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tians crammed the streets of London some had felt that a
major awakening in the UK was at last a possibility.
Many Christians now carried a vision to see a vibrant church
operating in every local community in the UK by the year
2,000. Lynn Green of YWAM, who was closely involved with
this Challenge 2,000 vision, explained:
In some cities church leaders were already working together in
a shared strategy. Against this background a consultation on
church planting was held at the invitation of March for Jesus,
the Evangelical Alliance and the Bible Society. 121
They agreed on a method which had met with success in
the third world. DAWN (Discipling A Whole Nation) was a
strategy to mobilise all the Christian groupings into widespread
church-planting throughout their nation. Planting new
churches, according to church-growth experts, had proved
the most effective method of evangelism in the third world. It
was clearly the way forward for the UK.
The DAWN Congress gathered leaders from 32 denominations
in the UK. These agreed on a target of 20 per cent of the
population attending church by the year 2,000. To achieve
this goal, Christians in the UK would have to plant 20,000
new churches in the space of eight years — a staggering
number.
Some of our own men attended this Congress and submitted
the Jesus Army targets for those eight years. Shortly after,
a DAWN representative spoke to our gathered leadership.
From then on it was all targets, goals, reports and endless
reams of paper! Our plan was to divide up the UK into 24
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