Lessons From Those Who Have Been There
DCPI has two convictions about the Church Planting Essentials training:
1st Conviction – The 12 Biblical Principles Of Church Planting are essential for the development and birth of a healthy new church. Every session in the training will support and apply one or more of the Biblical principles.
2nd Conviction – Knowledge without wisdom is insufficient and learning without application is incomplete. Therefore, in order to receive the best out of the Church Planting Essentials training each participant is required to prepare Vision-Plan-Timeline (VPT). The VPT is designed to help you begin applying what you are learning in the training and to move you further along in the vision and planting of new churches.
Church Planting Essentials’ interactive and comprehensive instruction is designed to enable prospective planters to avoid church planting “land mines”, plan prayerfully, as well as discern and pursue their vision effectively.
Sessions equip you to:
Organize, refine and pinpoint your vision, purpose, strategies and timeline early, so that you have a clear plan for the future.
Recognize and avoid land mines such as launching too soon, choosing the wrong facility, or exhausting your launch team.
Use the 12 Biblical principles for church planting in everything you do.
Quotes:
“The best part was the practicality of the training. Especially the four phases of planting a church. I already had the passion but not the “know how.”
-Thomas Loman
“DCPI’s program is the most cross-cultural and comprehensive approach I’ve found.”
-Chris McKinney
“Church Planning Essentials is a powerful and practical tool for principle-centered church planting-refreshing and dynamic!”
-Mike Ruhl
Harnessing the Power of the The Mother-Daughter Relationship
Even a small church can make a huge impact for the kingdom. Bring new life to your congregation through practical, proven principles of Daughter Church Planting.
Sessions equip you to:
Answer fears and objections to church planting.
Determine the involvement of the mother church.
Develop a timeline for the new church.
Find resources needed to fund the daughter church.
Overcome common barriers in the new work.
Recruit a church planter and leadership.
Create your own personalized V.I.P. (Vision-Involvement-Plan).
Quotes:
“The best part was the practicality of the training. Especially the four phases of planting a church. I already had the passion but not the “know how.”
-Thomas Loman
“DCPI’s program is the most cross-cultural and comprehensive approach I’ve found.”
-Chris McKinney
“Church Planning Essentials is a powerful and practical tool for principle-centered church planting-refreshing and dynamic!”
-Mike Ruhl
Mentoring Church Planters
Mentors help keep church planters on task and their vision in focus. Whether a planter needs help staying on course, avoiding church planting “land mines” or encouragement to take a much needed prayer retreat, a mentor can help.
Three full days are spent in interactive, comprehensive training designed to enable mentors to coach, shepherd and supervise church planters.
Sessions equip you to:
Discover what church planters need, don’t need and don’t know they need
Go inside the heart of a church planter
Understand the four phases of church planting
Know the characteristics of a “model mentor”
Prepare for the seasons of mentoring
Develop skills and strategies for effective mentoring
Quotes:
“When it comes to the equipping of the saints, DCPI raises the bar of excellence.” -Sam Douglass
Church Planting Movement
A Church Planting Movement is a fast-growing movement of churches planting churches that takes place within a people group or a segment of a population. The churches are growing rapidly, but not exponentially, at least over the long term. These churches are led by leaders who are home-grown, national, aboriginal, indigenous.
Sessions equip you to:
The 13 Biblical Principles of church planting movements.
Complete a Practical Project that focuses on each organizations church planting vision, organizational structure, and a timeline to begin moving forward.
The Calling & Characteristics Of A Church Planting Movement Leader.
How to receive a Vision from God, Communicate it to others, and Recruit leaders to be a part of their team.
Quotes:
“The best part was the practicality of the training. Especially the four phases of planting a church. I already had the passion but not the “know how.”
-Thomas Loman
“DCPI’s program is the most cross-cultural and comprehensive approach I’ve found.”
-Chris McKinney
“Church Planning Essentials is a powerful and practical tool for principle-centered church planting-refreshing and dynamic!”
-Mike Ruhl
New Church Dynamics
Focuses on the unique challenges and opportunities encountered during the first few years of a church plant. NCD equips leaders to optimize their effectiveness during the beginning stages of church growth for multiplication and church health
Sessions equip you to:
- Ministry skills for 6 key phases of church growth
- How does the size of a church impact ministry?
Preparing to reproduce.
- Dealing with discouragement, difficult people and time demands.
- Strategic systems to implement for healthy church development.
- Regular evalution of your church’s current ministry.Why and how?
Church Planting Discipleship
This training takes every attendee to understand the basics of how to explain the Gospel and gather believers through the different “fields” of church planting. In Matthew 28:18-20 Jesus calls us to make disciples. The CPD- seminar will help you make disciples, that make disciples that fulfill the Great Commission.
Sessions equip you to:
What is God ́s desire and His final goal?
Identifying four kinds of harvest fields.
Spreading Gospel seeds through the two important stories.
Key strategies for cultivating growing seeds.
Nine practices for gathering believers and appointing leaders.
Insuring continual productivity through leader multiplication.
Inspiring the Next Generation
The purpose of the NexGen Challenge training is to inspire next generation leaders to embrace church planting to reach the world for Christ. This material was designed to challenge teenagers and young adults to engage in the Great Commission. The ultimate goal is to help them understand their importance to pass on their faith to future generations. At the end of this training, each participant will be challenged to get involved with what God is doing.
Sessions equip you to:
10 Biblical Principles of Next Generation Leaders
Why Church Planting is Vital
The Impact of Good Choices
Ministry Landmines Next Generation Leaders must avoid
The Importance of Mentoring
Myths and Truths about the Next Generation
Equipping future DCPI-Trainers
Sessions equip you to:
How to do an effective Training
Landmines in Training
Organisational Overview of DCPI
How we will fulfill the vision
Your roadmap as a DCPI Trainer
Participation requires:
Completion of (at least) one DCPI Training
Practical experience in church planting
Good teaching skills
A vision to equip church planters
Completion of (at least) one DCPI Training
Practical experience in church planting
Good teaching skills
A vision to equip church planters