“God is doing something in my heart that He has never done before, I am thinking and considering going to unreached people groups for the first time in my life…” ” I feel God calling me to His Mission in Southeast Asia”…” “Now I understand why God saved me from a life of drug addiction, in order to start a missional project right here in Lima working with drug addicts and leading them to Jesus…” “I want to take my first missions trip to Central Asia…”
These are some of the several quotes by leaders of the 2 churches I mentored this weekend in Lima, Peru. I spent 20 hours teaching the leadership of Bible Baptist and Bread of Life Church through the 2nd and 3rd modules of Global Focus. These churches are in the process of aligning their churches around the original purpose of the church; His Mission, local and global.
And now start to build a structure that intentionally and strategically tries to reach their own Jerusalem all the way to the Ends of the Earth. Both pastors are thrilled as they see their own leaders as the lights started to come on and start to think of how they can live missionally locally and around the world. They have realized that their own local church is in reality a missions force for the Kingdom of God!
Not only did I spend time teaching and mentoring these 2 churches, I was also able to meet with David and Elizabeth Flynn from the Center for Missions Mobilization, and the Latin American Perspectives course
We had a great time discussing mobilization strategies and were very enthused to see not only the churches in Lima participation in missions, but their pastors! They were also able to meet several of Connect Global’s future candidates to the unreached. One is called to Southeast Asia, one to the Middle East, and 2 to Central Asia. Please pray for these future candidates as they prepare themselves, and God prepares their church to send them to the field. Latin America is truly an emerging missions force, and Global Focus is helping churches embrace that reality!