About

GACX is a global alliance of churches and mission organizations committed to the vision of a healthy, multiplying, and sustainable church for every 1,000 people on Earth. GACX inspires and facilitates the intentional collaboration necessary to achieve this vision by providing a network where member organizations connect with each other and the resources they need for church multiplication.

This collaborative network was established in 2011 when five ministries agreed to work together in church planting. The agreement to work together included sharing lessons learned, identifying priority locations and partnering in them, attending one another’s strategic events, measuring progress in church planting, and inviting other like-minded leaders to join the alliance. 

The five founding members of GACX, a global alliance for church multiplication, were The Timothy Initiative, Dynamic Church Planting International, Global Church Movements, Christ’s Commission Fellowship, and Northland Church. Dr. Bekele Shanko was the first President of GACX and continues in that role today. 

Today more than 110 missions organizations, churches, and national alliances for church multiplication are members of GACX.  Through mutual inspiration and encouragement, intentional collaboration, and generous sharing of resources and strategies, GACX members have collectively planted more than 2.5 million churches worldwide since GACX was founded.

GACX continues to be an alliance of diverse organizations who value unified Christian witness, collaboration across diversity, and effective coordination of gifts and resources for optimum kingdom impact. Churches and organizations that are planting churches come together through GACX, as well as those that specialize in creating tools, developing leaders, mobilizing prayer and doing humanitarian work. They are not necessarily asking, “What can I get out of my GACX membership?” Instead, their primary motivation is to do whatever it takes — both giving and receiving — to help further the kingdom of God.

Moreover, GACX members share similar convictions. As long as Jesus is proclaimed as Lord and King, we value, respect and affirm any church size, expression, tradition and ministry methodology. We are better and stronger together. We are committed to sharing what God has given us because we believe that God’s kingdom is bigger than any one of us. We also know that we can do nothing without the power of God. Therefore, we pray, mobilize others to pray, and take steps of faith toward accomplishing our common goal. 

(Sections of this history were adapted from Never Alone: From Ethiopian Villager to Global Leader by Bekele Shanko. Global Church Movements, 2021.)