This is the intro for the site.

Welcome to ChurchPlantingMovements.com. I’m David Garrison. If you’re a church planter, pastor, or just someone wanting to learn the best practices in church planting from around the globe, you’ve come to the right place.

1.   What is a CPM?

A definition for Church Planting Movements (CPMs) that has held sway for more than a decade is: “a rapid multiplication of indigenous churches planting churches that sweeps through a people group or population se…

For more than 200 years Baptist church planting in this Indian state averaged one new church a year, but now the yearly total would be equal to an average of planting one new church a day.  Missionary work in this state dates back to the time of Willi…

Among the movements we have witnessed around the world in the latter half of the twentieth-century, none is more dynamic than the one that nearly escaped our attention in our own American backyard. For 20 years Protestant churches in Communist Cuba h…

A glance at the religious demographics of Africa attests to scores of untold church-planting movements. In 1900, the African continent’s Christian population stood at only 9 million adherents. By 2010, the number had risen to more than 470 mill…

This article is written in two parts, both of which are supported by a PowerPoint presentation with notes that can be downloaded here.
What do CPMs, Church Planting Movements, look like up close? What would we see if we went right down into the living…

This is the second in the two-part article “A Handy Guide to Healthy Churches.” The article is accompanied by a PowerPoint that can be downloaded here.
P-O-U-C-H
In the palm of the hand we drew the five letters P-O-U-C-H to remind us of the kinds of …

As early as September of 2000, formal reports reached International Mission Board, SBC leadership from at least three sources affirming that a significant number of Muslims were embracing Christianity in various parts of Jedidistan (pseudonym for a Mus…

Recently we had a meeting of CPM trainers from around the world. We were seeking to identify what God is doing in movements around the world. Our focus was on is really happening, not on theory or opinions. This is the first of several summaries. The following document (word and pdf format) shows the groups [...]

After several years as a CPM trainer in South Asia, I found myself back in the buckle of the Bible Belt near Shelby, North Carolina where people also needed the gospel. As I sought to implement CPM Training for Trainers (T4T) principles that had been…