Billion Soul Initiative outreach program going along big
The Billion Soul Initiative is underway with 30 million new believers and more than 109,000 churches just one year into the global movement’s launch.
The Billion Soul Campaign steering committee leadership, working in tandem with task forces and their own global networks (God.tv, etc.), say the next step are twelve Global Church Planting Congresses, the first of which is September 26-28, 2006 in Lima, Peru.
Approximately 350 of the top church planters from around the world will gather in Dallas for the first-ever Global Church Planting Congress. Already, over 150 world-changing church planters have been referred by the coalition of leaders making up the Billion Soul Campaign, plus the names of denominational and para-church leaders, for a total of nearly 200 at the present time who will be invited to attend. Some of the highlighted biographies of the leaders who are being invited to Dallas are:
* planted 600 churches in his region alone last year;
* planted churches in Harlem, Chicago, Miami, St. Paul and Minneapolis by raising up leaders from his local church and sending them out;
* started 9,700 churches in the past 8 years and baptized more than 450,000 Muslims;
* leading a church planting movement in China that has baptized about 250,000 persons in the past four years;
* instrumental in seeing over 1,800 new churches planted among three different people groups over the past four years.
