Companion With The Poor Inc.
VISION
A Sustainable Church In Every Slum
MISSION
To Mobilize People To Plant Holistic Churches in the Urban Poor Communities
Our Distinctives
Mission to plant holistic churches
Serving in the poorest urban slums
Working in partnership with local churches
How We Began
1989
It began with International Teams Philippines Inc. Way back in 1989. This was a subsidiary of IT International run by IT USA, IT Canada and IT Australia (founded by Kevin Dyer).
2000
The Philippine group left and joined Mission Ministries Philippines Inc. founded in 1985 by Dr. Stewart De Boer and corrie Acorda De Boer. MMP which was for preschools only created a new department for planting churches in the slums to accommodate the new workers.
2015
A couple of years back it was decided that the name be changed from MMP to Companion With The Poor, Inc. due to overseas immigration and visa limitations for missionaries. The Preschool department retained the corporations MMP. There are now two corporations MMP and CWTP. CWTP is focused on church planting in the slums and MMP on preschools.
2020
From a handful of workers it has grown to more than seventy full time church planters regular and partners. It has planted about 58 churches and today 2020 we can plant at a rate of six churches in the slums annually.
2015
A couple of years back it was decided that the name be changed from MMP to Companion With The Poor, Inc. due to overseas immigration and visa limitations for missionaries. The Preschool department retained the corporations MMP. There are now two corporations MMP and CWTP. CWTP is focused on church planting in the slums and MMP on preschools.
2020
From a handful of workers it has grown to more than seventy full time church planters regular and partners. It has planted about 58 churches and today 2020 we can plant at a rate of six churches in the slums annually.