The Team

Paul D. Watson

Paul D. Watson works with CityTeam Ministries and is responsible for developing and implementing strategy for reaching the online generation. Over the last seven years, Paul worked alone and on various teams to develop resources for church planters engaged in Gospel Movements. Paul enjoys using emerging technologies to help distribute training materials around the world. Additionally, Paul has a passion for finding persons of peace through social networking services and sites.

Paul also consults with churches about curriculum development and using technology to build community and reach the online generation.

Paul and his wife, Christi, live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with their two children.

David L. Watson

David Watson serves as the Vice President of Global Church Planting with CityTeam Ministries, San Jose, CA. His primary responsibility is to catalyze Gospel Movements in difficult to reach cities and countries around the world. The primary methodology used is the training of local leaders in evangelism, discipleship, disciple making, church planting, leadership, church planting strategies and church planting movements. God has used the leaders David trained to start over 40,000 churches in the past 15 years, and more than 2 million people have been baptized as a result of God’s moving in the areas where trained local workers have devoted themselves to God’s work.

David and his wife, Jan, were married in 1973. They served as Church Planters and Strategy Coordinators for the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention from October 1985 to March 1999. They have lived and worked in Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Asia, Singapore, and the United States of America. Prior to joining the International Mission Board, David and Jan served as missionaries working with hearing impaired people in Texas. David has also served in pastoral roles in seven churches as Minister to the Deaf, Associate Pastor, or Senior Pastor.

David and Jan have been involved in unreached people work since 1986. They are among the pioneers of the non-residential missionary movement, strategy coordinator methodologies, and the focus on the unreached peoples of the world. They continue their personal involvement in this ministry and church planting.

David also does consulting work with churches and mission agencies involved in difficult to reach areas around the world. He has been involved in developing strategies and training personnel for Central and South America, West Africa, East Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and North America. David has conducted training in fifty-five countries around the world. Church Planters and administrators from more than one hundred twenty countries have attended his training sessions.

Joe Hernandez

Joe Hernandez is Vice President of North American Church Planting, CityTeam Ministries/New Generations, San Jose, California since Fall 2006.

His early ministry was among university students and his primary activity was student evangelism, Bible study and discipleship. While in his first student ministry assignment, he started his first church with the help of a group of students. It was also in this first assignment, that Joe felt God leading him to prepare himself for the task of equipping church planters.

This leading took him on to further education and while doing his Master of Divinity work at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, he met his wife, Elizabeth who was also a fellow M.Div. student. This continual effort of preparing him for equipping others led him to complete his Ph.D. at SWBTS in the area of Missions. While he was in seminary, he also continued in church planting efforts.

His interest in equipping church planters was the reason that the Home Mission Board, SBC choose him in 1981 to lead out in the development of what was called Ethnic Leadership Development, now called Contextual Leadership Development. This equipping effort which still continues today has been the primary avenue for equipping ethnic leaders for church planting and has been one of the most important tactics for church planting and church growth.

During his tenure in the Home Mission Board, Joe was asked by the Administration to serve as the Interim Director of the Home Mission Board work in the Caribbean. Serving in this two year role, he reorganized the entire missions work for the area.

After this assignment, Joe served as Assistant Vice President for Church Extension (church planting) and while in this role he led in strategy development and in the development of the Church Planting System, now called Church Planting Process, which provides for the equipping of church planters and those that work with church planters. This process still continues being the primary enlistment, equipping and nurturing system for Southern Baptist church planters and churches throughout North America.

He continues in church planting by facilitating Church Planting Movements in North America in order to reduce LOSTNESS by envisioning, strategizing, equipping and nurturing others.