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More churches - Better churches - New churches

To Disciple a nation, many New Churches are needed.

Together with traditional, congregation-type churches, more and more alternative forms of church are emerging today. DAWN wants to be a catalyst for the planting of congregational as well as cell churches, house churches and New Generation churches. They need to be seen as complementary; our society is not an uniform mass and less and less "white-middle aged-middle class".

What will the Church be next? - an excerpt of an exciting new book by Church Growth professor Eddie Gibbs

"Planting Church Planting Churches" or: How to start a reproducing Church

15 Theses towards a Re-Incarnation of Church

God is changing the Church, and that, in turn, will change the world. Millions of Christians around the world are aware of an imminent reformation of global proportions. They say, in effect: "Church as we know it is preventing Church as God wants it." A growing number of them are surprisingly hearing God say the very same things. There is a collective new awareness of age-old revelations, a corporate spiritual echo. In the following "15 Theses" I will summarize a part of this, and I am convinced that it reflects a part of what the Spirit of God is saying to the Church today. For some, it might be the pro-verbial fist-sized cloud on Elijah's sky. Others already feel the pouring rain. [read more]