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Independent Christian ChurchGlobal Church Growth inc.Global Church Growth Inc. equips churches, missionaries, and ministry leaders through disciple-making training, mentoring, church planting…Independent Christian Church · Missions
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Global Church Growth Inc. — Organization Profile Global Church Growth Inc., also known as Global Church Growth Discipling Ministries or GCGDM, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-denominational Christian ministry connected with Sevierville and Seymour, Tennessee. The organization states that its goal…
Global Church Growth Inc. — Organization Profile Global Church Growth Inc., also known as Global Church Growth Discipling Ministries or GCGDM, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-denominational Christian ministry connected with Sevierville and Seymour, Tennessee. The organization states that its goal is becoming disciples and its mission is making disciples. Its public materials describe the ministry as providing training, training materials, and support to churches, missionaries, individuals, and ministries around the world. The organization’s core focus is making disciples of Jesus Christ by equipping ethnic, foreign, and national ministries and their leaders with practical training, materials, mentoring, and support. Global Church Growth describes its mission as helping ministries make disciples and foster others in making disciples. Its work is directed toward…
Global Church Growth Inc. — Organization Profile
Global Church Growth Inc., also known as Global Church Growth Discipling Ministries or GCGDM, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-denominational Christian ministry connected with Sevierville and Seymour, Tennessee. The organization states that its goal is becoming disciples and its mission is making disciples. Its public materials describe the ministry as providing training, training materials, and support to churches, missionaries, individuals, and ministries around the world.
The organization’s core focus is making disciples of Jesus Christ by equipping ethnic, foreign, and national ministries and their leaders with practical training, materials, mentoring, and support. Global Church Growth describes its mission as helping ministries make disciples and foster others in making disciples. Its work is directed toward strengthening church leaders, new churches, established congregations, and mission partners.
Global Church Growth serves ministries in the United States and internationally, with official materials identifying global work in places such as Cuba, Myanmar, Nepal, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Russia, Poland, Mexico, Antigua, Uganda, and other mission contexts. The ministry’s approach emphasizes equipping native leaders to carry on disciple-making work in their own communities.
The organization operates through on-site seminars, church planting support, internships, personal mentoring, foreign missions, and service tracks. Its training includes evangelism, discipleship, leadership, church growth, giftedness, shepherding, and the “Uniquely You” profiling resource. Global Church Growth states that it does not simply present seminars or provide materials, but also offers personal mentoring and monitoring for those who partner with the ministry.
A distinctive part of Global Church Growth’s approach is combining church-growth training with long-term disciple-making systems, mentoring, and leadership development for local ministry leaders. Its founder and director, Dr. Michael R. Householder, developed the “Walk in Discipleship” series after seeing the need to help new believers continue growing as disciples. The ministry’s history includes work in Eastern Europe, Russia, Poland, and other regions where churches have been trained in discipleship and church-growth principles.
People can engage with Global Church Growth by giving financially, praying, joining the email list, inviting the ministry to train leaders, ordering materials through Fishnet Publishers, or contacting the ministry about seminars and service tracks. The organization also asks for support for short-term workers, full-time missionaries, church planting, established church growth, and funds needed to continue its disciple-making ministry.
