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A Word from our President Dr. Steve Wilkes:

Merry Christmas!  God has been so good to us!  Already this year we have seen church planting projects successfully completed in several areas of the world.  Most of these have been our normal projects of sending a church planting trainer for several days to train nationals in the fine art of church planting.  Second, we have sent evangelism teams which have won hundreds and hundreds of precious people to Jesus.  We have had projects like this in Mexico, Brazil, Moldova, and The Dominican Republic.

Over the years, there have been times when we could not send evangelism teams to an area because it may have been unsafe or because there were logistical problems with assembling a team.  God has given us a new strategy to deal with these types of situations.  In some areas we are simply sending in a specialist in church planting without sending in the evangelism team as we normally do.  For example, Church Planter Trainer Lyle Seltmann went to Moldova in May to train church planters in Northern, Central, and Southern Moldova.  In Northern Moldova Lyle was met by more than 40 potential church planters.  At the end of the training, these men set a goal of starting 79 brand new churches before this year ends!  We were thrilled since this was the first time we had tried this strategy.

We had another first when Wade Akins accompanied me to the state of Sinaloa in Mexico to conduct a church planting clinic along with his wife Barbara.  During the conference training was provided for about 100 potential church planters.  We met in a wonderful church in Culiacan, Mexico.  Wade and Barbara did a masterful job during the three days of training.  They have done this type of training for many years and their global strategy is all over the world.  We plan to work with them again soon.

Mark Davis who is full-time with WWCP has already led one project this year to the Amazon in NW Brazil.  His team saw about 500 professions of faith and about 3 churches begun.  Mark has also started two other projects working in this same area.  We are praying that they will see a great harvest of souls and at least 10 new churches begin as they work with their national partners.

Mark and I were on the phone recently talking about potential church planting work in a Communist country and in the African nation of Rwanda.  Our goal is to help the nationals and missionaries plant hundreds of new churches in the next decade.  Join with us in prayer, support, and going with us on a project.  Please pray with us that God would give us $2000-3000 for exploratory trips to these new areas.  Write us for more info.  Thanks so much for you interest and support!

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  HOW THE MINISTRY WORKS

World-Wide Church Planters connects with a missionary or a national leader who has a heart to start new churches. After the project plans are set, a church planter trainer goes to the area where the new churches will be started. This trainer must have started or have been involved closely with the starting of at least one new church.The trainer could be a missionary, pastor, or layman. In a very intensive 4-6 day school, he teaches three subjects: personal evangelism, spiritual formation, and church planting.

During the training, the teacher takes the potential church planters out to do direct, personal evangelism.  Taking the church planters on the streets to do evangelism helps them to overcome the fear barrier associated with witnessing.  They learn to share Christ by doing it.  The trainer acts as both a teacher and a mentor to the church planters, sharing from his years of experience in church planting and walking with Christ.

Immediately following the training, a project leader brings in a team of personal soul-winners from churches in the States.  These people have committed themselves to a week of intense evangelism.  They join the individual church planters in the neighborhoods where their churches will be started.  The evangelism teams witness house-to-house, in markets, and at times in the streets.  Normally, there are scores or hundreds of professions of faith as a result of the evangelism. 

Those who come to Christ during the week of evangelism become the core group for the new churches.  When the WWCP  evangelism team leaves, the national leaders and missionaries oversee the new church starts.

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  COULD YOU USE A MISSIONS CONSULTANT?

 

WWCP Vice-President, Mark Davis is currently acting as a consultant in the Pensacola, Florida area helping a number of churches understand how to get involved in overseas ministry.  Others in our organization are available to help you and your church.  Our President, Steve Wilkes and our International Coordinator, Kevin Smith, are also making themselves available as missions consultants.  Neither one of these men requires a salary.  If you think you might be interested in using our years of experience on mission projects around the world, please contact us.  We can help you get involved in what God is doing overseas and also assist you in organizing a mission conference in your church.

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  MISSIONARY TESTIMONIAL

“From among the 2,000 volunteers that have worked among the Quichua Indians in Ecuador in the past 3 years, the church planter trainers and volunteer evangelists from World-Wide Church Planters have led the pack in their evangelistic zeal and practical training.  They come well prepared spiritually and practically, and ready to tackle the task of opening new works in a variety of settings.  They have my support and an open door anytime they can come to work with the Quichua in Ecuador.” [David Butts, IMB-SBC Missionary Strategy Coordinator for Ecuador Quichua National Strategy Group]