A REALLY significant retreat
Dear All,
Thursday’s Bottom Line:
The Pillars Summit on Wednesday was really great (details are below), and our team has a rest and prep day today before they launch into the biggest-ever Raising Disciple-Makers vision-casting this Saturday. Prayers are appreciated for that event, as well as for Friday’s Better Together seminar for ministry marriages, and for Scott’s health as he’s dealing with cold symptoms.
Thursday’s Prayer Requests:
1. God (through our team) to minister significantly to the many Foursquare pastoral couples and soon-to-be disciple-makers who will be at the marriage seminar on Friday and the DM vision-casting on Saturday.
2. Good health for Scott, Pastor Daniel, and Pastors Wilson and Angelica; any assignments of the enemy against them, their bodies, their families, their finances, or their belongings to be ineffectual, in Jesus’ name!
3. Much of our attention is currently focused on the Philippines, but at the same time, Take the Challenge’s Disciple-Makers Movement involves many other people in many other places. So, please also pray for peace and comfort for Pastor Hillary and his family in Kenya. He serves as international director of the disciple-making movement in Africa, and his father suffered a severe stroke several months ago, leaving him paralyzed and bedridden. This week Hillary sent us this message, “This day Monday at around 3pm, it pleased the Lord to promote my dad to glory. Glory to His name.”
Thursday’s Details:
Here’s what Scott and Angelica shared about Wednesday’s Pillars Seminar, an evening and a day of ministry and teaching for those DM group coaches whose disciples are raising disciple-makers.
Scott said, “God is so faithful. We had an amazing time.”
He said, “The two new couples fit in well and the whole PDMM team embraced S and S. [The husband] is planning to get the ‘Raising Disciple-Makers’ book published and to begin distributing it among the pastors there. He also is eyeing a group of pastors and leaders to introduce to the DM process. He was moved and shared his vision to launch the [disciple-makers movement] in his own [closed] country! Our team prayed for them and asked God to raise up [that movement there]…
“… I shared a message with the pillars about how we are to build the church (the bedrock, foundation, coping and living stones). I talked about how the body is knit together by what every joint supplies (love for one another is the mortar). I had Legos on the table and had everyone built their piece together with others to build a temple for God in the Spirit. Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us, but are we providing a place for Him to dwell among us in the Spirit?”
Angelica said, “It was such a relaxing day but we’ve learned a lot from Pastor Scott, specially when he explain about us knit together. Last night also we were able to check our hearts. Pastor Scott shared about the Heart Disease. There is a lot of realization from his teaching last night and today… We were able to minister, prayed and encourage Pastor S and S.”
She continued, “We don’t have a lot of pictures outside. Too bad because it such a beautiful place.” I’ll say! Isn’t this lovely?
Scott said, “It is well. We are on our way home from our overnight meeting with all the pillars here in the Philippines DM Movement. It was a wonderful time bonding together.” I (Patty) can identify six of the people in this picture. Wilson is to the left of My Hero, and Daniel is to the right. Angelica is in front of Wilson who is giving a thumbs-up over her head, and S and S, both wearing glasses, are seated in front.
Thank you for your prayers today, and please don’t stop praying! Our Faithful Four will be reaching even more potential disciple-makers on Friday and Saturday. They already have 15 trained coaches on standby, ready to lead however many new DM groups may be formed this weekend!
Blessings,
Patty