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What is the DCPI Pitch Deck? At DCPI Central, in the United States, we have been working at organizing DCPI training into an entire system, so that our partners who use our training within their movements can be even more effective. In order to communicate the benefits of the New DCPI System, we have put...
Hello DCPI Leaders! We will be changing the name of our training track, New Church Dynamics (NCD), to Healthy Church Dynamics (HCD)! We have been working quickly to get our materials renamed and ready for you to download. See below for details. Background: One of the 4 Yearly Goals for DCPI we’ve been communicating is “Repositioning our...
Movement Leader, We want to help you multiply your movement using the DCPI System! Whether you’re a seasoned movement leader or just starting out on your church planting journey, this blog will walk you through how to customize DCPI training to fit your movement and propel your vision forward. Let’s start with your vision. Picture...
What is the DCPI System? We have pulled all of the DCPI training tracks together into a format that makes these trainings even more effective for church planters and movement leaders. It used to be that DCPI trainees could select one track of our training, like a menu, and only attend that training. While they...
DCPI IMPACT STORIES
In Indonesia, a man named “Jack” was given a choice: believe in Jesus and lose his marriage, or renounce Jesus and keep his marriage. Jack got married young, and even though he called himself a Christian, he didn’t really know Jesus at that time. His wife was a devout Muslim, and everything was fine in...
In the vibrant heart of Sindh, Pakistan, God has started a revolution, turning many hearts to Jesus and gathering believers into house churches throughout the nation. In the middle of a sweltering desert and a culture centered around Islam and Hinduism, one woman’s extraordinary faith is making ripples that echo all over her country. We...
Dr. Emmanuel Donkoh, West Africa World Zone Leader, visualizes growing Christian communities of oral learners resulting from hosting this distinctive training in Ghana. This was the third time the oral Bible storytelling methodology has been presented in West Africa. Previously, it was presented in Niger and Burkina Faso in 2018. Ollis and Dr. Almena Mozon...
The Bible is filled with stories of God delivering his people from bondage. From Moses at the Exodus from Egypt, to Daniel in the lion’s den, to Jesus delivering us from sin and death on the cross, God has shown that He is a faithful and powerful Deliverer! The same God who delivered people throughout...
PRAYER
How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you? 1 Thessalonians 3:9 This zone, NAMES, standing for North Africa, Middle East and the ‘Stan’ countries of Central Asia, is full of areas resistant to the Gospel. It’s...
The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Acts 5:41 The world has often looked to China for one reason or another. This potential ‘superpower’, formerly the largest country in the world, just surpassed by India this past April, continues to boast the third...
But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. Acts 26:22 Africa, once called ‘The Dark Continent’, is now the continent with more Christians than any other continent and has the fastest growth rate of Christianity in the world! Most of these 28 countries...
During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. Acts 16: 9 – 10...
DEVOTIONS BY DCPI STAFF
We’ve Never Done It This Way Before https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0315-Weve-Never-Done-It-This-Way-Before.png Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. ~ Matthew 9:17 READING: Matthew 9:9-17 One of...
What Makes a Nehemiah? #7 – Vision Casting & Team Building https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0314-What-Makes-a-Nehemiah-7-.png Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.” And I told them of the hand...
What Makes a Nehemiah? #6 – Community Assessment https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0313-What-Makes-a-Nehemiah-6-.png So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days. Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me...
What Makes a Nehemiah? #5 – Working Your Plan and Facing Opposition https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0312-What-Makes-a-Nehemiah-5.png Then I came to the governors of the province beyond the river and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah, the Ammonite servant, heard...