ABOUT DCPI

Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1994 in the USA with the vision of training leaders in every country of the world to plant dynamic churches to reach the world for Jesus. In 2023, we officially founded the DCPI Europe non-profit to serve Europe more effectively.

We offer all of our trainings free of charge, so that hundreds of thousands of men and women called by God can take the Gospel to their tribes, tongues, and nations. We offer church planter trainings built upon biblical principles and actionable applications, so DCPI church planters are confident and equipped and their churches are effective and healthy.

In 2021, we celebrated 1 MILLION churches!

Meet the DCPI Europe Team

DCPI Europe Core Team

Björn Lutke

DCPI World Zone Leader, Europe & Senior Master Trainer

Björn is married to Brita. As the World Zone Leader for Europe he networks and coordinates to provide effective church planting training for thousands of leaders throughout the region. Björn is the apostolic leader of EPP church, based in Marseille, France, a church with 4 campuses and 6 church planting initiatives in France, Austria and the Caribbean. As a coach for leaders and churches, Björn is passionate about networking. He is the leader of the BFP International Network, with churches related to the BFP (German Pentecostals) in several nations. Björn is also the founder of Crossing Waves, a network of churches in Europe, North Africa, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean.

Brita Lütke

Director of Trainer Care

Brita is married to Björn. Brita is leading together with Björn the EPP church, based in Marseille, France, a church with 4 campuses and 6 church planting initiatives in France, Austria and the Caribbean. Together they founded Crossing Waves, a network of churches in Europe, North Africa, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. As a trained therapist and coach, Brita is passionate about helping leaders in ministry and the Body of Christ live a holistic life with the Lord.

Stephany West

Director of Coordination, Europe

Stephany is married to Andreas. She serves as the Director of Coordination in DCPI Europe. Stephany is originally from the United States, and she relocated from USA to serve as a missionary on the European team in August, 2018. Stephany serves on the leadership team at her local church in Trostberg, Germany. She is passionate about seeing missionaries, pastors, church planters, and their teams equipped to plant churches that will plant churches that will evangelize, disciple, and multiply to see the Kingdom of God expanded throughout Europe and around the world.

Irmi Tomaschek

Director of Prayer, Europe

Irmi is responsible for building a prayer network to provide a strong spiritual foundation for church planting in Europe. She and Robert, her late spouse and our former World Zone Leader, planted Kirche 365 and the 15M.Network of churches. The church now has 4 campuses and 3 church planting startups in Bavaria, Germany. Irmi (and Robert) have two grown children.

Theo Ehemann

Regional Director, DACH/German Speaking & Senior Master Trainer

Theo is married to Arlene. They started the Netzwerk43 in German back in 1996. Together with a team they lead the different ministries of Netzwerk43. Theo has a passion for building the church and seeing lives changed. As regional director he works together with trainers, churches, and partners in the German speaking part of Europe to see leaders equipped to plant new churches.

Luc Farve

Regional Director, France/French Speaking & Senior Master Trainer

Luc is married to Rachel. He is the main leader of VIE Church and pastor of the Ambilly location. He has started the VIE Academy focused helping people to become aware of their calling and being equipped to serve God wherever they are. They have two children. As regional director he works together with trainers, churches, and partners in the French speaking part of Europe to see leaders equipped to plant new churches.

Laura Labråten

NexGen Team Leader, Europe & Senior Master Trainer

Laura serves as a team leader of DCPI NexGen in Europe as well as a Senior Master Trainer. Her biggest passion is to train and inspire, equip and mobilize the next generation of leaders to embrace church planting and reach the world for Christ. She and her husband Øivind, serve as local pastors for the church Agape Bibelkirke in Rakkestad, Norway. They are in the process of planting a daughter campus.

Øivind Labråten

Regional Coordinator, Nordic + Baltic Region &

Øivind is married to Laura. They serve as local pastors for the church Agape Bibelkirke in Rakkestad, Norway. They are in the process of planting a daughter campus. As regional director and senior master trainer he works together with trainers, churches, and partners in the Nordic and Baltic region of Europe to see leaders equipped to plant new churches.

Ant Lee

Regional Coordinator, UK + Ireland Region & Master Trainer

Ant is married to Sarah. They are pastoring Vibe Church in High Wycombe, England. Ant serves as part a number of leadership roles both locally and nationally. As regional coordinator and master trainer he works together with trainers, churches, and partners in the United Kingdom and Ireland to see leaders equipped to plant new churches.

Bill Schwartz

Regional Coordinator, BeNeLux Region & Master Trainer

Bill is married to Gretchen Schwartz and together they have broad ministry experience as youth pastors, senior pastors, missionary church planters, and Bible school instructors and directors. As regional coordinator and master trainer he works together with trainers, churches, and partners in Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg to see leaders equipped to plant new churches.

Daniele Ventura

Regional Coordinator, Adriatic Region & Master Trainer

Daniele is married with three children and lives in Lugano, Switzerland. After finishing his studies in accountancy and theology, he started a project together with his wife to found the Rehoboth Ministry with the first church, and over the years has been able to start other churches in Italy. As regional coordinator and master trainer he works together with trainers, churches, and partners in the Adriatic region to see leaders equipped to plan churches.

Joachim Fontaine

Finance Coordinator & Master Trainer & Academy Coach

Pastor & Coach, Joachim and his wife are responsible for establishing a campus of the EPP church in Cagnes sur Mer (French Riviera, France). Joachim is also part of the church's global leadership team, is the visionary leader of ExponenCiel International and involved in the Crossing Waves and DCPI networks where he trains, coaches, mentors, and supports the development of leaders and churches. His passion is to accompany individuals and churches to flourish, be equipped, and be sent out to shine, reflect the glory and power of God, and live a new dynamic of multiplication and influence to impact the world with Jesus.

DCPI Europe Office Team

Philip Dongus

Public Relations and Media Coordinator

Philip works for both DCPI as public relations and media coordinator as well as for Church 365 (Kirche 365) in Bavaria, Germany. He is the pastoral trainee at the Mühldorf campus and its church plant in Eggenfelden. As public relations and media coordinator he helps share through story, graphic, and social media what God is doing in and through DCPI in Europe.

Ana Osuna

Social Media & Content Coordinator

Caro Auer

Office Volunteer

Caro works for a few hours a week for the DCPI office and also for her local church (Church 365) in Bavaria, Germany. As an office volunteer, she supports the team wherever needed, especially in graphics and translation.

DCPI Europe Senior Master & Master Trainer Team

Yngvar Aarseth

Master Trainer

Fiodor Baraniuk

Master Trainer

Octavio Bermeo

Master Trainer

Pascal Bonnaz

Master Trainer

Patrick Boudehent

Master Trainer

Philippe Boulanger

Master Trainer

Brittany Ehemann

Master Trainer

Jürgen Eisen

Master Trainer

Timo Heimlich

Master Trainer

Juhani Ikka

Master Trainer

Tobias Kuhn

Master Trainer

Asien Kurniadi

Master Trainer

Thomas Lahme

Senior Master Trainer

Alan Morton

Master Trainer

Claire Morton

Master Trainer

Jean-Christof Nadon

Master Trainer

Joseph Nelson

Senior Master Trainer

Timm Oelkers

Master Trainer

Yomi Olowoyo

Master Trainer

Natalie Persson

Master Trainer

Greg Reyes

Master Trainer

Darja Reichör

Master Trainer

Gerhard Röttger

Master Trainer

Peter Samir

Master Trainer

Tapio Sätilä

Master Trainer

Iris Schültzke

Master Trainer

Jörg Schültzke

Master Trainer

Vinoth Selva

Master Trainer

Blaise Thomi

Master Trainer

Edith Thomi

Master Trainer

Thomas Voss

Master Trainer

Monika Wagner

Master Trainer

Sami Westerholm

Master Trainer

Robert Tomaschek was the European World Zone Leader for DCPI starting in 2014. He was also the European Director of Church development for Rhema International and was on the board of church planting of the BFP – the German Pentecostal denomination. He is the Founding Pastor of the „Christliche Freikirche“ (Independent Christian Church), which he started in 2002 with his wife Irmi. The church is now called Kirche 365 and has continued to grow and has become a multisite church, which Robert built a network around to reach rural areas. Beside his ministry in the church, since 2002 he was working as a consultant for different international companies like Mercedes Benz, Bayer etc. He was the CEO of IKOP(Institute for creative organizational development). The focus of his preaching and teaching ministry was to inspire people to live their full potential and to bring people into a deeper relationship with God, where a blessed life is possible.

Remembering Robert Tomaschek

Dear friends,

We have the sad news to bring you that our friend and World Zone Leader, Robert Tomaschek went to glory in heaven on July 5, 2023. We are so grateful for the man of God Robert was, grateful for the legacy he has left, and grateful for the time that could be spent with him. Our hearts are split between the joy of heaven for Robert and the sorrow we feel because we have lost a great friend among us. Some of you have already seen our post on social media and have posted such kind, encouraging words and shared memories with Robert. Thank you! It brings us joy to see how many lives have been touched by Robert.

Many of you have been trained personally by him over the years in a DCPI training. Others have been trained by those that have been equipped because of Robert’s influence. His heart burned with passion, and desire to see pastors and leaders planting the churches God gave them a vision for and walking in their God given calling. Let’s praise the Lord for the man Robert was and the legacy he left for us. Let us continue to pray for Irmi, his wife, and the family so that they experience the Spirit giving Shalom and council in times of sorrow.

Some may be aware that Robert was in the middle of a health battle, and we are grateful for those that have been praying for Robert and the family. At the beginning of May, Robert made the decision that he needed to focus more fully on his health. With that decision he appointed Björn Lütke, who was already our Director of Training in Europe, to take over representing DCPI Europe as the Interim World Zone Leader for the coming year. With Robert’s graduation to heaven, Björn will continue as beforehand. Robert trusted Björn and asked and encouraged all of us to stand with Björn in continuing the work, while he took a step back. Now we desire to stand together unified in pursuing the vision and dream we have for equipping leaders to see Europe re-evangelized for Christ through the planting of new churches.

Philippians 1:3-6 “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”

Let’s take together the flame of passion for DCPI that Robert passes on to all of us!

Until All of Europe Knows Jesus,

Björn, Stephany & the entire DCPI Europe Team

About DCPI

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to train leaders to plant dynamic churches. We equip those leaders with time-tested, Biblically-based training curriculum, so that they plant healthy churches that reproduce and plant more healthy churches.

Our research shows that each leader trained plants an average of 2.55 churches, and each church leads an average of 40 people to Christ.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to equip leaders to plant five million churches to reach the world for Christ. Our organization, as a whole, has a vision for five million churches worldwide. As of January 2022, we have trained leaders to plant over one million churches! We are now focusing on the Five Million Church Vision with excitement and determination.

God has also given us a vision to introduce our training to every country of the world. We have just over 20 countries left, and we know God will do it. 

OUR RESEARCH

We keep a close eye on our trainees to make sure that our training is, and continues to be, maximally effective.

Our research shows that every DCPI-trained church planter starts 2.55 churches within the first five years after their DCPI training.

Their churches lead, on average, 40 people to Christ.

They are healthy, reproductive, Gospel-sharing, Great-Commission-fulfilling churches.

The DCPI Story

1992: Founder, Paul Becker, received a vision from the Lord to found an organization to train church planters, using his experience in church planting.

1994: Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI) was founded.

1995: God gave DCPI the audacious vision of training leaders to plant ONE THOUSAND churches. DCPI expanded over the years to multiple countries and multiple languages, with a vision of 20,000 churches then 1 million churches and reaching to every country of the world.

Early 2000s: DCPI expanded its model to make every training free of charge and to certify trainers, so that we could continue training pastors in places we would never go and in languages we will never speak.

2009: God knocked down an old oak tree that had been significant to our founder Paul Becker, and He used this to tell Paul that the One Million Church Vision was too small. God was calling DCPI to equip men and women of God to plant FIVE MILLION CHURCHES. In obedience, the DCPI team believed God, and we have been pursuing His vision enthusiastically to this day!

2021: God fulfilled the 1 million church vision when DCPI trained the leader who will plant the 1 millionth church!

2022: DCPI Founder Paul Becker died during the exact week that DCPI’s global leaders gathered for a Global Vision Summit. God showed DCPI leaders the way forward and reminded them that the 5 Million Church Vision is God’s vision!

2023: We are on track to have a record training number- the highest number of leaders trained in our history this year! We also officially founded the non-profit DCPI Europe in France to better serve Europe.

Our DNA

  • Quality over Quantity

    We believe that multiplying qualified reproductive trainers and leaders is more essential than training a crowd.

  • Give and it Will be Given

    We believe in a “Give and it shall be given” approach to personal support and national funding.

  • Accountability

    We believe that if you are not reporting, you are not a DCPI trainer or leader.

  • Practical Application

    We believe that a written and verbal project makes the training come to life, and must be done by every student, in every training even.

  • Cooperation

    We believe in working with all leaders who are Bible-teaching and Christ-centered.

  • Envisioning

    We believe in completing a God-given vision and expanding the church planting visions of others.

  • Indigenous Leadership

    We believe it is crucial to empower indigenous leaders.

  • Kingdom Focus

    We believe in focusing on the growth of God’s Kingdom worldwide through church planting, evangelism and discipleship.

  • Leader of Leaders

    We look for, work through, and develop apostolic style leaders, who can significantly influence entire regions and the whole world for Christ.

  • Team Teaching

    We believe in a team approach to provide high quality church planting training.

OVER 1,000,000 CHURCHES AND GROWING

Our vision is to see a healthy church in every community of the world. We believe that means the world will need about 5,000,000 churches planted. To do this, the world needs 1.6 million equipped, empowered church planters.
Are you ready to be equipped to succeed at this awesome thing God is calling you to do?

1,334,193 churches planted...so far

DCPI STATEMENT OF FAITH

The Doctrinal Statement of Faith is to be used as the official doctrinal position of Dynamic Church Planting International, and its contents are to be taught and agreed upon by all new staff as a prerequisite for staff membership. The International Office will be responsible for seeing that every staff member continues to be in conformity to this Statement of Faith.

The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God’s infallible written Word, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely, verbal plenary and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that it was written without error in the original manuscripts. It is the inerrant, supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.

We accept those large areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true Christians. Because of the specialized calling of our ministry, we desire to allow for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters, provided that any interpretation is based upon the Bible alone, and that no such interpretation shall become an issue which hinders the ministry to which God has called us.

We explicitly affirm our belief in basic Bible teachings as follows:

There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – each of whom equally shares all the attributes of deity and the characteristics of personality. Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:18; John 1:1-3,18; Acts 5:3,4

Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect deity and true humanity united in one person forever. John 1:1,14; Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:30-37; Colossians 2:9; Philippians 2:6-11

He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone. I John 3:5; I Peter 3:18; John 10:17-18; II Corinthians 5:21; I John 4:10; Romans 3:24-26

He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He had lived and died. I Corinthians 15:4,14; Luke 24:36-43; John 20:24-29

He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own. Acts 1:9-11; Ephesians 1:20; I Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 7:24,25; I John 2: 1-2

Man was originally created in the image of God. He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated from his Creator. That brought all mankind under divine condemnation. Genesis1:26-27;2:15-17; 3:1-24: Romans 5:12-21; I Corinthians 15:21-22

Man’s nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please God. Every man is in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit. Romans 3:9-20; Ephesians 2:1-7; Mark 7:20-23; John 3:1-21; Titus 3:5-7

The salvation of man is wholly a work of God’s free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works of goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight. Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans3:21-26;9:30-33; Galatians 3:11-14,22-24

It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written Word. I Thessalonians 1:5; John 1:12; I John 5:9-13; Romans 8:14-17

The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power, control and gifts are appropriated in the believer’s life by faith. John 3:5-8; 16:7-15; Titus 3:5; Romans 8:2-4,9; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; I Corinthians 6:19; Galatians 3:2-3

Every believer is called to live in the power of the indwelling Spirit so that he will not fulfill the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God. Galatians 5:16-25; Ephesians 5:18

Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith. Colossians 1:18; Ephesians1:22-23;5:23-32; I Thessalonians 4:13-18

God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement. Hebrews 10:23-25; Acts 2:42; 20:7; I Corinthians 12:20-28; 16:1-2; Ephesians 4: 11-16, I Timothy 4:13; II Timothy 3:16; 4:2

At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing. II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23-24; Luke 23:39-43; I Corinthians 15:12-58; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I John 3:2; Philippians 3:21

At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting judgment and condemnation. Luke 16:19-31; John 5:23-29; Revelation 20:10-15; Matthew 13:40-43

Jesus Christ will come again to the earth – personally, visibly, and bodily – to consummate history and the eternal plan of God. Acts 1:9-11; 3:19-21; Revelation 19:1-22; 21

The Lord Jesus commanded all believers to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfillment of the Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.” Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 24:46-49; Acts 1:7-8; Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 2:19-20; Philippians 3:7-21

“DCPI has captured the absolute urgency of planting churches and has a powerful, proven strategy. They focus on the mobilization of nationals, by far the best of all methods. I’ve seen the results and heartily endorse the work of DCPI.”

-Paul Eshelman,
Jesus Film

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ABOUT DCPI

Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1994 in the USA with the vision of training leaders in every country of the world to plant dynamic churches to reach the world for Jesus. In 2023, we officially founded the DCPI Europe non-profit to serve Europe more effectively. We offer all of our trainings free of charge, so that hundreds of thousands of men and women called by God can take the Gospel to their tribes, tongues, and nations. We offer 8 tracks of training built upon biblical principles and actionable applications, so DCPI churches are effective and healthy. In 2021, we celebrated 1 MILLION churches!

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