FOUR FIELDS MODEL VCP trainers travel to areas across Africa where many villages still have no church. There, they identify and equip 15 church planters to sow the good seed of the Gospel and begin working through the four fields model— a biblical strategy for planting and multiplying churches.
01 // NEW FIELD The new field requires an entry plan
Church planters help new believers understand and apply New Testament stories that relate to each of the seven basic commands of Jesus. As disciples grow and multiply, church planters gather them into newly planted churches. In turn, these churches plant daughter churches to the fourth generation and beyond.
And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.
02 // SEEDED FIELD The seeded field requires an evangelism plan
The trainer mobilizes 15 church planters from surrounding villages to attend a 48-month church planting internship at the VCP training center. Trainers serve as teachers, mentors, and coaches to these first-generation church planters.
LUKE 9:6
03 // GROWING FIELD The growing field requires a discipleship plan |
Every six months, the trainer helps church planters of all generations celebrate progress, evaluate church health, and plan for further multiplication using a church diagram with symbols based on the nine church activities described in Acts 2:37 – 47. |
ACTS 2:37-47 |
PRAYER |
04 // HARVEST FIELD The harvest field requires a leadership training plan, a church multiplication plan, and a sending plan |
And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
2 TIMOTHY 2:2
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FELLOWSHIP
WORSHIP
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APPLY BIBLE
LORD’ S SUPPER
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GIVE
BAPTIZE
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EVANGELIZE
TRAIN + DEVELOP WORKERS
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