multiply soo rapidly.