200% R.O.I.!
Dear All,
Tuesday’s Bottom Line:
Most of our team held a very successful DM seminar a couple hours away on Tuesday. Scott flies to Nepal on Thursday, so the whole team will spend Wednesday, their last day all together, debriefing the past couple weeks of ministry and having fun at a local amusement park.
Tuesday’s Prayer Requests:
1. God to continue to guide the new DM groups now beginning to meet; group coaches to lead, communicate, and administrate effectively, and group members to be fully committed to and powerfully impacted by the discipleship process.
2. Grace for our Filipino and U.S. team members to stay strong, healthy, wise, and refreshed as they serve God by raising disciples who make disciples.
3. Safety and wisdom for Scott as he – and his luggage! – travel to Nepal on Thursday.
Tuesday’s Details:
Wilson and Angelica, Daniel and Elsie, and Mark, Whitney, Liam, and Korbin had a full day Tuesday, traveling a couple hours out and back to Nueva Ecija, where they held a “vision casting” DM seminar. As the saying goes, “You’re no success without a successor,” and since these folks have proven themselves more than capable of planning, coordinating, and leading such a seminar, Scott sent them forth and stayed home. = ) They had a great opportunity to introduce Jesus’ discipleship process to a new group of people. Our Filipino team is definitely passionate about expanding outward and influencing more people.
Different team members taught different sessions.
Mark said, “Today the PDMM team did a vision casting in [Nueva Ecija]. Only 12 showed up but all 12 decided to join in the disciple making process.” We all want to do things that really matter and make a difference, and today’s seminar means that the investment of our six people (three ministry couples) yielded 12 new disciples-to-be, which is a 200% return on investment!
Mark said, “Also a pastor came who is excited to be a part and has many connections in a neighboring town. He also had me autograph Scott’s Raising Disciple-Makers book lol even though he knew I wasn’t Scott. It was quite funny. All in all it was exactly what everybody needed, both our team and the local pastors.”
Our team will have a final debriefing meeting on Wednesday and then enjoy some fun time together at nearby Pugo Adventure Park.
Here’s a friendly reminder: Your prayers throughout this trip are going ahead of our team and paving the way for God to use them in influencing others to raise more disciple-makers, and this is not the time to relax spiritually! Mark’s family will still be ministering in the Philippines for another week and-a-half, and Scott is headed to Nepal for a week and then to India for another week, so please don’t stop praying now.
Blessings,
Patty