Gospel Centered Churches respond to growing cities, emerging leadership challenges and to the overall task of planting churches in Southern Africa was viewed with concern by Southern Africa Church leaders at a conference held in Zimbabwe in the year 2016.
Reasons cited for such irresponsiveness include; lack of sound leadership training, lack of resources for church planting, concentrating too much on maintaining assets acquired over time such as; buildings, furniture, musical instruments, concentrating on caring for existing Church members, focusing on management meetings and short-sightedness. The result was that the Church became unwilling to sacrifice resources towards church-planting and leadership development – these amounts to willful disobedience to the Great Commission. Further to this, the Church seems to be ignoring leadership challenges within and in society.
Capitalizing on the Church’s weakness, cultic sects continue to spread like wild fire making their presence felt everywhere. Therefore, Southern Africa gospel centered Church leaders agreed to establish a Leadership and Church Planting Network (LCPN) for the purpose of helping the Church reignite the spirit of Church planting and leadership development, encouraging established Churches to equip themselves for church planting and leadership development work within nations, emerging city suburbs, rural communities across Africa, looking forward to send church planting and leadership development missionaries throughout the world.
Since its establishment, LCPN has a number of church planters planting churches across Southern Africa and has manages to carry out several leadership training workshops in Zimbabwe equipping leaders who have become transformational agents in Church and society. LCPN looks forward to do more extending this mission to other continents through networking and mission partnership.
To work with gospel-centered evangelical churches in planting churches and equipping transformational leaders for church and society.
To equip transformational leaders involved in planting Christo-centric, mission-oriented churches in partnership with the church.
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