Saturation Church Planting

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Saturation Church Planting

• Biblical Vision
• International Strategy

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Israels Calling Mission to the Nations

• Promised to Abram -- The LORD had said to Abram,
  Leave your country, your people and your
  fathers household and go to the land I will show
  you. I will make you into a great nation and I
  will bless you I will make your name great, and
  you will be a blessing. All peoples
  on earth will be blessed through you. Genesis
  121-3
• Envisioned by Isaiah -- Turn to me Me and be
  saved, all you ends of the earth. Isaiah 4522
• Nations will come to your light and kings to
  the brightness of your dawn. Isaiah 60 3

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Universal Scope of OT Mission

• all the earth shall be filled with the glory
  of the Lord. Numbers 1421
• for the earth shall be full of the knowledge
  of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
  Isaiah 119
• For the earth will be filled with the knowledge
  of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the
  seas. Habakkuk 214

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Gods Compassionate Heart and Comprehensive
Purpose

• The Lord is patient with you not wanting anyone
  to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
  But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief.
  Peter 38-9
• .there was a great multitude that no one could
  count from every nation, tribe, people and
  language, standing before the throne and in front
  of the Lamb.They cried out in a loud voice,
  Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the
  throne and to the Lamb. Revelation 79-10
• Never again will they hunger never again will
  they thirst. The sun will not beat on them, nor
  any scorching heat. Revelation 716

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Christs Mission Our Commission
Jesus Mission
The Message The Spirit of the Lord is on me
because he has anointed me to preach good news to
the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for
the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind,
to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of
the Lords favor. Luke 418-19
The Harvest My food is to do the will of Him
who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not
say, Four months more and then the harvest? I
tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields!
They are ripe for the harvest! (John 434)
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Christs Mission Our Commission
Our Co-mission
The Same Mission Peace be with you. As the
Father has sent me, so I send you. (John 2021)
The Same Scope Therefore, go and make
disciples of all nations. (Matthew 2818)
To Completion This Gospel of the Kingdom will
be preached in the whole world as a testimony to
all ethnae (people groups) and then the end
will come. (Matthew 2414)
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The Greatest Challenge to Completion

• Theological an interpretation of
  multi-culturalism and post-modernism leading to
  universalism. (A western Christian problem)
• Personal prayer urgency producing passion for
  the harvest
• Practical goals of the Body are not organized
  into comprehensive plans, isolated tactics not
  melded into coordinated strategy

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How Can the Whole Church Work Together in a
Common Strategy to Disciple the Nation?

• Its Simpler than you may think!)

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Vision and Goal, Tactics and Strategy

• Vision is a compelling word picture with the
  end in view.
• Examples
• "The evangelization of the Sikh community in
  Canada."
• "The mobilization of the Canadian church to
  pray intelligently for world missions."
• Bringing the gospel to a (particular)
  unreached people group in Pakistan."

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Vision and Goal, Tactics and Strategy

• Goals connect vision and reality. Measurable,
  time-sensitive. Tell us whether we have made
  progress towards the vision.
• Examples 10 people groups in 3 years, 50 JESUS
  film showings in 18 months, 1000 small groups in
  4 years.
• Critical to progresslike the blueprint of a
  house you are going to build. Once we have a
  blueprint - it will be pretty clear whether or
  not we've hit the mark.
• Until weve set a clear goal, rarely does
  anything significant happen.

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Vision and Goal, Tactics and Strategy

• When a goal is set - e.g. plant 10,000
  churches by 2015, form a youth church targeting
  gang members - we begin to wrestle with
  challenges we have never faced, requiring
• Strategy the comprehensive means of
  accomplishing the goal.
• Tactics the component elements of the
  comprehensive strategy.

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Saturation Church Planting

• DAWN is an acronym for Discipling a Whole
  Nation
• DAWN Vision To establish gatherings of believers
  within geographic, linguistic and cultural access
  of every person of every class, kind and
  condition of humanity, where Jesus Christ is
  incarnated in all His love, care, truth and
  power, and His message is proclaimed.

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Saturation Church Planting

• DAWN Goal 1 disciple-making community for every
  500 people in every ethnae and people group in
  the nation.
• DAWN Strategy To mobilize the whole church to
  disciple the whole nation through SCP.
• DAWN Tactics To engage denominations, schools,
  para-church missions, local churches, and lay
  people in setting individual goals which
  contribute directly to the national goal.

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A Process to Mobilize a Nation
1. Identify the potential leaders / watchmen 2.
Initial research and analysis harvest field
(nation) and harvest force (church) 3.
Develop network of intercessors 4. Hold initial
rally 5. Form national committee 6. Complete
in-depth research 7. Develop prophetic
message 8. Hold DAWN congress, set national
goals 9. Implement denominational programs 10.
Review of accomplishments in two years
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How has the DAWN strategy impacted other nations?

• Can we actually measure results?

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Philippines

• First DAWN project.
• Goals for 50,000 churches by AD 2000 set in 1975
• Current growth on target to achieve goals.

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Growth of the first DAWN ProjectThe Philippines
1974 - 2000
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Brazil

• Population 165,521,699
• 19,969,188 Evangelicals 13.49 of population
• Average Annual Growth Rate of 8.26

Goal 150,000 New Churches by 2010
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Venezuela

• Population 22,213,000
• 10,000 Churches
• 1,054,000 Attendees
• 5.34 Evangelicals
• 5 AAGR

Goal 20,000 New Churches by 2003
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Peru
Goal 50,000 Churches
By 2003 An average of 6 new churches everyday
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Zimbabwe
1992 DAWN Congress sets goals for 10,000 new
churches.

• By 1996
• over 3400 new churches
• 1,639,760 estimated
• new members

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Ukraine

• 16 church planter training sites.
• 303 church planters in training.
• 101,317 attending 3810 Evangelistic groups.
• 253 new churches.

Goal 50,000 new churches
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Romania

• 27 church planter training sites.
• 361 church planters in training.
• 1972 attending 211 Evangelistic groups.
• 145 new churches.

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India

• Seven of the States in India have SCP projects
  underway, with goals of starting 500,000 new
  churches in addition to the 200,000 which already
  exist.
• India represents about 15 of the worlds
  population, and 30 of the worlds unreached
  people groups and 50 of its unreached people.

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China

• 20 of the worlds population
• DAWN project started 1994 by FEBC
• Goal for 1 million new churches by AD 2000

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Malaysia

• No Indigenous Malay churches in 1990.
• In 1995 there were 55 known congregations in the
  country.
• Overall country goal is 4000 new churches.

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Egypt

• First Middle East nation to hold congress -
  November 1996
• Vision set
• for 10,000
• new churches

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England

• In 1992 at a DAWN congress 750 leaders from 32
  denominations committed to plant 20,000 new
  churches by the year 2000.
• At that time only two denominations had specific
  plans for church growth.
• In 1995 a second DAWN congress evaluated the
  three years of progress.

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Impact On England

• All major denominations have growth plans.
• The Church of England has stopped its 20 year
  decline.
• Five leaders are sharing the vision beyond the
  land.
• 1,600 new churches have been planted.

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English Findings

• Daughter churches are growing 12X faster than
  churches who are more than 5 years old.
• Mother churches are growing 3X faster than those
  not having planted a new church.
• 50 are new converts, 12 are renewed nominal
  believers not previously involved.
• Alpha program introduced by Anglicans had
  involved to date 80,000 non-believers and has
  produced an 80 conversion rate after 13 weeks.

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An Historic Commitment...
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CANADIAN CHURCH PLANTING CONGRESS '97 October
27-30, 1997 -- Bramalea, ON DECLARATION

• We, the delegates of the Canadian Church Planting
  Congress '97 - representing 39 denominations, 13
  mission organizations, and 4 seminaries - called
  together to address the urgent spiritual need in
  Canada, declare concerted prayer and evangelistic
  church planting to be the key to reaching our
  nation.
• WE ACKNOWLEDGE
• That without the raising up of new
  congregations there are still thousands of
  Canadians who will not have the opportunity to
  hear of the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
• That we have a personal and corporate
  responsibility to reach these people

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CANADIAN CHURCH PLANTING CONGRESS '97 October
27-30, 1997 -- Bramalea, ON DECLARATION

• (Cont...)
• That church planting is the key to discipling
  our nation calling its peoples to worship and
  serve our Lord Jesus Christ
• Therefore
• WE COMMIT
• To earnestly pray for the harvest field and the
  harvest force
• To the goal of planting 10,000 new churches by
  the year 2015
• To plant churches that are geographically
  accessible and culturally relevant to every
  Canadian
• To develop networks for support and
  accountability
• To work together as the whole body of Christ to
  accomplish the task of the gospel for every
  person and a church for every people

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Canada

• DAWN Goal
• As of 1997 10,000 new churches by 2015
• Raise average annual planting rate to 4.5
• Churches geographically accessible and culturally
  relevant to every Canadian

Currently - 30,000,000 population - 9,276
Evangelical churches - 1.4 Planting AAGR
(Population growth 1.7)
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How Can We Move Forward Together?

• Each can contribute strategically!

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Working Together to Multiply 10,000 New Cells of
Believers

• Every denomination - setting goals, casting
  vision, providing support and resources
• Every church - birthing new cells of believers
  (daughter churches)
• Every bible school seminary - raising up and
  training planters for the harvest
• Every para-church mission agency - planting
  churches
• Every lay-leader - a harvest field worker a
  member of the team