| Dear All, Friday’s Bottom Line: Scott started his first Raising Disciple-Makers (RDM) seminar today, and he’s eager for the attendees to return on Saturday morning for the remaining sessions. Physically he’s gradually feeling better. = ) Friday’s Prayer Requests: 1. Those who were so strongly impacted by the “why’s” of disciple-making on Day #1 to be ready at 8:00 AM on Day #2 to learn the “how-to’s.” 2. The attendees – especially the pastors – who are ready to apply the DM principles in their lives and ministries to sign up on Saturday to join a DM group. 3. Complete healing for Scott – good sleep each night, jet lag to subside, cold symptoms to cease. Friday’s Details: First, a note of clarification: As some of you know, Scott’s passion is to effectively disciple people in general and pastors in particular, and train each of them to raise up disciple-makers. On his mission trips, in each location he typically holds a discipleship seminar that is about six hours long and is ideally spread over two days. That’s his Raising Disciple-Makers (RDM) seminar, which we often shorten to Disciple-Makers (DM) seminar. In these updates, I may use RDM and DM interchangeably; they are one and the same. = ) Scott sent me an audio update today, and although I could tell from his voice that he’s not yet feeling quite 100%, we’re both thankful that he is getting better following exposure to whatever germ our grandkids in Hong Kong generously shared with him. He’s expecting that a good night’s sleep tonight – plus all our prayers! – will speed his recovery. The Philippines is 13 hours ahead of Missouri, so while it’s 12:45 PM Friday here at home, it’s 1:45 AM Saturday in Tombod, Philippines. 29 folks, including 7 senior pastors, came for the first day of his DM seminar. The pastors in particular said they’d never heard anything like this. They realized that they’ve been planting “tomatoes” (that have to be re-planted each year in order to produce any fruit) instead of “trees” (that once established bear fruit on their own year-after-year). Scott asked us to pray for those who really want to move forward in disciple-making to come for Saturday morning’s Day #2 sessions (7:00-11:00 PM Friday MO time) and then sign up to join a DM group. Disciple-making isn’t learned by merely being taught; to become an effective disciple-maker, one must experience the process personally over a period of months. Even during his seminars, Scott has the participants break into groups at the end of each hour-long session to discuss what they just heard and how they can apply it.  Discussion group today between sessionsIn future updates, I’ll give you some background on where Scott is currently, where he’ll be ministering in the coming days, and what the situations are in those places. In the meantime, although there have been a few hiccups at the beginning of this trip, we know that our enemy cannot and will not thwart God’s plans for these next two weeks of ministry!Scott and I both very much appreciate your prayers today for him and those he’s with. Blessings, Patty |
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