Malawi Project
Donations as of 3/21/07:

$5,258.00

Read the first Malawi Report:

September 2006
Malawi Trip (PDF)

What's life like in Malawi?

Because the country is part lake
and part land, fishing is a way of
life in Malawi

If you're not fishing in water,
you're carrying it on your head!

This business owner advertises
TV repair, charging batteries,
sells bottled water and will gladly
provide investment advice.
Ah, diversification!

Where is Malawi?

Malawi is located in the
central part of southern
Africa, surrounded by
Mozambique, Tanzania,
and Zambia.

The Cell Church Planting Foundation

The Cell Church Planting Foundation was formed in 2002 by the board of directors for TOUCH® Outreach Ministries, Inc. It currently resides under TOUCH® Outreach Ministries' 501c-3 non-profit status. All funds are invested in cell-based church planting efforts, with no funds being used for administrative costs.

TOUCH® Outreach has fully funded this foundation for the last four years, and now invites individuals, churches and other groups to join us in supporting cell church planters in powerful new ways.

Mission

The mission of the CCPF is to support cell-based church planting movements and individual cell church plants throughout the world by providing printed resources and training on pastoral, leader and member levels.

Goal

The goal of CCPF is to successfully support cell-based church planters in ways that their denomination or sending organization cannot provide. In many cases, it is helping the pastor learn how to develop an implementation team. In other cases, it is providing discipleship and leadership development resources the church cannot afford in its infancy. In yet other cases, the goal is to help fund the church planter who must translate and print resources that can be used in the native language where he or she is currently serving.

Why support cell-based church planting efforts?

A vast majority of denominationally-funded church plants die within the first two years. Imagine how hard it would be to plant a non-traditional church like a cell-based church!

In first world countries like the US, sending agencies don't have a clue as to what a cell-based church planter is trying to achieve and how long it takes to do it right. Quite often, they lose their funding as well as prayer and emotional support within a year or two at the most. In third world countries, cell-based church planting is the only way a new church forms due to the high cost of real estate. Their challenge is finding enough finanicial resources to equip new beleivers and train leaders.

The need to support cell-based church planters and planting movements around the world is obvious. If those of us who enjoy cell life don't support the movement, who will?

Who decides how to spend the monies you give?

The board of directors for TOUCH Outreach Ministries currently makes these decisions. They are godly men and women who have devoted their lives to pastoring cell-based churches, and names you'd recognize instantly. Among them is Ralph Neighbour, Jr., the founder of TOUCH Outreach and Larry Kreider of DOVE Christian Fellowship International. Currently, the CCPF is directed by Randall Neighbour, President of TOUCH Outreach Ministries. As the CCPF grows and can survive on its own, a new board will be formed to insure the monies are invested into the right churches. There's one thing you need to know—CCPF funds are not used to pay for any salaries or for administration of the foundation. All monies are invested into CCPF projects in such a way as there is no waste or misuse of funds.

Past Projects

In recent years, the CCPF has sponsored cell church planters from Sri Lanka and India so they could attend the annual Cell Church Missions Network Summit, hosted by Ben Wong in Hong Kong. We've also donated video projectors to two church plants as needed for worship services. It has been a tremendous blessing to do this for church planters, who are often working tirelessly, with little to no pay, and against great odds! We consider our contribution as one more way to level the playing field and give the church plant a fighting chance at survival.

The Malawi Project

The current project for the CCPF is to train cell church planters in Malawi and supply them with basic discipleship resources in their native language. Randall Neighbour, President of TOUCH Outreach travelled to Benoni, South Africa in September of this year and go into Malawi with a team.

The CCPF desires to fund the translation and printing of simplified discipleship and cell leadership training tools locally. This may seem straightforward, but the challenge is sizeable and cannot be accomplished without your participation.

Our goal for the Malawi Project is to raise $10,800 US Dollars by May, 2008 and we are half way to our goal, praise the Lord! The monies are being invested in the following ways:

• $2,000 to pay for translations of 10 books. These monies will actually employ two bilingual people to work full time on the resources needed.
• $6,000 to pay for the printing of these books and to establish a resource center for distribution.
• $580 for travel expenses for a South African GAP representative (see below) to bring TOUCH training modules into Malawi and establish the resource center and translation and printing process.

Our South African Partner

TOUCH Outreach is partnering with The Global Apostolic Partnership to provide the training and cell group resources for the pastors in Malawi. Please visit their web site and see how they are making a difference!

How you can become a part of the Malawi project
The Malawi pastors need prayer support! Visit this web page often to see prayer requests we post here and the specific ways you can pray for Malawi church planters.

While you are praying for the Malawi church planters, consider making a donation with your order for resources or by sending us funds for this project. Please make generous tax-deductible gifts to the CCPF so a new resource and training center can be created in Malawi. Send all donations to:

The Malawi Project - CCPF

c/o TOUCH Outreach Ministries, Inc.

PO Box 7847, Houston, Texas 77270

If you prefer to charge a donation on a credit card, please call our offices:
800-735-5865 (if outside the US, call 713-896-7478)

If you have question about our current project, please call us!