When it rains…
Dear All,
Tuesday’s Bottom Line:
Pastor Arnel and our team are working on follow-up from last weekend’s meetings where 180 of the 386 attendees registered to join disciple-makers groups. WOW! Our folks will fly out to Cebu on Wednesday for a vision-casting, marriage seminar, and church service. Our first-ever South American group met yesterday(!), and plans are underway for two vision-castings in Morocco next week.
Tuesday’s Prayer Requests:
1. The Holy Spirit to empower and direct the 15 coaches who are now setting up and kicking off DM groups for 180 new people following last weekend’s seminars among the Foursquare pastors.
2. Good attendance at our team’s meetings in Cebu on Thursday and Friday; for the pastors and church leaders who attend to see the need for raising up disciple-makers, understand the cost, and be willing to commit to the process.
3. Those in the new Peru/Columbia DM group to develop close relationships with each other as they work on their lessons and meet for accountability and iron-sharpening-iron discussion each week.
4. Safety for Scott as he travels to Morocco next week; God to guide and energize the vision-casting sessions there and solidify TTC’s ongoing outreach in that nation.
Tuesday’s Details:
Pastor Arnel (“ar-NELL”) is the provincial director of the five divisions of the Foursquare denomination in the province of Pangasinan, an area about the size of Delaware where our Philippines command center is located. Pastor Arnel has been in Scott’s DM group for some time and has been so impacted by the DM process that he wants ALL the Foursquare pastors under his oversight to have the opportunity to experience it. That is why he brought 386 folks to last weekend’s seminars.
Today Scott said, “We spent the morning with Pastor Arnel discussing the new DM groups for the 180 who signed up…
… He agreed to join our monthly meeting to discuss how the groups are going. We also made plans for the next two generations of DM groups. Once the pastors in these new groups have been trained, the Philippine Disciple-Makers Movement (PDMM) will hold vision-castings in cities in each of those five Foursquare divisions so we can expand the PDMM to other churches outside the Foursquare denomination.”
Wednesday, the five pictured above (minus Pastor Arnel) will fly 1.5 hours to Cebu, where they will spend several days investing into local pastors there with a DM vision-casting and a Better Together marriage seminar for ministry couples. All the material in those seminars is totally based on the Bible, so we fully expect things to go well.
In other news, Scott added that the rainy season has started in the Philippines and it’s [raining a lot harder] here than it is here in SW Missouri!
Meanwhile, our first-ever group of native Spanish speakers (although the group is actually being held in English because the two coaches are American) met last night with several people from Peru, two from Columbia, and a student from Venezuela who has a vision to take the Disciple-Makers Movement to his country. They discussed the first lesson, “New Life in Christ!”
Finally, you may have heard on the news that some people certain parts of the world (ahem, Iran) have not been especially happy with the UAE (United Arab Emirates) in recent weeks and have launched drone and missile strikes against that nation. On Sunday and Monday, Scott will be flying from Manila in the Philippines to Dubai in the UAE to Casablanca in Morocco. May there be no unrest or delays as he travels westward!
You might be tired of reading my requests for your PRAYERS, but they are vitally important for all our teams all over the world – and especially for my husband. = ) Thank you very much!
Blessings,
Patty