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  • Pastoral Training Manual
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  • SEAN (Chile)
  • Student Progress Chart
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  • Theological basis of T&M
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  • Workshop Workbook
  • About T&M
    Train and Multiply™ (T&M™) is a program of principles and materials that help to multiply churches and cells through training biblically-qualified men the way Jesus and his apostles did it: pastors train newer pastors who lead new groups of believers. Top of page
    Artwork & drawings
    The artwork is intended to help create understanding. New artwork will be drawn for every translation and culture group that requires it. Project WorldReach will insert the artwork and the translation into booklets that are ready to print and send you the masters from which you will make copies for your student pastors. Top of page
    Authors and origin
    T&M was written in Spanish by George Patterson, an American missionary, over several years time to help train poorly-educated pastors of new churches in the mountainous region of Honduras, South America. Since then, T&M has gone into scores of countries and languages, and is used to train pastors of all economic levels who want their churches to grow and multiply. Top of page
    Activity Guide & sample
    The "Student Activity Guide" enables one pastor to train another, by providing a menu of activities, Bible readings, and affordable booklets, that can help new churches to grow through evangelism and raise up new leaders. To obtain a sample Activity Guide, visit the T&M web site. Top of page
    Booklets & samples
    Training booklets are small, short, cheap and written in plain language. A trainer will sell to a student pastor a booklet that he needs now. He will not give all the booklets at the same time. For samples of the guides, manuals and training booklets, visit the T&M web site. Top of page
    Book sellers and stores
    T&M is neither a commercial product nor a publishing project.
    T&M is, above all, a New Testament-based discipline for multiplying churches or cells through leader training.
    When the books are sold to people who are not held accountable to follow the biblical guidelines upon which T&M is based, those who use them fail to see the same results.
    A bookseller who participates in a training program as a T&M Coordinator may sell T&M materials to T&M contract and locense holders who are accountable to that program. Top of page
    Buying T&M books
    No one can buy T&M materials. You must obtain a license and a set of masters from which you will make your own copies to sell to your student pastors. Top of page
    Certification
    No one has to be certified to use T&M. However, those who wish to become certified may be invited to serve as a trainer or consultant to other ministries. There are three levels of certification: (1) Trainer, who trains new pastors and leaders, (2) Coordinator, who administers a CP movement using the T&M program, and (3) Mentor, who presents planning workshop to introduce CP principles and the T&M program to other ministries. To seek certification, see a certified user or download the test. Top of page
    Church Multiplication
    Any church or cell can help a new church or cell get started. When new churches or cells help start others in turn, multiplication happens. However, multiplication can only go as far as churches can train new pastors to lead them. T&M principles and materials, used together, can help that to happen. Top of page
    Churches and Missions
    Both churches and missions use T&M to train pastors or leaders for new churches. However, T&M is not to be used to teach classes of passive listeners, like in a Sunday School. Nor is it to be used with everyone who is interested in learning, lest it be seen as laymen's materials. It is to be used only with elder-quality individuals who are currently starting or leading new churches or cells. Top of page
    Combining T&M books
    While it might be more convenient for secretaries and stockmen to have the booklets bound into one book, that is forbidden for several reasons:
    1. T&M aims primarily to make things convenient for student pastors, not for workers in a central office, although we appreciate the extra work they do.

    2. The separate books must be kept affordable to poor student workers.

    3. Students read pocket-sized books more readily, if they can carry them around easily during the day.

    4. The small books enable both trainers and students to focus on a specific need of a church.

    5. Those who have a big book will fail to use a "menu" approach, because they tend to work through it in the more familiar, linear way.
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    Contact T&M offices
    The main T&M web site is located at http://www.TrainAndMultiply.com
    About contracts and licenses, contact Project WorldReach at PWR@TrainAndMultiply.com
    To arrange for a T&M planning workshop or to have a certified mentor train your trainers, contact DennyGeorge@attbi.com Top of page
    Copying T&M materials
    Only T&M license holders may copy T&M materials. License holders may freely make as many copies of T&M guides, manuals and booklets as they need for all users who are accountable to them. T&M booklets must not be bound into larger books. Top of page
     
    Coordinators
    A T&M coordinator is responsable to keep churches or cells multplying through training in a region, denomination or church association that has a T&M contract and license. Your group can appoint anyone as a coordinator who uses T&M, desires to see churches multiply, and has administrative skills.
    Coordinators can also be certified by the T&M group, by passing an examination and meeting certain other requirements. Certified coordinators may be asked to serve as consultants and trainers to other ministries. Top of page
    Costs and payments
    T&M materials are not for sale. The standard, international license fee is US$250. Payments can be made only to Project WorldReach in Canada. License holders may copy T&M materials in any quantify they need to train workers. License holders may sell the materials to their trainers and students.
    Any person, ministry or store that gives or sells T&M materials to unlicensed persons may be violating local and international laws. Top of page
    Distribution rights
    T&M license holders are free to distribute T&M materials to those whom they train or who are accuntable to them. No one has a right to distribute materials outside the boundaries described in their T&M contract.
    Downloads
    T&M Frequently Asked Question (32 KB).
     
    T&M Training Workshop Manual (206 KB).
     
    To download the T&M documents, visit the T&M site. Top of page
     
    Evangelism & T&M
    Unlike traditional classroom instruction, T&M keeps training in the churches where evangelism becomes an on-going part of the ministry. T&M guides student pastors to help new believers to share the gospel with their families and friends in a never-ending process of starting new churches and cells. Top of page
    Frequently-asked questions
    Click here to read the FAQ. Or download the file. Top of page
    Getting started
    (1) Contact Project WorldReach for sample materials. (2) Arrange with PWR for a translation, if needed. (3) Hold a training and planning workshop with workers who will train new leaders for new churches. (4) By faith, envision and plan where God will start new churches or cells. (5) Appoint a coordinator who will administer the program and unsure that others follow the principles and have on-hand the materials their students need to serve their churches and cells.
    George Patterson
    George Patterson is the original author of the T&M materials, and reviser of the latest edition. He travels the world as a church multiplication consultant and trainer. You can contact him at dennygeorge@attbi.com Top of page
    Languages available
    To find out what languages now have T&M, e-mail to Project WorldReach
    Legal Rights & Restrictions
    Train and Multiply™ and T&M™ are internationally-protected trade marks. All T&M materials, guides, manuals and booklets are copyrighted. It is illegal to buy, sell or copy T&M materials, unless you have a contract and a license from Project WorldReach. If you have a license, or are accoutabile to a license holder, you may make as many copies of the materials as you need to train those who are accountabile to you. Top of page
    License and contracts
    The User/Organizer's license is given to whoever signs the contract with T&M and pays the standard fee. It can be a person, church or training organization. If it is an organization, then it must name a Coordinator who holds other Trainers accountable for proper use of T&M. You can download contract form. Top of page
    Lloyd Niles
    Lloyd Niles, a Canadian, is the director of Project WorldReach, a member of the T&M Group. Top of page
    Mentoring & coaching
    T&M trainers (also called mentors or coaches) do six things in every training session: (1) Pray for the Holy Spirit to give needed wisdom; (2) Listen to the student describe his group's opportunities and needs; (3) Plan with the student what to do with his group next; (4) Listen to the student tell what he learned from his assignments; (5) Give new reading assignments from the Bible and other sources; (6) Pray for the student and for people in his group to grow and to win others. Top of page
    Missionary Manual
    The Missionary Manual provides a complete process for evangelizing and starting churches in unreached regions and people groups, following the principles of T&M. Top of page
    Pastoral training
    T&M does not replace or compete with schools or TEE programs. Rather it is a separate program to help multiply new churches and cells with men and women who meet biblical qualifications. T&M students often become pastors whose churches continue to grow and multiply. Download the Pastoral Trainers Manual. Top of page
    Principles underlying T&M
    Amongst other things, T&M builds upon six biblical convictions: (1) Agree to multiply churches; (2) Build everything of the Lord Jesus Christ and his commands; (3) It is pastors who best train new pastors in 2 TIm. 2:2 disciple chains; (4) Train only those who meet the biblical qualifications as elders and are currently doing the work of ministry; (5) Eliminate all extra-biblical requirements for leaders and churches; (6) Listen to your students before you teach them, and plan with students how they will minister to their group. Top of page
    Printing and reproduction
    T&M contract and license holders may print or copy as many T&M materials as they need. No one may reproduce T&M materials for sale or distribution to non-license holders. Top of page
    Problem solving
    Click here for the T&M Problem Solver. Top of page
    Project WorldReach
    PWR is a member of the T&M Group charged with responsability to (1) issue licenses to T&M users; (2) ensure translation of T&M materials; and (3) provide finished masters for copying to licensed T&M users. Top of page
    Samples for Download
    Visit the T&M web site Top of page
    SEAN (Chile)
    Study by Extension for All Nations is a member of the T&M Group charged with responsability to ensure the educational quality of T&M materials. Top of page
    Selling T&M books
    T&M license holders may sell T&M materials to their trainees. No one else is authorized to sell T&M materials in any form. Do not buy or sell T&M books unless you have a license to use them. Top of page
    Student Progress Chart
    Traners can chart their student pastors' progress using this form. If your students cannot write well, then read it to them and fill in the appropriate parts. Download the chart.
     
     
    T&M Group
    The T&M Group consists of SEAN (educational quality), PWR (production) and George Patterson (author, reviser). This group alone has legal control over T&M materials and will seek to incorporate excellent suggestions from users.

    Theological basis of T&M

    T&M materials are intensely biblical and avoid taking a position on doctrines about which Bible-believing Christians disagree. Groups who use T&M include Baptists, Charismatics, Independants, Lutherans, Orthodox, Pentacostals, Presbyterians, and many others. Top of page
    Training & planning workshops
    A three-day workshop is an excellent way to introduce T&M and to refresh users. Attenders adopt biblical convictions, pray by faith, envision where God wants them to start new churches, draw maps, identify helpers, and practice using the T&M menu system to train new workers. A Worshop Workbook can be downloaded to help you and others to present their own workshops. A certified T&M mentor can also come help your ministry get started. Contact George Patterson. Top of page
    Translating the booklets
    Before you start to translate T&M, contact Project WorldReach. PWR has the sole legal rights to undertake T&M translation projects and is eager to help you. They have special computer tools that can make the work more rapid and accurate. Top of page
    Workshop Manual
    This is a guide for those who hold T&M planning workshops. Download it. Top of page