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Not every people and place has a church
A church within reach of every person on Earth by 2050
“The gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations…”
Matthew 24:14Let’s chat
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 a thriving local church should be within reach of every person on earth.
We’ve made historic progress in Bible translation and Gospel access. But access alone was never the finish line: billions still live beyond the reach of a thriving local church.
We’ve made historic progress in Bible translation and Gospel access. But access alone was never the finish line. He commanded us to make disciples and establish His Church among every people on earth. Billions still live beyond the reach of a thriving local church.
Entire villages, neighborhoods, and people groups still have no consistent shepherding leadership and community of believers regularly gathering together. The result is fragile movements, isolated believers, and communities without a durable expression of the Body of Christ. And planting a church is only the beginning: without rooted leadership and reproducing systems, even genuine movements can fade within a generation, leaving the same gap behind them.
But the future of missions is changing. It is becoming decentralized and multiplying. Empowered local leaders will drive the next great era of Gospel expansion. And for the first time in history, a church in every village is no longer impossible. It’s mappable. It’s measurable. It’s achievable.
The local church remains the most scalable distribution network for hope in the world. Healthy churches become centers of discipleship, spiritual formation, service, entrepreneurship, reconciliation, and long-term flourishing. They are not simply places people attend. They are Kingdom outposts bringing salt and light into every corner of society.
But this vision will not be accomplished through isolated efforts alone. It will require coordinated movements working together at unprecedented scale. The goal is not simply more decisions. It is a thriving church within reach of every person on earth.
4 Million Churches and a Church in Every Village by 2050
Nearly 40% of the world’s population, over 3 billion people, live in unreached places, yet only a fraction of global Christian giving is directed toward reaching them. For the first time in history, that can change:
A church in every village is no longer just an aspiration. It’s mappable. It’s measurable. It’s achievable.
A coalition of 30+ organizations is working together around three strategic priorities: aligning data, leadership, and church planting efforts to accelerate Gospel access and church multiplication at unprecedented scale.
Through deep collaboration and shared intelligence, these organizations are combining data and field insights to build the most comprehensive effort in the history of the global Church, identifying where coordinated action is needed most. It answers the question every church planter eventually asks: where do we go next?
This initiative is focused on accelerating church planting movements across key regions by training pastors, evangelists, disciple-makers, and local leaders.
The long-term vision is to catalyze multiplying churches globally through sustainable, locally led church planting movements. These are not isolated churches, but reproducing networks of churches that plant churches, creating exponential multiplication.
When churches multiply, the gospel doesn’t just arrive in a place. It stays, grows, and transforms communities for generations.
Collaboration, not competition
Through advances in mapping, collaboration, data, and movement strategy, 30+ organizations are working together to identify where the Church exists, where it doesn’t, and where coordinated efforts are needed most. Instead of duplicating efforts or guessing where to plant next, ministries are aligning around a shared map: directing leaders, prayer, and capital toward the fields most ready for harvest.
What once felt impossible can now be pursued with greater clarity, accountability, and scale.
That’s why this fund is built around collaboration, not competition. The Church Planting Movements Fund supports leading organizations that are working together: aligning strategies, sharing intelligence, reducing duplication, and accelerating collective impact across regions and people groups.
Instead of fragmented efforts operating independently, this model helps create coordinated movements capable of multiplying churches faster, healthier, and more sustainably.
Because the local church remains the most scalable distribution network for hope in the world. When healthy churches take root, communities change. The Gospel becomes local. Disciples are formed. Leaders emerge. Families strengthen. Compassion expands. Entire villages gain a lasting expression of the Body of Christ capable of serving and transforming future generations. Every church planted through this fund is built to last: locally led, indigenous, and reproducing. They outlast their planters, raise up their own shepherds, and bear fruit for generations.
Align best-in-class ministries: reducing redundancy, coordinating strategies across regions, and increasing collective effectiveness.
Direct leaders, prayer, and capital toward the fields most ready for harvest, guided by a shared map of the global Church.
Plant churches built to last: locally led, indigenous, and reproducing networks of churches that plant churches.
Not buildings, but multiplying disciples, transformed lives, and thriving local churches.
A church in every village across 10 nations by 2033, by training pastors, evangelists, disciple-makers, and local leaders.
3 million churches and a church in every village by 2050, through sustainable, locally led church planting movements.
Building on momentum: under $500 to start a church
The Church Planting Movements Fund builds on more than a decade of growing collaboration across the global church planting ecosystem. What began as strategic partnership and shared experimentation has evolved into a coordinated movement focused on accelerating Gospel access and church multiplication worldwide.
Over the past several years, nearly $8-10 million annually has been deployed collaboratively into pilot projects, movement strategies, and shared initiatives designed to increase effectiveness, reduce duplication, and strengthen long-term multiplication efforts. Today, leading ministries, including e3 Partners, The Timothy Initiative, New Covenant Missions, East-West, and Team Expansion, are working together to accelerate this vision while inviting an expanding coalition of global partners into deeper alignment and collaboration. The fund backs work that moves the global Church:
→ to coordinated movements
Ministries aligning around a shared map instead of duplicating or guessing
→ to reproducing networks
Churches that plant churches, creating exponential multiplication
→ to staying
A Gospel that stays, grows, and transforms communities for generations
The result is a new level of speed, coordination, and efficiency. By sharing strategies, infrastructure, training models, and field intelligence, these movements are increasingly able to operate faster, better, and more cost effectively: in some regions helping catalyze new churches for less than $500 while maintaining a strong focus on leadership and long-term multiplication.
Through early collaboration, we are already seeing increased efficiency: reducing the cost of planting churches from thousands of dollars to hundreds in emerging regions. When churches multiply, the gospel spreads through everyday relationships: family to family, village to village, generation to generation.
The Church Planting Movements Fund has no publicly named allocations yet: initial deployments are in diligence across the coalition’s three strategic priorities, alongside leading ministries already working together, including e3 Partners, The Timothy Initiative, New Covenant Missions, East-West, and Team Expansion. Members of each fund receive quarterly reports and updates, providing visibility into the progress and activities of the fund.
Global Church Mapping
Combining data and field insights from 30+ organizations to identify where the Church exists, where it doesn’t, and where coordinated action is needed most. It answers the question every church planter eventually asks: where do we go next?
A Church in Every Village Across 10 Nations by 2033
Accelerating church planting movements across key regions by training pastors, evangelists, disciple-makers, and local leaders.
4 Million Churches and a Church in Every Village by 2050
Catalyzing multiplying churches globally through sustainable, locally led church planting movements: not isolated churches, but reproducing networks of churches that plant churches, creating exponential multiplication.
When churches multiply, the gospel spreads through everyday relationships: family to family, village to village, generation to generation.
A giver’s story
Brad Kahler’s story is on the way. Why he gives toward church multiplication, and what he has seen it do.
The Church Planting Movements 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. When you’ve been rescued you want to rescue others, this is your moment.
You want to give. You want to find that cause to rally around. But we don’t have the time or tribe to be intentional.
Busy lives don’t leave room to analyze every investment or vet every charity. We’re overwhelmed, pulled in a hundred directions: wallets clenched, hearts tugged, minds skeptical. Deep down, we know there has to be a better way. That’s why we’re building collaborative giving funds, uniting content, community, and tools that make it possible to do more, 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.
We are committed to excellence and transparency, which is why we engage independent third-party organizations, including Calvin Edwards & Company, All Access International, and Brightlight Impact, to evaluate our work. Every two years, each fund undergoes an external review made available to prospective donors and partners. This review outlines the fund’s theory of change, portfolio analysis, governance, operations, and grantmaking practices. It also reviews investment activity and verifies the accuracy of reporting, ensuring donors can give with confidence and clarity.
Investment Committee
Solving the World’s Greatest Problems Leadership Team
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 Solving the World’s Greatest Problems 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:
Behind every fund is a group of people who decided that caring wasn’t enough. You want to give and a cause to rally around, but busy lives don’t leave much room to be intentional. No one was built to do this alone. This is where you find your people, and where generosity becomes something you do together.
A free, five-session course to find your why, discern your where, and build a plan for how you, your family, or your business will give. No cost. No catch.
Start the CourseLive, 90-minute Fund Premier Events, one problem at a time, with the entrepreneurs, investors, and ministry leaders already in the fight. Come to learn and feel free to bring a few friends.
See Upcoming EventsPartner Summits are invitation-only gatherings for Champions and Partners: about 50 to 60 givers, fund managers, and problem solvers in one room for deeper relationships and real collaboration.
Explore In-Person EventsA growing community of families and organizations is already giving together. There’s a place in it for you.
Become a MemberFollow the fund. See what your generosity is changing.
One email when it matters: new deployments, measured results from the coalition of ministries the fund supports, and stories of new churches taking root. No noise, ever.
