God is building a team in Latin America to help mobilize even more churches and thus missionaries to the field. We have been very intentional about new facilitator training this year. We believe that if we can mobilize more churches, we can send more missionaries! This past week I finished up teaching and preaching the Missions Conference at SETECA Seminary in Guatemala. I was not only able to teach and preach nearly 5 times daily in and in the evenings mentor the Amigos denomination, but also meet with the Guatemalan Baptist Convention and talk about beginning the Global Focus Missional Process with them later in Aug.
We are very excited about this new partnership, as they have already several missionary candidates they would like for us to help send. Luis Marti was able to join me on Friday and Saturday of the conference, and teach, and share his own experience with Global Focus. Luis is becoming a louder voice in our missional movement in Latin America!
On Saturday after teaching all morning until almost noon, I flew back to Atlanta, and then on to Dallas, TX. I was able to preach the Mission Sunday at Lavon Drive Baptist Church in Garland. This church has a great legacy with their founding pastor, Dr. Gary Coleman, and has passed that legacy on to new and visionary leadership to to Robby Green. I was able to teach and preach 3 times last Sunday, and challenge the church more in the direction of what a missional church really is. Their desire is to reach all the nations that God is sovereignly brining into the DFW metroplex area and also the nations on the other side of the world.
