+ Church Multiplication Center

Vision

Our dream is to assess, coach, train, and send out those called to 5-fold vocational ministry to expand the kingdom of God through church multiplication.

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Definition

Church Multiplication Center is a tailor made training and matching process that prepares and sends leaders for church plants, church expansions, church adoptions, and other innovative church expressions that disciple various culture groups locally, regionally, and internationally leading to church planting movements.


Brian Weaver - Director of the CMC

Brian is working New Life Ministries International as Director of Development. Brian is also serving as a missionary traveling in the US and abroad with a passion for reaching the lost, equipping the body to become missional, and assisting church planters to go forth to birth vibrant churches. Brian is a 1996 Zion Bible College graduate and the first missionary to be sent out from the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in Pensacola, Florida. Brian served as a full time missionary in Tanzania, East Africa for 5 years before marrying his wife Janine. She joined him to live in Tanzania for 3 additional years where they focused on urban and rural church planting, leadership development, and reaching the un-reached.

In 2006, the Weavers took a study sabbatical at Regent University, where Brian recently graduated with his Masters of Arts in Practical Theology. He and his wife Janine are ordained ministers and currently have their own non-profit ministry, Strategic Global Impact, Inc. Brian and Janine travel and minister together around the US and the globe doing crusades, seminars, teaching and training leaders and church members, and conducting Holy Spirit meetings. In February of 2009, he launched a Bible college in southern Tanzania in the city of Mtwara; this particular location is strategic for reaching of hundreds of Islamic villages that need churches. They reside currently in Virginia Beach, Virginia with their infant daughter Abigail and expecting their second.

Four PHASES for Preparing a Church Planter

PHASE ONE: NESTING

Assessments and Evaluation

Application & Recommendation Letter
Initial Screening
Initial Interview
Take assessments
Boot Camp
Post-Boot Camp Evaluation and Recommendations

PHASE TWO: INVESTING

Coaching & Training

Personal Development
1. Start Coaching
2. Develop a Personal Growth Plan
Church Planting Development
1. Modular Training
2. Online Discussion
3. Reading Assignments

PHASE THREE: TESTING

Pre-launch Preparation

Support, Encouragement, and Accountability (SEA) with Growth Plans
Mentoring
Reading
Practical Ministry Opportunities in needed areas
Development of Church Planting strategy
Development of Pre-launch Team
Fundraising

PHASE FOUR: CRESTING

Church Plant Launch

Services Begin
Continued Support, Encouragement, and Accountability (SEA)
Visits from Leaders

UPCOMING EVENTS

Leadership Training Classes: January 25 - May 17, 2010
*all classes will be held 6 -9PM @ New Life VA Beach, 149 Business Park , Virginia Beach, VA 23462
$20/per session; call 757.233.8578 for more details.
January 25
The Prelaunch & Launch Team of a Church Plant
Dr. Bobby HIll
Functional Team Ministry
Pastor Brent Lucy
February 15
Effective Leadership in the 21st Century
Dr. Joseph Umidi
Establishing a Healthy Church
Pastor Dan Backens
March 15
Stategic Planning and Thinking
Dr. Bill Brown
Culture and Communication
Dr. Markus Pfeiffer
April 19
Spiritual & Emotional Life of Church Planter & His Family
Pastor John McCloud
Values of Multicultural Church Planting
Pastor Kevin Turpin
May 17
Logistics of Running a Church
Dr. James Flynn
Developing Missional Thinking
Brian Weaver