Church Growth

What is the main task of a pastor? Is it to perform funerals and to officiate weddings? Certainly not! These are certainly duties of a minister but they are not main duties. If your ministry has deteriorated to the point where your main functions are to conduct marriages and bury people, then you need to read your Bible again! The main duty of a minister is to fulfil the Great Commission. Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a medical doctor by profession and the founder of the United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (UD-OLGC). The UD-OLGC comprises over three thousand churches pastored by seasoned ministers, groomed and trained in-house. Bishop Dag Heward-Mills oversees this charismatic group of denominations, which operates in over 90 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Australia, and North and South America. With a ministry spanning over thirty years, Dag Heward-Mills has authored several books with bestsellers including 'The Art of Leadership', 'Loyalty and Disloyalty', and 'The Mega Church'. He is considered to be the largest publishing author in Africa, having had his books translated into over 52 languages with more than 40 million copies in print. The planting of churches is a phenomenon that is widespread among the ministers of the gospel. It was a major activity of the early disciples. Successful church planting demands skill and embraces multiple factors. Dag Heward-Mills, the founder of a worldwide charismatic denomination with over three thousand churches, leads us in analyzing the different components of church building in this series. These are training manuals for any minister who wants to make church planting his vision for life and ministry.