VISION:
The overall vision in this initiative is to produce “A LIVING CHURCH IN EVERY COMMUNITY, PLANTED BY ORDINARY BELIEVERS WHO ARE EQUIPPED WITH PRACTICAL SKILLS AND TOOLS”.
A Living Church in every community planted by ordinary believers implies churches planted by mature and committed indigenous/local believers from a specific people group who have a burden to evangelize and disciple their own communities.
GOAL:
The goal in the Church Planting and Training Initiative is to establish a rapid increase of indigenous Churches among unreached people groups that will be capable of sustaining evangelization and discipleship of their own communities. The initiative is coordinated and run by trained local Church believers within a specific people group.
In the current program, ordinary, mature believers, native of a typical community/tribe, will be equipped with good knowledge of the Bible, trained on practical skills are envisaged for Church Planting and training to plant a living Church in every community in Africa
The essence of the training is to build national church planters to plant churches as Jesus Christ commanded us to go, preach and make disciples of all nations. The training adopts a Modular (5 Modules) system offering a contextual and practical skill transfer on to the church planters providing opportunities to empower churches evangelize and counter non-biblical churches and groups. The alternative training program is sought because education of the church planters is expensive and churches don’t have adequate resources to address the needs. Hence, the alternative program, apart from helping churches focus on church planting has increased the native missionaries and cross-cultural missionaries to work beyond African boundaries. The program approach has also fostered unity among denominations and focused on the kingdom.
Theme:
To empower Churches in our Region with Practical Church Planting skills and other resources to establish in every community reproducible and sustainable indigenous churches through Church planting as the most appropriate method of evangelism to un-reached communities.
Obligation of the Program:
- Module Church Planter Training: The centrepiece of the program is a scalable, 5-phase training curriculum designed to take leaders from initial outreach to a self-sustaining, multiplying church.
- Module 1: Evangelism – Strategies for effectively engaging communities and sharing the gospel.
- Module 2: Discipleship – Foundational teaching to help new believers grow in the image of Christ.
- Module 3: Membership – Organizing new believers into healthy, functioning local church bodies.
- Module 4: Leadership – Identifying and equipping pastors and lay leaders with practical administrative and pastoral skills.
- Module 5: Multiplication – Training the church to reproduce itself by planting new daughter congregations.
- Mentoring and Coaching Programs for Pastors: To prevent burnout and ensure ongoing accountability, planters are paired with experienced, vetted coaches.
- Regular Check-ins: Monthly one-on-one or cohort-based meetings to review ministry progress and overcome hurdles.
- Pastoral Care: A safe space for pastors to receive personal encouragement, theological guidance, and emotional/spiritual support.
- Strategic Planning: Assisting planters in adapting the 5-module training to the unique socio-cultural realities of their specific neighborhoods.
- Discipleship Materials & Christian Literature: A resource hub that supplies planters with the foundational physical and digital tools needed for their congregations: Planters receive tangible tools to execute ministry effectively from day one.
- Discipleship Materials: Structured study guides for small groups.
- Gospel Tracts: Culturally relevant print tools for mass evangelism.
- Bibles: Scripture copies for new believers and searchers.
- Christian Literature: Leadership books and theology texts for pastoral growth.
Objective of the Program
The main objective of this project is to train Church planters (Ordinary believers) in Uganda in a 5 module practical holistic development training program for 18 months to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, conduct adult and children’s cells/home groups, plant new churches in communities, bring about spiritual transformation and create a legacy of peace in communities and nations.
Process of the Church Planting and Training program
(a) Mobilize and sharing the vision with national and local churches across all denominations. Share with the leadership what we offer, schedules, our obligations and commitment and help them understand their obligations and responsibilities.
(b) Work with grassroots partners to identify unreached people groups and recruit Church planters through the sending churches, with help of guidelines jointly produced by Churches and partners.
(c) Design and develop appropriate training, coaching, follow-up, visitation, management, reporting systems to measure success.
(d) Provide plat form for continuous education, resourcing, networking and multiplication in the initiative.