Fostering a Movement of Conversion Growth and Life Transformation in San Diego County through Church Multiplication

This dissertation project was designed to research, discover, and make application of:

1) the principles, practices, and best habits that release conversion growth;

2) the principles, practices, and best habits that release life transformation; and

3) the principles, practices, and best habits that foster a multiplication movement of churches that are growing by conversions and transformed lives, as well as other new churches.

The ten steps discovered that lead to conversion growth, life transformation, and church multiplication are:
Step #1: Praying
Step #2: Going for the Purpose of Knowing
Step #3: Knowing for the Purpose of Showing
Step #4: Showing for the Purpose of Sowing
Step #5: Sowing for the Purpose of Growing
Step #6: Growing for the Purpose of Flowing
Step #7: Teaming Up for Evangelism and Life Transformation
Step #8: Releasing Gifts and Ministry Care
Step #9: Leadership and Leadership Identification
Step #10: Leadership Multiplication

Training and Developing Workers for Church Multiplication

This project was also designed to research, discover, and make application of the principles and best approaches to church planter training, development, mentoring, and coaching, resulting in planters successfully planting churches that grow by conversions, transformed lives, and the planting of additional new churches.

The result of that research is Harvest Ministries of Church Multiplication (HMCM). HMCM is a regional, congregation-based learning and training approach that exists to provide new church planters, where they live, with biblically sound, theological training for their work, as well as specialized training, mentoring, and coaching in the principles and best practices of church planting, church multiplication, conversion growth, and life transformation.

The Harvest Ministries of Church Multiplication utilize:
1. On-the-job learning and mentoring by the planter's pastor
2. Classroom learning in theology, missions, evangelism, spiritual development, and leadership
3. Intensive seminars in evangelism, church planting, church multiplication movements, life transformation, and ministry leadership taught by experienced and successful ministry practitioners
4. Participation by the planter in a peer collegial learning group
5. Independent studies in certain areas of concentration
6. Church planting leadership support by a church planting 'coach'