We can make disciples by addition or by multiplication. If we make disciples by addition, we will never reach everyone, simply because addition can never keep up with the exponential growth of the world’s population.

In movements of multiplication, the goal is to keep multiplying groups of people so that the church is getting larger and smaller at the same time. In Acts 2, the Church in Jerusalem was over three thousand members strong, but those members stayed small by meeting from house to house.

Multiplication starts slowly, but it picks up steam quickly, so quickly that the unchurched population can be reached in a lifetime if every disciple multiplies more disciples.

HOW WILL WE DO IT?

ONE MISSION. MULTIPLE EXPRESSIONS.

Churches Planting Churches

As an existing local church multiplies disciples and leaders, sending out teams as missionaries to plant new churches is the ultimate goal. We want to equip our existing churches to raise up leaders, identify mission fields, build launch teams, and birth the next generation of new churches.

Nontraditional Churches

Often called microchurches, house churches, or disciple-making communities, these groups of disciples multiply organically by reaching neighborhoods and community groups and then raising up new leaders to do the same.

First-Generation Plants

While the ultimate goal is churches planting churches, multiplication often begins with a leader or group of disciples who feel called to plant a church in a specific community. We want to welcome, partner with, and resource these new planters and plants to not simply start a church, but to start a church that will plant other church-planting churches.

Replanting

Every year more than 4,000 churches close in the United States, many of them already having a building and presence in a community. Leading the people of churches that may otherwise close to instead focus on multiplying disciples in their community and then replant the church is another great opportunity before us.

Multicultural Plants

With more than 337 languages spoken, the United States hosts a world-reaching mission field within our own borders. Intentionally planting churches to reach these specific cultures meets an enormous need and has been the fastest-growing segment of the Missionary Church in recent years.

Training, coaching, and equipping these various expressions of multiplication requires generous donors who will share in making a small investment that will generate a huge return!

Our goal is to fulfill 1,000 "shares" of $25 per month from those across the country who will join us in supporting this vision of church multiplication to become reality. Meeting this goal will generate the funding needed to help support 40-50 new plants each year.

Whether you can give one share of $25 per month or four shares of $100 per month, no amount is too small! Churches are also challenged to consider how many shares they can give, too!

Ways to Give

Give a Donation

Give one or more monthly shares of $25 to church multiplication. Within five years our goal is to have 2,500 people giving monthly shares.

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Multiplication in Puerto Rico

A group of 8 leaders from the Missionary Church Caribbean Region traveled to Houston, TX last year for a training, unsure of what CMTC would be all about. But they had all they needed to get started – a vision to multiply churches across their island. The result of spending these days together being challenged, wrestling through the various exercises, and praying together was summed up simply by their regional director’s excitement, “They’re ready!”
Now two new churches in unreached communities of Puerto Rico are forming with several others in the early stages. Just two years ago there was no church multiplication happening there, but now there is the bubbling up of a multiplication movement! Regional Director Victor Lopez has a vision to continue raising up, training, and coaching leaders through the CMTC so that disciple-making communities that multiply to become churches will be strategically planted in each and every part of Puerto Rico.
Movement in Granger, WASHINGTON

“This has been so freeing,” Nereyda Mendez said during a recent CMTC training. “We don’t have to move to Washington and immediately start a church service. We just have to move to Washington and be missionaries to the community and multiply disciples. The church will come from that not from services!” She and her husband, Pastor Mario, had just sensed a call to move their family from California to the Granger community to plant a new church in the location where a longtime Missionary Church congregation had dissolved and the building now sits empty. Feeling the pressure of institutional church planting and its expectations of rapid growth in Sunday services, the Mendez family had assumed that the first steps would be putting together all the trappings of a public gathering and hoping that disciples would come from it. Through CMTC’s training and coaching, the plan is now to rebirth Parkside Church by multiplying disciples first, raising up leaders, and continuing to multiply disciples as they begin to gather for worship.
Growth in Kalispell, WASHINGTON

Dubbed the fastest growing “micropolitan” in the United States, Kalispell has seen an influx of more than 10,000 move to the small city in just the last five years. Despite this rapid growth, only two new churches have started during that same time. Mitch and Amber Lee, along with their ten children, feel a call to change that. After attending a CMTC training last year and being involved in CMTC coaching for nearly a year since then, the Lees have developed a clear plan to reach the city and all of Flathead County with the gospel by planting the first Missionary Church in the state of Montana. Following the CMTC’s training and coaching to multiply disciples first and then gather those new disciples together for worship, the Lees are already multiplying disciples and establishing a missional community. As this grows they will multiply to a second and then third group of disciples to then launch public worship next year.