ABOUT DCPI
WHO WE ARE
Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1992 with the vision of training leaders in every country of the world to plant dynamic churches to reach the world for Jesus. We offer all of our trainings sponsored by generous donors, allowing hundreds of thousands of men and women called by God to take the Gospel to their tribes, tongues, and nations without financial barriers. We offer 8 tracks of training built upon biblical principles and actionable applications, so DCPI churches are effective and healthy. In 2021, we celebrated 1 MILLION churches!
Our Mission
Our mission is to train leaders to plant dynamic churches. We equip those leaders with time-tested, Biblically-based training curriculum, so that they plant healthy churches that reproduce and plant more healthy churches. Our research shows that each leader trained plants an average of 2.55 churches, and each church leads an average of 40 people to Christ.
Our Vision
Our vision is to equip leaders to plant five million churches to reach the world for Christ. As of January 2022, we have trained leaders to plant over one million churches! We are now focusing on the Five Million Church Vision with excitement and determination. God has also given us a vision to introduce our training to every country of the world. We have less than 30 countries left, and we know God will do it.
Our Values
Our values are woven throughout our DNA. Check out our DNA below.
You’ll see that our two highest values are God’s Word and His people.
We value the Bible and base all of our trainings on truth from God’s Word instead of situation-based models. We value diversity and work almost exclusively through national leaders reaching their regions for Jesus. Scroll to see our DNA.
OVER 1,000,000 CHURCHES AND GROWING
Our vision is to see a healthy church in every community of the world. We believe that means the world will need about 5,000,000 churches planted. To do this, the world needs 1.6 million equipped, empowered church planters.
Our goal is to train these leaders by 2033!
God built DCPI from one mentor to a vision for five million churches.
OUR STORY
1992: Founder, Paul Becker, received a vision from the Lord to found an organization to train church planters, using his experience in church planting.
1994: Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI) was founded.
1995: God gave DCPI the audacious vision of training leaders to plant ONE THOUSAND churches. DCPI expanded over the years to multiple countries and multiple languages, with a vision of 20,000 churches then 1 million churches and reaching to every country of the world.
Early 2000s: DCPI expanded its model to make every training sponsored and to certify trainers, so that we could continue training pastors in places we would never go and in languages we will never speak. This sponsorship approach ensures that financial barriers do not hinder the equipping of church leaders globally.
2009: God knocked down an old oak tree that had been significant to our founder Paul Becker, and He used this to tell Paul that the One Million Church Vision was too small. God was calling DCPI to equip men and women of God to plant FIVE MILLION CHURCHES. In obedience, the DCPI team believed God, and we have been pursuing His vision enthusiastically to this day!
2021: God fulfilled the 1 million church vision when DCPI trained the leader who will plant the 1 millionth church!
2022: DCPI Founder Paul Becker passed during the exact week that DCPI’s global leaders gathered for a Global Vision Summit. God showed DCPI leaders the way forward and reminded them that the 5 Million Church Vision is God’s vision!
2023: DCPI Executive Director, Scott Kirk, affirmed as new DCPI President. DCPI sees it's highest number of leaders trained ever!
Today: DCPI is still on track to train leaders to plant 5 Million Churches to reach the world for Christ! Great things are happening at DCPI, and we are accelerating toward our "Every-Country Vision" and the "Five Million Church Vision."
ABOUT OUR FOUNDER
PAUL BECKER
Paul Becker started DCPI in 1994 after mentoring a few church planters and discovering the multitude of people around the world who are called to church planting but didn't know where to start. Paul Becker was a church planter, himself, who had a passion to multiply churches, so that communities could be reached and discipled in Jesus!
The vision to start DCPI, then the 1,000 church vision, then the 10,000 church vision, then the 1 million church vision, then the 5 million church vision, and the vision for taking DCPI training to every country of the world all came from conversations that Paul had with God in prayer. The team at DCPI Central as well as each of DCPI’s world zone teams, holds the highest respect for Paul and will miss him dearly, but his legacy lives on in the Five Million Church Vision.
Our DNA
Quality over Quantity
We believe that multiplying qualified reproductive trainers and leaders is more essential than training a crowd.
Give and it Will be Given
We believe in a “Give and it shall be given” approach to personal support and national funding.
Accountability
We believe that if you are not reporting, you are not a DCPI trainer or leader.
Practical Application
We believe that a written and verbal project makes the training come to life, and must be done by every student, in every training event.
Cooperation
We believe in working with all leaders who are Bible-teaching and Christ-centered.
Envisioning
We believe in completing a God-given vision and expanding the church planting visions of others.
Indigenous Leadership
We believe it is crucial to empower indigenous leaders.
Kingdom Focus
We believe in focusing on the growth of God’s Kingdom worldwide through church planting, evangelism, and discipleship.
Leader of Leaders
We look for, work through, and develop apostolic style leaders, who can significantly influence entire regions and the whole world for Christ.
Team Teaching
We believe in a team approach to provide high quality church planting training.
SO FAR, WE'VE SEEN...
523,213
Leaders Trained
187
Curriculum Translations
1,334,193
Churches Planted
185
Countries
How it Works
Our strategy to bring Jesus to every Nation
We seek to be true to the model that Jesus gave us to equip, empower, and send out Kingdom multipliers.
DCPI STATEMENT OF FAITH
The Doctrinal Statement of Faith is to be used as the official doctrinal position of Dynamic Church Planting International, and its contents are to be taught and agreed upon by all new staff as a prerequisite for staff membership. The International Office will be responsible for seeing that every staff member continues to be in conformity to this Statement of Faith.
The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God’s infallible written Word, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely, verbal plenary and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that it was written without error in the original manuscripts. It is the inerrant, supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.
We accept those large areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true Christians. Because of the specialized calling of our ministry, we desire to allow for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters, provided that any interpretation is based upon the Bible alone, and that no such interpretation shall become an issue which hinders the ministry to which God has called us.
We explicitly affirm our belief in basic Bible teachings as follows:
There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – each of whom equally shares all the attributes of deity and the characteristics of personality. Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:18; John 1:1-3,18; Acts 5:3,4
Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect deity and true humanity united in one person forever. John 1:1,14; Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:30-37; Colossians 2:9; Philippians 2:6-11
He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone. I John 3:5; I Peter 3:18; John 10:17-18; II Corinthians 5:21; I John 4:10; Romans 3:24-26
He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He had lived and died. I Corinthians 15:4,14; Luke 24:36-43; John 20:24-29
He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own. Acts 1:9-11; Ephesians 1:20; I Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 7:24,25; I John 2: 1-2
Man was originally created in the image of God. He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated from his Creator. That brought all mankind under divine condemnation. Genesis1:26-27;2:15-17; 3:1-24: Romans 5:12-21; I Corinthians 15:21-22
Man’s nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please God. Every man is in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit. Romans 3:9-20; Ephesians 2:1-7; Mark 7:20-23; John 3:1-21; Titus 3:5-7
The salvation of man is wholly a work of God’s free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works of goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight. Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans3:21-26;9:30-33; Galatians 3:11-14,22-24
It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written Word. I Thessalonians 1:5; John 1:12; I John 5:9-13; Romans 8:14-17
The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power, control and gifts are appropriated in the believer’s life by faith. John 3:5-8; 16:7-15; Titus 3:5; Romans 8:2-4,9; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; I Corinthians 6:19; Galatians 3:2-3
Every believer is called to live in the power of the indwelling Spirit so that he will not fulfill the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God. Galatians 5:16-25; Ephesians 5:18
Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith. Colossians 1:18; Ephesians1:22-23;5:23-32; I Thessalonians 4:13-18
God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement. Hebrews 10:23-25; Acts 2:42; 20:7; I Corinthians 12:20-28; 16:1-2; Ephesians 4: 11-16, I Timothy 4:13; II Timothy 3:16; 4:2
At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing. II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23-24; Luke 23:39-43; I Corinthians 15:12-58; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I John 3:2; Philippians 3:21
At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting judgment and condemnation. Luke 16:19-31; John 5:23-29; Revelation 20:10-15; Matthew 13:40-43
Jesus Christ will come again to the earth – personally, visibly, and bodily – to consummate history and the eternal plan of God. Acts 1:9-11; 3:19-21; Revelation 19:1-22; 21
The Lord Jesus commanded all believers to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfillment of the Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.” Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 24:46-49; Acts 1:7-8; Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 2:19-20; Philippians 3:7-21
How it Works
Sponsored Trainings: How and Why?
How We Multiply
One training and one leader at a time, DCPI leaders teach principles for church planting, growing new churches, planting house churches, etc. Our students learn how to write a Vision-Plan-Timeline (VPT), which helps them outline each step in the process toward planting their church. We walk them through each piece of the planning, so their churches are structured in a healthy way and prayerfully designed. Then, we prayerfully send them out to follow God’s call. Leaders we have trained often come back to us for more trainings and to get certified to train others! Our content is THAT helpful.
God spoke to our founder in 2004 and said, “Give and it will be given to you,” and we responded by faith. God inspired us to make all of our DCPI training accessible without direct costs to participants, to help the maximum number of people worldwide. However, training people does incur costs. It requires resources to develop content, transport leaders, rent facilities globally, and much more. We are able to offer our trainings through the generous contributions of our donors. Kingdom-minded individuals and organizations generously provide so that we can equip church planters everywhere. Would you like to contribute? You can! Give below.
DCPI’s multiplication strategy is what has turned our mission into a movement. Our simple and intentional appointment of Certified Trainers, Master Trainers, and Senior Master Trainers extends the impact of DCPI to the far corners of the world. Basically, once a person has gone through one of our trainings, he or she is sent out to plant a church. Once that person has planted a church, they can get certified to teach our DCPI materials as a “Certified Trainer (CT)”. Certified Trainers can get certified to certify trainers as “Master Trainers (MTs)”, and so we grow.
OUR TEAM
Scott Kirk
President
Scott serves as the President of DCPI, leading the DCPI team toward the fulfillment of our vision of equipping leaders to plant five million dynamic churches to reach the world for Christ. Managing the Central staff team leaders and the training team staff, Scott is helping to create a mentoring culture that will empower indigenous leaders to plant churches and launch church planting movements all over the world.
Amy Bayer
Chief Experience Officer
Amy serves as the Chief Experience Officer, where she oversees Operations, Marketing, and Technology, supporting the internal components of the org. She is passionate about improving the user experience for all of DCPI's trainees, trainers, world zone leaders, donors, & missionaries!
Cathy Becker
Vice President of Advancement
Cathy serves as the Vice President of Advancement, where she helps make strategic decisions, builds relationships with DCPI's donor partners, and raises funds to advance the mission of DCPI. Cathy is passionate about funding the planting of millions of churches to win the world for Christ!
Kevin Marsico
Chief of Global Ministry
Kevin serves as the Chief of Global Ministry where he oversees training, global leadership, and DCPI curriculum & translations. Kevin is passionate about mentoring and developing high-level church planting movement leaders to accelerate church planting movements worldwide.
Free Grafton
Vice President of Systems and Engineering
Free serves as the Vice President of Systems & Engineering, where he oversees the strategic direction and implementation of DCPI’s tech. Free is passionate about developing innovative solutions that support Global Leadership and Advancement to become maximally effective and efficient, as we work toward the 5 Million Church Vision.
Eric Helmbold
Vice President of Global Leadership
Eric serves as the Vice President of Global Leadership, where he works closely with DCPI World Zone Leaders to accelerate training throughout the world toward God’s Five Million Church Vision. Eric is passionate that the most effective evangelistic strategy under heaven is church planting.
Chris McKinney
Vice President of Operations
Chris serves as the Vice President of Operations, where he leads the teams that provide administrative and logistical support to all DCPI staff and volunteers. Chris oversees the Central office, the Finance team, the Human Resources team, and the Ministry Partner Development team.
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