Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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Twenty Five Years of Urban Church Planting Among the Poor: A Report 6 c) 50 Small “House” Churches are active (50/89 CPs or 56%, 4 unknown status) d) 31 Community churches are active (31/38 CPs or 82%, 15 unknown status) B. Training 1. More than 3,600 leaders trained through four national conferences: a) The Jericho Conference (Los Angeles, 1996). World Impact’s first Church Planting conference trained some 200 missionaries and urban leaders in the foundations of urban church planting.

b) The Crowns of Beauty Conferences I(1999), II (2001), and III (2004) in Los Angeles brought together over 3,200 urban church leaders from more than thirty denominations in order to launch new churches and church plant movements among the poor. The Timothy Conference (Wichita, 2004) brought together some 200 urban church leaders to challenge them to pursue Church Planting in their own communities. More than 300 leaders and some 80 church plant teams trained through 15 national and regional church plant schools. More than 2,000 Urban Church Leaders trained in church planting through the TUMI satellite network: a) Over 200 urban church leaders have taken the eight-week Vision for Mission: Nurturing an Apostolic Heart Foundations course on the heart of a church planter. Over 1,600 urban leaders have taken the eight-week Capstone Course on Church Planting ( Module 12: Focus on Reproduction ). Over 200 urban church leaders have taken the eight-week Winning the World Foundations course on Church Plant Movements. c) b) c)

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Missional Partnerships 1.

World Impact has partnered with more than 30 denominations, associations, and movements to plant churches. a) These denominations include the Christian Missionary and

Alliance, the Reformed Church in America, Converge, Evangelical Free Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and many others (see Appendix 6).