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Church Planting Movements Fund
Between Bible access and thriving churches, a gap still remains. This fund exists to close it—supporting leaders who are multiplying churches across spiritually underserved regions in efficient, cost effective ways.
Church Planting Movements Fund
Between Bible access and thriving churches, a gap still remains. This fund exists to close it—supporting leaders who are multiplying churches across spiritually underserved regions in efficient, cost effective ways.
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We’d love to walk you through the strategy behind the fund. Join us for a next-step conversation designed for prospective givers who believe addressing structural hunger is one of the most powerful ways to break the cycle of poverty.
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The Strategy in a Nutshell
The Problem
The Church Planting Gap
The Solution
The Church Planting Gap
Read on to find out how.
MATTHEW 24:14
“The gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations…”
The Problem: The Church Planting Gap
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Millions now have access to the Word of God in their own language for the first time. But access alone does not complete the mission.
In many places where Scripture is newly available, there are still too few trained leaders, too few healthy churches, and too few discipleship pathways to help communities take root and share with others.
The result is what many mission leaders now describe as the Church Planting Gap.
Entire regions may have Scripture access but lack the local church structures needed to nurture faith, disciple believers, and sustain gospel communities for generations.
Closing that gap requires more than isolated projects.
It requires coordinated movements of church planting, leadership development, and discipleship networks working together.
Mapping Hunger
673 million people—8.2% of the world’s population—are undernourished.
Of those, 295 million face acute hunger driven by war, drought, and economic collapse. But 378 million suffer from structural hunger — caused by low agricultural productivity, broken supply chains, and low purchasing power. This SWGP Fund focuses on structural hunger — the systemically solvable portion of the crisis.
*According to the World Food Program.
BY THE NUMBERS
The Strategic Starting Point: Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the epicenter, with 173 million people, ~13% of its population, facing structural hunger. Here, the greatest need intersects with the greatest long-term opportunity.
This is our starting point. The solution to Africa’s hunger problem lies within the very soil of the continent itself. Africa holds 60% of the world’s remaining arable land, yet imports $50bn of food annually and only exports 4% of the global food supply – imported food costs more and devalues currencies. The SWGP Hunger Fund exists to strengthen the supply chains within the continent, ensuring every consumer can consume healthy food at affordable prices.
The Solution: Catalyzing
Church Planting Movements
Rather than funding isolated church plants, this fund focuses on movement-level strategies—approaches that help churches reproduce rapidly through local leadership and relational discipleship.
In a world of over 1.8 million non profits (450x more than the number of publicly traded companies), how do we help identify the best in class ministries and see them work together, efficiently and effectively.
Removing redundancy, coordinated strategies across different regions. So we can do this efficiently and effectively. Through the early stages of pilot projects we’re seeing costs come down from thousands of dollars to hundreds of dollars to plant churches in emerging areas of the world.
The fund supports three core areas:
1. Church Multiplication – Investing in networks that plant churches that plant churches—creating sustainable growth through local leadership.
2. Leadership Development – Training pastors, evangelists, and community leaders who can shepherd new believers and guide emerging congregations.
3. Discipleship Pathways – Helping new believers grow in faith through small groups, mentorship, and community-based discipleship.
These strategies have already proven effective in many parts of the world, where church planting movements have led to thousands of new churches forming within a single generation.
With the understanding that many places (some believe roughly half the world) still lack access to a local Gospel church, the overarching goals we’re aiming for include:
1
Planting 3 million Churches.
2
Church in every village in 10 countries by 2033.
3
Church in every village globally by 2050.
and Efficiency
The Church Planting Movements Fund builds directly on the collaboration already underway through other SWGP initiatives.
Efforts in Bible Translation have helped ensure Scripture is reaching people in their own language. Initiatives focused on Bible Access and Engagement are helping people encounter and interact with God’s Word.
The next step is helping communities form around that Word.
Healthy churches become the place where Scripture is taught, disciples are formed, and the gospel spreads naturally through relationships. 5 leading ministries (e3Partners, The Timothy Initiative, New Covenant Missions, East West, Team Expansion) are coming together in partnership 25+ Global Members to align these efforts. We move from translation… to access… to engagement… to living communities of faith.
Winning is not measured by buildings.
Winning is measured by multiplying disciples and thriving local churches.
This fund seeks to see:
- New churches planted in communities where none previously existed
- Local leaders trained and equipped for long-term ministry
- Discipleship communities that multiply across regions and generations
- Sustainable church networks rooted in Scripture and local leadership
- Doing this faster, better and cheaper than how it’s been done before.
When churches multiply, the gospel spreads through everyday relationships—family to family, village to village, generation to generation.
The Power of Building, Investing and Giving Together
The Solving Structural
Hunger Fund
SWGP Giving Funds unite world-class portfolio management with the Faith Driven content and community you trust—transforming generosity into impact.
God calls us to radical generosity—not obligation, not guilt, but an invitation to the joy-filled adventure.
You want to give. You want to rally around a cause that matters. But most of us don’t have the time or network to evaluate thousands of ministries or strategies.
That’s why we are building collaborative giving funds—uniting community, expertise, and capital to pursue solutions together.
The Church Planting Movements Fund invites you to participate in one of the most strategic opportunities in global mission today: helping new communities of believers form where the gospel is just beginning to take root.
Because when churches multiply, the gospel doesn’t just arrive in a place.
It stays, grows, and transforms communities for generations.
Investment Committee
We feel humbled by the opportunity to support this movement behind the scenes.
This Leadership Team has a unique combination of proven scale in Content, Community and Funds.
Transfer From Your DAF
The SWGP Giving Funds will be hosted through a Donor Advised Fund (DAF). Contributions can be made directly or from an existing Donor Advised Fund at trusted partners like:
Each Community has many tools…
Content
Stories, Podcasts, and Problem Pages to multiply reach.
Community
SWGP Foundation Groups and Masterclass series to grow deeper and engage with others as the movement expands.
SWGP Giving Funds
Donor Advised Funds in collaboration with a Board of Directors of seasoned investors and givers.