But the church planting ministry gained real momentum only after 1974. Basically, the ECI and its founding organisation, the OMS have always had a clear vision and objective, as to their strategy and modus operandi in training national leaders, equipping them in the ministry and sending them to responsive peoples to plant churches. This is very much the secret of the success of the ECI ministry. Our workers just do not confine to street-corner preaching, handing out a tract here and a tract there, or have relief and development projects just for the sake of it. They go all the way out, not only in proclaiming the message, but in following up the prospective enquirers to the extent that a new group of believers emerge and churches are planted.
Plant is the slogan.
Obeying the great commission in its entirety, results in the birth and proliferation of churches. ECI does not depend on other Bible training institutes to train pastors for them. They train their own leaders. With a close-knit program between the church and the seminary, the students are closely watched, disciplined and made to fit into the ECI mould. The students who do not like to be part of the ECI program, leave sooner or later.