An FCOP Church

We had a couple of visitors come by this month to study our success for being the fastest growing national church movement in the world.They came convinced that it was due to our work with orphans and thus, the way to grow a big church was to help orphans.

They felt it went like this 1: Help Orphans 2: Plant a Church 3: Let that be a magnet to draw in the rest of the population. It took us a while, but I believe they know better now. If we did it that way we’d just be broke.

Here’s how we did it: 1: Plant a Church 2: Get the members into a relationship with Jesus and filled with the Holy Spirit. 3: Teach them to meet the urgent needs in their community. 4: Reach the nation. We did not start taking care of orphans in order to build a church! We built a church, and healthy churches meet the urgent needs in their community. That’s it!

In 1999 the most urgent need we faced was the homeless kids in our community. We only started orphan homes in established churches, that reached at least 100 people in attendance, and then they voted to take the plunge.