In early 2011, Peter was called to plant a multisite church with house churches meeting in multiple locations, cultivating a strong and healthy disciple making culture that will multiply healthy disciples and churches across Yangon. After much prayer and with a deep conviction of God’s call to church planting, he had a clear direction from God in September 2011 to start a new church plant in Hlaingthayar, Yangon.

After much prayer and having received confirmation, Peter and his family moved to Hlaingthayar on September 6, 2011, to plant and grow healthy churches that multiply. They lived and served on personal support and the generous support of ministry partners who shared their God-given vision and believed in their mission. Pursuing God’s calling on their lives, a church planting movement was started from humble beginnings. 

Since then, we adapted our church planting strategy to a multisite church with house churches meeting in multiple locations to engage, equip, and empower every disciple to multiply healthy disciples, churches, and leaders everywhere.

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Start Small, Lead Well, Multiply Everywhere

In June 2009, our founder Rev. Peter T. Mang began serving as an itinerant Evangelist, sharing the gospel with unreached people in remote villages and cities across the Ayeyarwady Region. In September 2011, he transitioned to pursue God’s call to church planting and began planting house churches in Yangon.

When we launched our first church plant in Hlaingtharyar, our attendance grew to a small group of twelve people. We are committed to seeing a church grow and multiply. From a small group of people meeting in a house church and providing family discipleship through weekly Bible study, the movement developed into making disciples who make disciples and planting healthy churches that multiply.

In the first five years from 2011 to 2016, we expanded into seven new locations and started discipleship groups and house churches in each community in Hlaingthayar.

At Agape Church Yangon, we envisioned a healthy church in every community in the Yangon Region. As a biblically independent church with a strong and healthy disciple making culture, we strive to plant and grow healthy churches that multiply healthy disciples, churches, and leaders across Insein.

Myanmar Church Planting Network is a collaborative network committed to accelerating church planting movement in Myanmar. We passionately seek to glorify God by providing gospel access to unreached people groups through the multiplication of healthy disciples, churches, and leaders in every community in Myanmar.

In 2020, we launched Agape Vision 2030 Church Planting Initiative to establish 300 healthy churches among unreached people in Myanmar by the end of 2030.

Launch of Agape Vision 2030

Launched in 2020, the Agape Vision 2030 enacted a strategic vision for the Church Planting Initiative to establish 300 healthy churches among unreached people in Myanmar by the end of 2030.

We passionately seek to glorify God by creating healthy and thriving communities of fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ through multiplying healthy disciples, churches, and leaders in every community in Myanmar.

From 2016 to 2022, Agape Church Plants expanded into new places, multiplying over ten disciple groups and house churches in Insein and Maingalardon.

In January 2023, Rev. Peter T. Mang transitioned from pastoral ministry with Agape Church Yangon to leading a church planting organization with Agape Church Planting.

Agape Vision 2033 is a strategic church planting initiative that aims to establish 300 healthy churches among unreached people in Myanmar by the end of 2033.

In July 2023, we launched the School of Missions and Church Planting in Yangon and Mandalay with a hybrid accelerated option for its Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma in Missions and Church Planting programs.

Agape Vision 2030 is extended to Agape Vision 2033.

We envision a movement of disciples who make disciples, churches that multiply churches, and leaders who develop leaders to accelerate the fulfillment of the Great Commission in our generation.

Our passion is to glorify God by creating healthy and thriving communities of fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ through multiplying healthy disciples, churches, and leaders in every community in Myanmar.

We provide a strategic approach to evangelism, discipleship, church planting, leadership development, mission mobilization, and community development to accelerate church planting among unreached people in Myanmar.

Summary

Agape Church Planting was launched in September 2011 as the initiative of Agape Mission, with the purpose of multiplying healthy disciples, churches, and leaders in every community in Myanmar.

In September 2011, we launched family discipleship through Bible study and started a new discipleship group with two families in Hlaingthayar.

In September 2012, we launched our first church plant with twelve people in Hlaingthayar.

From 2011 to 2016, we expanded into new locations and started seven discipleship groups and house churches in Hlainthayar.

In April 2016, we launched a church planting initiative in Insein to plant healthy churches that multiply.

In February 2019, we formed the Myanmar Church Planting Network with the purpose of strengthening leaders, mobilizing churches, and multiplying churches to accelerate church planting in Myanmar.

In 2020, we launched the Agape Vision 2030 Church Planting Initiative that aims to establish 300 healthy churches among unreached people in Myanmar by the end of 2030.

In 2022, we established the Association of Independent Churches of Myanmar, a voluntary association of independent churches collaborating to accelerate church planting movements in Myanmar.

From 2016 to 2022, we expanded into new locations and started over ten discipleship groups and house churches.

In February 2023, we formed a church planting team comprised of the Board of Directors and the Executive Team of Agape Church Planting.

Agape Vision 2030 was officially launched in February 2023 and has been extended to Agape Vision 2033.

In July 2023, we launched the School of Missions and Church Planting in Yangon and Mandalay with a hybrid accelerated option for its Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma in Missions and Church Planting programs.

As of 2024, we have equipped and developed seven strategic church planters from the Yangon, Mandalay, Naypyidaw, and Sagaing regions.

We expect to train 15 strategic church planters from different parts of Myanmar in 2025.

Join the church planting movement

We are looking for called, qualified, and strategic church planters from across the country.

We intentionally seek to see:

• A healthy pipeline of new church planters across the country.
• New church planters who plant healthy churches that multiply.
• Church planting movements among unreached people groups.
• Healthy churches with a strong and healthy disciple making culture.
• Healthy church plants that become locally sustainable within five years.
• Effective church leadership and administration as part of a new church plant.
• Local or independent churches that value the support provided by associations.

Call: +95 9 252 899 155 or Email: info@agapechurchplanting.org