About

Paul grew up in 5 different countries – the United States, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and Singapore – and he loved it! His parents were church planters and Paul spent his life watching and learning from them as they made disciples all over the world. As a teenager, Paul remembers seeing his father push through incredible adversity and catalyze a modern Church Planting Movement in India, a movement that resulted in over 80,000 new indigenous churches and over 2 million baptisms!

In 2004, God called Paul into full-time ministry. In the years since then, he has traveled over 200,000 miles training disciple-makers and disciple-making teams for various churches and mission organizations around the world.

After serving as director of Cityteam’s Rescue and Recovery Center in downtown Portland, OR, for three and a half years, Paul felt God challenge him to use Disciple Making Movement processes to help people in the United States and Canada - people who wouldn't normally go to church - fall in love with Jesus, become disciple-makers, and enjoying living in spiritual community. In 2015, Paul left his role at Cityteam to lead Contagious Disciple Making (501c3) (http://www.contagiousdisciplemaking.com) and focus on catalyzing Disciple Making Movements in the United States and Canada.

Paul and his father, David Watson, co-authored Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey of Discovery, which was published by Thomas Nelson in 2014 and has since been translated into five languages. Paul and David also co-authored a case study for Perspectives on The World Christian Movement that was published in the fourth edition of their textbook. Paul is a regular speaker for Perspectives classes throughout the United States.