Global Church Growth Discipling Ministries is a 501c3 non-profit, non-denominational organization committed to helping equip churches, international and national leaders, and lay people to fulfill the Great Commission through discipleship and leadership training.

All donations are tax deductible.


  

 
FAQS
1. What is GCGDMinistries and when was it founded?
 
  • GCGDministries through the development of Dr. Michael Householder has created a comprehensive system that helps individuals and churches to discover their talents, gifts and behavioral patterns to become better Disciples of Jesus Christ through evangelism, doctrinal studies, family shepherding, leadership apprenticeship development, and a general methodology on how to setup and run a church on a strong Bibilical foundation.
  • GCGDMinistries was founded by Dr. Michael Householder in 1995 and was fully incorporated in 2004.
2. How can GCGDMinistries help my ministry?
 
  • For a new church, it is a ready-made system that would help you to get started.
  • For an established church, it is a system that would help you reevalute and target your current methods and procedures.
  • Whether new or established, it would help you to identify your talents, gifts and behavioral patterns. Essentially, arming you with the knowledge of how to become better Disciples of Jesus Christ through evangelism, doctrinal studies, family shepherding, leadership apprenticeship development, and a general methodology on how to setup and run your church on a strong Bibilical foundation.
  • GCGDMinistries can help you reach out and win the lost, and keep those you have saved, active and involved in your ministry.
3. What makes GCGDMinistries different from other missions and what has been its results?
 
  • As far as wanting to fulfill the great commission GCGDMinistries hopes that we all have the same agenda.
  • However specifically, GCGDMinistries is committed in helping natives and other missionaires to develop a Bibilically founded system in their land and culture that will make and keep disciples.
  • Also, GCGDMinistries is developing and translating material that would help make disciples around the world.
  • Essentially, GCGDMinistries comes alongside your ministry to help you build and sustain it within Biblical principles and foundations.
  • The results:
    • o From 1979 to 1985 Dr. Householder began the process of discipling, during this time he personally baptized 60 people in the first year. At the end of his ministry, five years later, 100% of the people were still in the church.
    • The same success is continuing today. Over a two-year period for those churches that have brought GCGDMinistries in alongside them to help them implement the "Global Discipling Ministry System", the growth and retention rate is around 90% of people who both have accepted and followed Jesus Christ and have been baptised.
4. How do I get GCGDMinistries to come and train my Church or mission?
 
Please contact us.
5. How can I become involved with GCGDMinistries?
 
You can become involved with GCGDMinistries in several ways or a combination thereof:
  • As a Financial Partner you could give a one time donation or you could give recurrinlgy on a periodic basis, such as monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually.
  • As a Missionary you would either create a new field mission or you would help in an existing field mission. In both cases, you would be trained on our "Global Discipling Ministry System" to evangelize, disciple and inturn train others on the system to do the same.
  • As a Staff Person you would work under the leadership of GCGDMinistries in one of several roles that stay local to your community such as office administration, printing, website upkeep, etc.
  • As a State/Regional Reprsentative you would work under the leadership of GCGDMinistries and act for and support a specific region within the USA or outside the USA.
  • As a Team Member you would work under the leadership of GCGDMinistries in one of several roles such as a Missionary, a Trainer, a Translator, and/or a State/Regional Representative.
  • As a Trainer you would become certified on the "Global Discipling Ministry System" to inturn train others in the USA or worldwide, depending on your availability and desire to travel. Also, you would share in the sales of books and fees collected.
  • As a Translator you would help translate from English to a foreign language of your choice our five books that comprise the "Global Discipling Ministry System". We need an army of translators to fulfill our need to provide discipling materials world wide.
  • These roles are not mutually exclusive. For example a Team Member could also be a Staff Person and vice versa.
  • To get started please contact us.
6. What is a State(Regional) Representative?
 
A State(Regional) Representative is usually a church within one of the 50 United States. One goal of the ministry is to expand this to all 50 states. Another goal is to find and expand this to an international level and depending on the size of the geographical region, find and appoint one or more international representatives.
A State/Regional Representative, nationally or internationally, acts for and supports a specific geographic region. Within this region, the representative would train other churches and would follow-up with them on their progress. In addition, the representative would be responsible for overseeing other trainers within the same geographic region.
7. How does one become a State(Regional) Respresentative?
 
You must be trained and become certified on the Global Discipling Ministry System.
8. What are the benefits of being a State(Regional) Representative?
 
As you train, you will receive compensation from your training and follow-up. Also, you will have discounts on materials used by the churches.
9. How can I become a Financial Partner?
 
You can be one of two types of a Financial Partner: a) you can give a one time donation or b) you can give recurrinlgy on a periodic basis, such as monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually. In either case, the funds are needed in many different areas to help run and expand this mission for making disciples.
As a Financial Partner we will reveal our budget to you so that you will know where the funds are being applied. You can either give a) to the General Fund to be directed as needed or b) to a specific fund used for a specific cause.
10. How can I become a Translator?
 
To become a Translator you would need to speak and write English well and be a gifted native speaker and a long-time missionary in a specific geographic region.
This position is not totally a volunteer role for the primary reason that a volunteer, although great, usually does not accomplish the task on a timely basis. Therefore, GCGDMinistries plans to compensate you as a translator, which allows GCGDMinistries to ask for and set a reasonable timetable for accomplishing the translation task. Depending on each geographic location's economic status, a timetable and price are mutually agreed. Then you would be paid by GCGDMinistries one third of the price upfront and the remainder upon completion of the translation task.
GCGDMinistries has found that the best method for accomplishing a given translation is to locate a coordinator for each language group. This person would be a translator too and would be assigned the responsibility of directing the other translation team members.
11. What is the difference between a Team Member and a Staff Person?
 
A Team Member is an individual who works directly for GCGDMinistries as the person who travels, trains, and opens up new works around the world. Essentially, s/he is a missionary who must raise his/her own support.
A Staff Person is an individual who works under the leadership of GCGDMinistries in the role of helping keep the office functioning such as administrative work, printing, website upkeep, and so forth.
These two roles are not mutually exclusive. A Team Member can be a Staff Person and vice versa.
12. What is the relationship between GCGDMinistries and Fishnet Publishers?
 
Global Church Growth Discipling Ministries or GCGDMinistries for short is a 501c3 non-profit, non-denominational organization that is committed to helping equip churches, international and national leaders, and lay people to fulfill the Great Commission through discipleship and leadership training. GCGDMinistries is a ministry that helps churches world-wide to implement the Global Discipling Ministry System.
Fishnet Publishers is an independent publishing company that supplies GCGDMinistries with the materials necessary to fulfill GCGDMinistries' ministry. In addition, Fishnet Publishing provides other materials to other organization independent from GCGDMinistries.
13. Can I donate things other than money to GCGDMinistries?
 
Yes. GCGDMinistries is just like any other non-profit organization. So anything you have of value can benefit our mission to make disciples around the world.
For any donation you make, GCGDMinistries will provide you a written-receipt for your tax deduction. So, bring those cars, land, and well just about anything that can either be used, or liquidated so that the work can get done.
14. Can I designate where I want my money to go?
 
Absolutely. We need funds for adopting languages and other needs that arise. Please contact our office for current needs and projects that you can provide a donation.
15. Which languages have been translated, are being translated and are still in need to be translated?
 
Spanish is complete in all current books except for the Church Growth Pie. The Church Growth Pie is looking for translators who can help finish its translation by fall of 2009.
Creole is complete for Most Precious and 10 Steps.
Portuguese is complete for 10 Steps.
Italian is complete for Most Precious and 10 Steps.
Poslish is currently being revised.
Russian is currently being revised.
Tegalu (Indian) is in process.
French is TBD.
Chinese is TBD.
Hinde is TBD.
Privilege, privilege, privilege is TBD.

 
           
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