DCPI in Rwanda!

Last week we held our first Dynamic Church Planting International training in Rwanda. We had 21 Pastors that completed the Church Planting Essentials track and they were so excited about the training.   DCPI's vision is to equip church planters to plant 5 million dynamic churches all over the world.  The head pastor of the denomination said that in over 20 years of planting churches, he has never learned the things he learned last week as a result of the training.

"We as a group of churches have been doing things one way for so long and now we know that we need to change our thinking and our actions in church planting because of this DCPI training."
                                                                                                         - Bishop Enoch Dusingizimana

Matt and Bishop Enoch, head of Community of Christian Churches of Africa

This group of churches (Community of Christian Churches of Africa) that first contacted the DCPI office in Oceanside, California has over 300 churches in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo - and they all want church planting training. These churches are a Baptist denomination focused on fulfilling the Great Commission. Praise God!

As a result of the training, they want to plant at least 50 new churches in the next 2 years!

Pastor Jean De Dieu who first contacted us at DCPI.
I had the opportunity to preach at his church 2 weeks ago. 

Pastors here in East Africa have very little access to training and so we are so thankful to all of our supporters and churches who provide financially for us to be here.

The first week of May I will be doing a Pastors training for over 30 pastors with some friends with Global Training Network who will be in country for the week.

One of the aspects of the Church Planting Essentials training is having each participant do a VPT (Vision, Plan, Timeline) and then present it at the end of the training. Pastor Jean De Dieu (pictured right) planted a church 10 months ago and he wants to plant another church a few kilometers from his church plant. This new church will be located between two Mosques. Many pastors would shy away from an area like this because of their fear of Muslims - but not Pastor Jean de Dieu, he believes that Christ died for everybody and so everybody deserves to be invited to trust Christ. Islam in Rwanda is on the rise. In 1995, the Muslim population was 0.2% and now it is at 5%. Pastor Jean de Dieu wants to reach the people of this neighborhood with the hope of Christ!

The church in Rwanda is growing and strong. There are so many pastors I speak with everyday that are sensing that revival is coming. There are so many challenges that churches face here. Please continue to pray for churches and pastors to lead people to Christ and help people experience the joy of following Jesus.

Grace and Peace

Matt


...more pictures of the training

Pastors from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Pastors working together on building a Discipleship Process

Pastors sharing their vision for church planting with each other