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The DAWN Vision

DAWN is a biblical and mission-oriented VISION, that recommends a practically proven PROCESS to develop an evangelistic and national STRATEGY

DAWN is an acronym for "Discipling a Whole Nation". It is a strategy developed to fulfil our Lord's command to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt 28:19,20). To do this DAWN seeks to mobilise the whole body of Christ in a nation to provide Christ-centred cells, congregations or churches for every village and neighbourhood of every class, kind and condition of person in the nation.

The purpose of DAWN is to see saturation church planting become the generally-accepted and fervently practised strategy for completing the task of making disciples of all peoples in our generation. Our concern is that the body of Christ in every land ought to be praying and working for the discipling of that whole nation, including all its people groups.

Our conviction is that this is accomplished most effectively when the whole church of a whole nation is committed to the goal of having at least one Christ-centred congregation within easy access of every person in the nation. There should be a living, growing, Christ-centred congregation for every 1,000 people or smaller community unit.

"DAWN is one of these unexpected, meaningful, strategic and promising ways of God. Many leaders found new hope that a re-evangelisation of Europe may be possible."
Jeff Fountain, European director of YWAM, Holland

With a witnessing congregation in every neighbourhood, every person will have the opportunity to make an informed, intelligent decision for or against Jesus, and will have a place of fellowship where he or she could be discipled should they become a believer.

DAWN recognises that the job of discipling a nation is too big for any one denomination. It provides an answer by bringing a unity of purpose to a diversity of styles and means.

DAWN seeks to further national movements of saturation church planting and encourages research, intercession and strategy.

DAWN works to see existing churches take on their God-given responsibility for the community around them, and to see new churches planted into communities where there is no church.

DAWN around the world

DAWN grew out of the experiences of the national church in the Philippines during the seventies.

Research and prayer helped answer the question, "What do we need to do to disciple our nation?" These answers were then used to set relevant and realistic goals. In turn these goals were used to inspire and motivate the local church to the task.

At that time the goal of the leadership was to plant 50,000 new churches by the year 2000. Currently (1995) the number of churches has grown from 5000 to 37,000. If current growth continues, by the year 2000 there will be 85,000 churches in the Philippines.

Since 1974 the DAWN strategy has been implemented in many parts of the world. In New Zealand it has resulted in growth of every denomination, in India indigenous leaders have set a goal of planting 500,000 new churches. It is currently at some stage of development in over 100 nations world-wide.

The present general secretary of the World-wide Evangelical Alliance, Jun Vencer, was leader of the DAWN project in the Philippines for nine years. DAWN Ministries (Colorado Springs, USA) has been in existance since 1984, and DAWN Europa since 1992. DAWN is an associate member of the World-wide Evangelical Alliance UK and serves within the commission of evangelisation and church planting.

Quotes

"DAWN is the best delivery system that we have for taking church growth principles and helping them to be applied in a particular nation to plant and build up churches." C. Peter Wagner
"DAWN is not a program with a fixed recipe, but a kind of team work. AUBE 2000 (= DAWN) achieves the impossible by bringing together movements and churches of completely different traditions to one common goal." Daniel Schaerer, France

Three books by Jim Montgomery:

DAWN2000 - 7 million churches to go (.zip, 149kb) The basic book about the DAWN Strategy

And The End will come (zip, 229kb) - DAWN part II

"It is DAWN if..." (.doc, 53kb)

A little Powerpoint for the European Situation by Reinhold Scharnowski: DAWN - strategy or program? (ppt, 35kb)