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How does Hope Chapel reach a new generation and grow leaders for a church planting movement?

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There’s a board at Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay that lists just some of the churches that have been planted out of that church. How do they do it?

Ralph Moore uses a baseball image to describe the difference between success and failure. Success requires:

1. A willingness to learn from mistakes.
2. Lots of chances to swing the [...]

Mel Isara became a Christian through Ralph Moore. He became a MiniChurch pastor and began multiplying other groups. He caught the vision for church planting and planted his first church in 2001. Six months into the plant he stood up in front of the congregation and told them he was leaving in two years time [...]

Ralph Moore believes in “simple church”—it has to be simple and it has to reproduce.

1. MiniChurch

At the heart of Hope Chapel’s strategy of reproducing disciples, leaders and churches is the “MiniChurch”. Ralph intentionally name his small groups MiniChurches and their leaders “undershepherds”. The MiniChurch is the primary place of pastoral care and disciple-making.

MiniChurches meet weekly [...]

Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world and Terry Davidson is one of the most effective people I know who is planting churches to reach that diversity.

Actually, Terry doesn’t do much at all — except spot, grow, develop and empower the leaders who are planting those churches — Chinese, Iranian, [...]

Ralph Moore was 25 years old when he planted the first Hope Chapel in Manhattan Beach, California. It was 1972. He had no guaranteed income, a car with 154,000 miles on the clock, a wife and infant son. He had short hair and wore a three piece suit at a time where everyone else had [...]

All we know how to do is make disciples but now we have 700 churches.

Ralph MooreThere is a scarcity of dynamic church planting movements in the Western world. That’s why Ralph Moore and the Hope Chapel movement got my attention. Not only have they planted around 700 churches in since 1972, but many of those [...]