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!Paul’s mother led him to give his life to Christ at a young age. He was baptized by his father at First Baptist Church, Midland, TX on October 14, 1984. In 2004, God called Paul into full-time ministry. In the years since then, he has traveled over 650,000 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.Paul is a single father with three kiddos - Yahel (22 years), John Paul (19 years) and Keturah (13 years). Yahel is engaged to be married early in 2025. John Paul is in the Oregon Army National Guard and began his studies at the University of Oregon in the fall of 2024. Paul and Keturah live in Beaverton, OR, in a comfy house not too far from Costco, which they frequent often.