222 Church Multiplication Network
Multiplying Disciples by Multiplying Churches
Several Sundays ago, our team went out into the neighboring village to show the “Jesus” film at the local basketball court. Over two hundred people came and more than sixtysouls received Christ! God truly works wonders doesn’t He?
Please pray for those new believers to be plugged into our church and continue to pray for our ministry!
Never underestimate the power of prayer.
Several weeks ago, God sent sixty prayer warriors to our Center. They were truly a sight to see! Never has a group of people prayed as intensely and as passionately as these warriors did. As they began to rise to their knees to worship, it was almost like God heard their pleas and a miracle happened.
Immediately—almost instantaneously—rain began pouring down like never before and the sound rung in our ears like music. The presence of God was truly there that day. Several of those brethren approached me to say that they have never felt God’s presence as they did at our Center. Others testified that God spoke to them about our Center that it was a Lighthouse to the nations. Thank you Lord for sending your prayer warriors!
Several weeks ago, God allowed me, my son, Joe, and our friend Aaron to minister to the Mangyans—a rural tribe in the Mindoro jungle, along with a missionary couple and their two children. Together, we taught the Word of God to the Mangyan churches.
This trip to Mindoro was really a humbling one, and I believe that we were more blessed by the whole experience than the people we ministered to. As we were there, I learned that the typical Mangyan eats only one meal a day. One of the pastors even told me he saw a man eat a rat because of the lack of food! It saddened me to hear of their dismal situation and I couldn’t thank God enough for providing for me. We are praying that God would send someone with knowledge about livelihood projects and health care to help these people improve their standard of living as well as their spiritual well-being. It’s amazing what God can do in unreached places as we preached the Gospel and gave out food. We are praying that God will lead us to partner with our friend, Pastor Jonathan to minister to other unreached villages in Mindoro.
At present, there are ten students accepted for our three-month training program from September 17-December 14, 2018. We know God will fill in the remaining two spots to complete our set number of twelve for this program. The next batch of training will be from mid-February to mid-May, thus enabling us to train twenty-four church planters a year.
These students will begin their church planting project during the first week of training, as well as working full time as a church planter upon graduation. They will commit to planting daughter churches up to the fourth generation in line with the theme of II Timothy 2:2—the foundation of our whole ministry.
We have had an amazing opportunity to partner with Alpha Ministries, who have graciously offered to support all our graduates of half of their needed financial support for up to three years upon graduation. God has blessed this ministry immensely, but we still have a long ways to go. We still need support for the rest of the finances to complete the next three months of their training. We urge you to keep us in prayer during these next few months, and to consider financial support for the training of these church planters.
God bless!
We are so excited to have our fourth mentoring session this Monday, June 25th! God has truly blessed this group, which has now over forty members and growing each month. Although we may belong to different denominations, we are united because of our sole purpose—to help one another multiply churches. Our vision is to see two hundred churches planted by the year 2020! Glory be to God!
