George Patterson spent 21 years in Central America training pastors to make disciples in a New Testament fashion that rapidly multiplies churches.
In Honduras he began by training pastors in a traditional, resident Bible Institute with poor results. With the advice of more experienced missionaries and much trial and error, he later saw churches multiply through the instrumentality of "Theological Education and Evangelism by Extension" (TEEE). This non-formal pastoral training resulted in twenty years in about 100 new churches in northern Honduras. This is as a result of the Biblical discipleship and church reproduction principles Dr. Patterson implemented. This model is now used with similar results in Asia, Africa and Latin America, as well in the United States, and is distributed as Train & Multiply TM.
George's teaching style relies heavily on student involvement in role-plays and exercises that bring learning to life. He is hilarious and hyper-energetic in the classroom.
Check it these interviews with George Patterson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2xPK4YkwDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEJE25RVEeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdC4hilN75Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxAJrTCyBcw
Today George mentors workers who seriously want to follow New Testament guidelines to sustain church planting movements, many of whom have made significant breakthroughs.
Contact George through Mentor & Multiply (http://www.mentorandmultiply.com/) and People of Yes (http://peopleofyes.com/)
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The late Dr. Ralph Winter described George as "one of the two or three world experts in the growth of the church," and calls his missionary career “legendary."
The work of our team in Erdenet and the planting of Mongolia's first and largest Disciple Making Movement is a testament to the New Testament discoveries of Dr. George Patterson. He trained all of our YWAM team's primary church planters and it was his teaching and article in the course Perspectives on the World Christian Movement that launched my own career into multiplicative church planting. Very little in the content of my trainings over the past 20 years is original --- most of what I teach is simply a echoing of George and what I have learned through putting his "Obedience Oriented Education" into practice among unreached people groups. All of us in YWAM's Frontier Missions look to him as mentor and "Guru George".
I am blessed to count him among my friends!
—Brian Hogan, YWAM Church Planting Coach, Perspectives and mission speaker, Publisher, and author of "There's a Sheep in my Bathtub: Birth of a Mongolian Church Planting Movement", "An A to Z of Near-Death Adventures", and "Boy Centurions".
George Patterson has mentored leaders in many countries who have made breakthroughs leading to widespread church planting movements.
—Galen Currah, DMiss, former adjunct instructor, Western Seminary
George Patterson’s instructive fiction is so true-to-life that when I underlined phrases, it bled.
—John Mulholland, PhD, Colombia Bible Seminary
People love stories. Jesus knew this and so he told stories. Patterson has captured a wonderful way to teach people about church planting. When people learn through stories, it becomes so much easier and more enjoyable and therefore more effective. The principles in it are spot on.
—Pamela Arlund, PhD, director, All Nations
George Patterson is father and mentor to us all. Long a pioneer in church planting and multiplication, both directly and indirectly through thousands of disciples around the world, Brother George is once again pushing the envelope, showing us how the Kingdom is advancing leaving countless transformed lives and discipleship communities in its wake. This time Dr. Patterson has pioneered a new genre in communication: the “training novel.” Who knew this maven of church planting could also write riveting prose? Missionaries, pastors, church planters, and every kind of adventurous Christian will be gripped and blessed by George Patterson’s Come Quickly Dawn! (¡Que Venga El Amanecer!) It is a powerful blend of narrative and wisdom that unpacks the secrets of how God is at work redeeming even the most calloused souls for Christ.
—David Garrison, PhD, missionary author, Church Planting Movements
