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Church Multiplication in Japan

Church Multiplication Sample Timeline

You start here.

• Get to know Asian Access.
• Get to know Japan.
• Learn a little Japanese.
• Raise support.
• Enlist prayer partners.
• Get your passport.
• Pack your bags.

12 Months

• Touch down in Japan.
• Get involved in a Japanese church.
• Learn more Japanese.
• Meet the people.
• Learn a lot more Japanese.
• Meet more people.
• Learn even more Japanese.
• Meet more people.
• Speak and learn and study more Japanese.

1 Year 8 Months

• Break in, warm up, get comfortable.
• Get to know your team.
• Become part of a small group in your church.

2 Years

• By now your Japanese is stronger.
• Your knowledge of the culture has increased.
• You have a network of relationships with unbelievers.
• You're established in a church.
• You know your team.
• You've seen God use you in Japanese people's lives.
• You're ready to begin.

Between 2 – 4 years

• Take a few months for home leave to generate any additional financial support you may need.
• Enlist added prayer support before you return to Japan to continue your first Church Multiplication Team effort.

2 years 2 months

• Start by multiplying the opportunity for the gospel in relationships with unbelievers.
• Nurture those friendships and glean a harvest of new believers.
• Gather those friends who respond to the gospel into a small group.

3 years 6 months

• Over many months you pursue the goal of building new believers into new leaders.
• Your new leaders join you in the work.
• Together you repeat the cycle of multiplying, gathering, building and sending.
• As the number of small groups multiplies, the new groups are gathered together and become a new church.

5 Years

• The end is the beginning as an expanded team continues the work of church multiplication again and again. You start a new partnership with another church in order to multiply it.

Church Multiplication Teams info

• Program Details: Short-Term Program | Long-Term Program
• Church Multiplication Network Map
• Sample Long-term Ministry Timeline
• The Ministry Setting of CM Teams
• The Ministry Objective of CM Teams
• The Characteristics of CM Teams Ministry
• Asian Access' Church Planting Partnerships
• A Japanese pastor's perspective of Asian Access' church planting model
• Church Planting by Networking, an article on the Yamagata Project

Other opportunities to serve:

• Our missionary programs to Japan:
  • Vision Trip - EnVision (10-12 days)
  • Teams - J-Teams (4 or 6 weeks)
  • Short-Term - Church Planting Associates (1-3 years)
  • Longer-Term - Church Multiplication Teams (4+ years)
• Volunteering in Southern California office
• Faculty Member (1 teaching trip to Asia every 2 years)

For more info about these service opportunities, contact us directly.

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