Programs
DCPI offers trainings for every stage of your church planting journey. All of our trainings fit into the DCPI Training System are designed to equip you with biblical principles that work anywhere in the world.
Church Planting Essentials
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.
House Church Planting
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.
Healthy Church Dynamics
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.
Mentoring 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.
NexGen Challenge
Churches Planting Churches
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.
Church Planting Movements
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.
Certified Trainer
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.
Training Request
Every new training is a chance to equip leaders and multiply churches around the world.
Use this form to report your upcoming church planting training so we can pray with you, celebrate what God is doing, and provide continued support for your team and participants.