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PLANTING TRAININGS

For church planters and their teams

This foundational DCPI training teaches trainees how to plant a church. Using the pattern of a baby being formed in 9 months of pregnancy, students learn how to start churches from conception to birth and beyond. They plan culturally relevant outreach, develop a Process of Discipleship and learn about how to avoid difficulties in planting.

During 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.

Available in 44 languages. Also available in Orality storytelling format for oral cultures.

This training equips you to...

Organize, refine and pinpoint your vision, purpose, strategies and timeline early, so that you have a clear plan for the future.

Use the 12 Biblical principles for church planting in everything you do.

Recognize and avoid land mines such as launching too soon, choosing the wrong facility, or exhausting your launch team.

This track is also known as Church Planting Discipleship (CPD)

For those preparing to plant a micro-church

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. This training will help you make disciples, that make disciples, that fulfill the Great Commission.

By far our most interactive track, this track empowers participants with ample opportunities to practice what they are learning before applying what they learn in a real-life situation. In contrast to other DCPI training tracks, this track can often be spread out over a period of several months, allowing participants extra preparation time before starting their church.

Available in 5 languages.

This training equips you to...

Identify four kinds of harvest fields.

Spread Gospel seeds through the two important stories.

Understand God ́s desire and His final goal

Use the nine practices for gathering believers and appointing leaders.

Implement key strategies for cultivating growing seeds.

THRIVING TRAININGS

For churches looking to improve systems, get healthy, and prepare to multiply

Our bodies have different systems: cardiovascular, nervous, respiratory and etc. They are independent, but if any one of them fails, the whole body fails. It is the same in the body of Christ. Eight systems in the body of Christ have been studied. We share what to do to develop the systems required to have a healthy body at any age and stage of life.

Available in 5 languages.

This training equips you to...

Implement strategic systems for healthy church development.

Deal with discouragement, difficult people and time demands.

Prepare to reproduce.

Evaluate your church regularly to assess the why and how of effective ministry

Use different ministry skills for 6 key phases of church growth

Recognize how the size of a church impacts ministry

For mentors of 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 “landmines” 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.

Available in 7 languages.

This training equips you to...

Discover what church planters need, don’t need and don’t know they need

Look 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

CULTIVATING TRAININGS

For next-generation leaders

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.

Available in 7 languages.

This training equips you to understand...

10 Biblical Principles of Next Generation Leaders

The Impact of Good Choices

Why Church Planting is Vital

The Importance of Mentoring

Ministry Landmines Next Generation Leaders must avoid

For Churches Considering/Preparing to Plant a Daughter Church

Healthy churches are the largest untapped resource for planting more healthy churches. This training is about harnessing the power of the mother-daughter relationship by equipping healthy churches to multiply. 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.

Available in 10 languages.

This training equips you to...

Determine the involvement of the mother church.

Answer fears and objections to church planting.

Develop a timeline for the new church.

Overcome common barriers in the new work.

Ensure continual productivity through leader multiplication.

Recruit a church planter and leadership.

Find resources needed to fund the daughter church.

Create your own personalized V.I.P. (Vision-Involvement-Plan).

MULTIPLYING TRAININGS

For church planting movement leaders

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.

Available in 7 languages.

This training equips you to understand...

The 13 Biblical Principles of church planting movements.

How to receive a Vision from God, Communicate it to others, and Recruit leaders to be a part of their team.

The Calling & Characteristics Of A Church Planting Movement Leader.

The skills and strategies for accelerating a church planting movement

Complete a Practical Project that focuses on each organizations church planting vision, organizational structure, and a timeline to begin moving forward.

For future DCPI Trainers

We’re so happy that you want to train others! It’s natural to want to share everything you’ve learned from DCPI because of how absolutely life-changing these principles are. Certified Trainers (CTs) are at the core of how we multiply church planters worldwide.
All of our Certified Trainers are men and women who have gone through our training, planted a church, and are ready to help others get trained to plant churches.

How it Works

After completing at least one track of DCPI training and participating in a church plant, you may sign up to attend a Certified Trainer course. The CT course requires around
5-6 hours of instruction in how to train and how to set up a training event. These trainings are regularly available via webinar. Please be sure to attend all sessions. There aren’t make-ups in CT trainings.

Next, a DCPI Master Trainer (MT) will interview you to get to know you. You will have an opportunity to demonstrate your training ability by training a part of 12 Biblical principles. Then, you will make a presentation to a small group of DCPI leaders that answers what is your vision to train others. You will have to sign that you agree with DCPI’s theology, and then you will be ready to start scheduling your own trainings! We can’t wait to help you reach further by becoming a Certified Trainer!

ABOUT DCPI

Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1994 with the vision of training leaders in every country of the world to plant dynamic churches to reach the world for Jesus. We offer trainings both live and online, 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!