Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

276 • P LANTING C HURCHES AMONG THE C ITY ’ S P OOR : V OLUME 2

1. Mongolia: a dynamic movement fueled by prayer and the Mongolian people, pp. 65-67

a. Missionary priority of loving the Mongolian people

b. Strong missiological principles of training Mongolian leaders

c. Authority of the Bible emphasized in decision making

d. Church established as a cell-church movement

e. Indigenous forms of worship

2. Cambodia: extraordinary growth of indigenous church which avoided dependence on foreign funds, missionary interference, and institutionalization, pp. 68-70

a. A movement built on the importance of prayer, p. 71

b. Training of indigenous leaders (where there were RLTPs [indigenous training], church planting always followed), p. 71 c. Churches shared the tradition of a sevenfold structure, the “seven-member central committee” of the church (i.e., a worship leader, a Bible teacher, a men’s minister, a women’s minister, a youth minister, an outreach minister, and a literacy teacher), p. 73 d. Tradition used as an evangelistic invitation for church planting in unreached village (cf. “Do you have a Baptist church in your village?” If they respond predictably with, ‘What is a Baptist church?’ she replies, ‘Next week we will come and tell you about it,’”) p. 73 3. Across southeast Asia: hundreds of new churches [i.e., house churches of 10-30 members] despite severe government persecution, p. 74 a. POUCH churches as a result of training e xisting house church networks with more effective ways to survive and multiply (Garrison’s first word about church mobilization and renewal ?), p. 75