Jim Thurber is a professional storyteller and travels the world teaching believers how to tell the stories of the Bible as a way of engaging people with the gospel. In the last year, he has been trained in DMM principles and believes he now has the full picture of what storytelling can lead to, namely, multiplying disciples & churches.

Brent Hofen, pastor of Mission Church in Portland, OR shared with our weekly Ongoing Coaching group at the beginning of 2021 his church’s strategic planning process.

Jim Britts, pastor of Parkside Church in San Diego, CA, shared with our Ongoing Coaching group in the Fall of 2020 about an encounter with a former member of the Russian Mafia and their common connection to DMM.

I shared with our weekly Ongoing Coaching group in November 2020 the importance of developing WIGTake and Endvision statements & continuing to refer back to them.

Jim Britts, Pastor of Parkside Church in San Diego, CA and Brent Hofen, Pastor of Mission Church in Portland, OR encouraged our Ongoing Coaching group in the Fall of 2020 to persist in pursuing the lost. They shared about their experiences “going out among the lost” and how important it is if we want to be used by God to catalyze movements.

Dustin Pearce served as one of the pastors at a large church in Midland, TX for the last 10 years. Recently, through prayer and fasting, the Lord led him to pursue DMM in his area with the end vision of seeing his whole region become disciples of Jesus. He is a regular part of our weekly Ongoing Coaching meeting and I asked him to share his story in the Fall of 2020.

In the Fall of 2020, I shared with our Ongoing Coaching group an article written by Steve Smith called “The S.O.I.L.S. of the CPM Continuum.” In this article he discusses the best ways to spend your time at the various stages of catalyzing a movement. I wanted to share this article with our coaching group & discuss practical applications for the contexts in which we’re working.

Gary Galanos is Chris’s dad and he’s been a part of eLife since the very beginning. You’d usually find him at the door greeting people as they walked in or in his car praying for people during the service. The story of eLife has been greatly influenced by the prayers he’s prayed. He shared at our Ongoing Coaching group in the Fall of 2020 & I want to share the video with you here.

Jim Britts, Founding & Senior Pastor of Parkside Church in San Diego, CA shared with our coaching group in September 2020 about his church’s journey into DMM. His story is so powerful!

Dr. Kent Parks, President & CEO of Beyond, joined us for our weekly Ongoing Coaching meeting & shared about what God is doing across the world & the remarkable fruit they’ve in pursuing movements. He shares:

Suzie Judd is a pastor at Good News Church in Augusta, GA. She shared at one of our recent Ongoing Coaching meetings about the transition of their church to a DMM strategy.

Roy Moran is the pastor of Shoal Creek Community Church in Kansas City, MO. He’s also the author of a book on DMM called Spent Matches — a must read! Roy is the first pastor I know of to attempt an implementation of DMM in the American church. And he was one of the early inspirations in our own journey toward DMM.

Brent Hofen is the pastor of Mission Church, a multi-site church in Oregon with 4 campuses. He founded the church 13 years ago & since then, they’ve seen over 1,500 professions of faith. A few years ago Brent learned about DMM & sensed God leading him & his leadership team to implement DMM in their church.

In a weekly Ongoing Coaching meeting, I shared about the difference between Catalytic Teams and DMM Churches. We initially conflated these ideas, but since untangling them a bit with the help of our coach, we immediately began to see more momentum.

This is the 2nd part of a 2-part series discussing the “Generational Dynamics & Challenges” article that Steve Smith & Stan Parks wrote.

Stan Parks & Steve Smith, experienced CPM catalysts, put together a very important document called “Generational Dynamics & Challenges” that help CPM practitioners at various stages learn what to focus on & what challenges they’ll likely face.

Dr. Stan Parks, an experienced movement catalyst, joined us a number of months ago in our DMM Ongoing Coaching meeting and shared several key elements in movements.

Exciting news! Our 3rd course is being released today at TentmakingPastors.com. It's called Flip Hacking!

I’m excited to announce launch of our new House Hacking course today! This is the 2nd course that we’ve released at TentmakingPastors.com. You can check out the previous blog post here for an overview of the other courses we’ve released & the ones we’re planning for the future.

I’m super excited to tell you about the launch of TentmakingPastors.com today, a project that I’ve been working on for a few months. Do you have a few minutes for the back story?