A sense of God working

What is a Church Planting Movement? A simple, concise definition of a Church Planting Movement (CPM) is a rapid and multiplicative increase of indigenous churches planting churches within a given people group or population segment.

Over the past two decades, many millions of new believers have entered Christ’s Kingdom through church planting movements. We've seen them in every part of the world.

The approach of pouring more and more resources into the harvest is actually contrary to what we see God doing in Church Planting Movements. In Church Planting Movements, the role of the missionary or outsider is heaviest at the beginning. Once the people group begins responding, it is vitally important for outsiders (i.e. missionaries) to become less and less dominant while the new believers themselves become the primary harvesters and leaders of the movement.