A movement that began with 1,000 churches and never stopped. Now, a fresh call—to reach every remaining village in India with a life-giving, reproducing church.
In 1992, S. Stephens gathered a group of pastors and issued a challenge: trust God for 1,000 new churches by the year 2,000. When the year ended, over 15,000 churches had been planted. God had done something no one expected.
“And it never stopped.”
Today, more than 135,000 rural churches have been planted across South Asia through a network of 7,800 village church planters. Still, hundreds of villages have no Christian witness.
In 2020, S. Stephens felt God give him a fresh and urgent call; plant a life-giving, reproducing church in every remaining village of India by 2040.
We call it ACHIEVE 2040
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This Isn’t a Program.
It’s a Movement.
Every church is led by someone from within that community. Every leader trained goes on to train others. This is multiplication, not dependency—reproduction, not relief.
INDIGENOUS
Every church is led by an indigenous pastor.
MULTIPLYING
Pastors disciple new believers and train new leaders.
REPRODUCING
Life-giving churches carry the Gospel Forward.
Thousands of villages still have no Christian witness. The call is urgent. The time is now.
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Carry the Gospel
Into Unreached Villages
LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Join us in fueling this movement—helping plant life-giving, reproducing churches in places where the Gospel has never been heard.
