Our Goal

To establish an effective ongoing disciple-making/church planting roundtable in each nation,
supported by regional collaborative gatherings.

Measuring Fruitfulness of Collaboration

You can help measure the fruitfulness of collaboration in your nation.

Find the person, team or organization who tracks the growth of the church in your country or help form such a team.

2. Determine the number of churches in the nation at the end of each year. Divide that number by the population of the country in that year to produce a ratio.

3. Share your work with collaborate2saturate@gmail.com so we can help paint this important picture.

Example of long-term collaboration fruitfulness

While we can’t fully know in advance the fruit of collaboration we can be encouraged by examples of faithful long-term collaboration. Here is an example from SE Asia:

South East Asia is composed of 11 Countries with 1,943 People Groups and 700,820,000 Population

1. Myanmar

Population – 54,850,000
People Group – 192
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
   Number Churches 2015: 18,300 est.
   Population to Church Ratio: 2,664

   Number Churches 2025: 22,000 est.
   Population to Church Ratio: 2,493
   CPM/DMM Churches: Medium.

2. Laos

Population: 7,873,000
People Group: 188
    Frontier People: 94
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
     Number of Churches 2015: 1,100 est.
   Population to Church Ratio: 6,545

     Number of Churches 2025: 2,400 est.
     Population to Church Ratio: 3,280
     CPM/DMM Churches: Medium

3. Vietnam

Population: 101,598,000
People Group: 119
Frontier People: 17
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
Number of Churches 2015: 6,250 est.
Population to Church Ratio: 14,480

Number of Churches 2025: 10,600 est.
Population to Church Ratio: 9,585
DMM Fellowships: Medium

4. Thailand

Population: 71,619,000
People Group: 119
Frontier People: 25
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
      Number of Churches 2015: 5,250 est.
      Population to Church Ratio: 12,819

       Churches 2025: 8,524 est.
       Population to Church Ratio: 8,402
       CPM/DMM Churches: Medium

5. Philippines

Population: 116,786,000
People Group: 206
Frontier People: 9
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
        Number of Churches 2015: 70,000 est.
        Population to Church Ratio: 1,461

        Number Churches 2025: 95,000 est.
        Population to Church Ratio:1,229
        CPM/DMM Churches: Medium

6. Cambodia

Population: 17,847,000
      People Group: 45
      Frontier People: 3
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
       Number of Churches 2015: 3,000 est.
        Population to Church Ratio: 5,300

        Number of Churches 2025: 4,300 est.
        Population to Church Ratio: 4,150
        CPM/DMM Churches: Medium

7. Brunei

Population: 466,000
   People Group: 25
   Frontier People: 5
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
    Number of Churches 2015: 76 est.
   Population to Church Ratio: 5,474

     Number of Churches 2025: 93 est.
     Population to Church Ratio: 5,010
     CPM/DMM churches: Low

8. Malaysia

   Population: 35,631,000
   People Group: 185
   Frontier Peo: 41
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
    Number of Churches 2015: 5,100 est.
     Population to Church Ratio: 5,882

      Number of Churches 2025: 6,800 est.
      Population to Church ratio: 5,240
      CPM/DMM Churches: : Low

9. Singapore

     Population: 5,870,000
     People Group: 50
     Frontier Peo: 7
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
      Churches 2015: 650 est.
       Population to Church ratio: 7,846

Churches 2025: 806 est.
      Population to Church ratio: 7,283
      CPM/DMM Churches: Low

10. Indonesia

Population: 285,721,000
     People Groups: 792
     Frontier People: 104
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
     Number of Churches 2015: 75,000 est.
     Population to Church Ratio: 3,389

     Number of Churches Ratio 2025: 110,000 est.
   Population to Church Ratio: 2,597
   CPM/DMM Churches: High

11. East Timor

Population: 1,418,000
People Groups: 24
PROTESTANT CHURCHES
       Number of Churches 2015: 165 est.
       Population to Church Ratio: 7,317

       Number of Churches 2025: 240 est.
       Population to Church Ratio: 5,908
       CPM/DMM Churches: Low

In 2015 we launched the SEACPN TORCH (Together Organized Reproducible Churches) Movement. Our goal is “To see South East Asia’s 160,000 churches in 2015, double in size to 320,000 by 2020”

South East Asia regional church estimates: There are 260,000 churches in 2025. Despite the global pandemic and other natural disasters. There were 100,000 churches added in 10 years.

South East Asia population has grown by more than 100 million people in the last ten years, our church planting has managed to keep up with the planting of just over 100,000 churches.