Finding people of peace

Here is a testimony from one of our Honduran team members. This is as current as it gets. This happened in November. This is one of our most effective 2 person cpm coaching teams, 2 Honduran brothers named Jacobo and Adiel. Jacobo is telling this story:


One day in the month of November Jacobo and Adiel were in a village called Cosiris, of San Juan , Department of Intibuca. I, Jacobo, was working on my motorcycle when I noticed a young man named Hector, walking towards me. I left what I was doing and rose up to meet him. Hector was a salesman from a village in the department of Lempira.
I immediately began to talk with him about the Bible studies we do and began to explain to him how they work. I trained him on the spot on how to do the Bible studies with the Megavox. I then gave him a Megavox. After talking to him for a good long time he invited us to his home.
So for two hours we road the motorcycles on horrible, horrible roads until we made it to his village. As soon as we arrived some people rushed out and began to say you guys are sent from God. No one else knew that we had talked to Hector about the Bible studies. A group began to gather and I said would you like to have a Bible study. They said yes. So enough people showed up that we were able to have our first Bible study with them. Twelve people came to the Bible study. We had a really good Bible study. This was how it all begin with them.


This testimony of finding a person of peace (Hector) and beginning a Discovery Bible Study is an example of how God is opening doors in the HCPM project.

Pray for the workers Jacobo and Adiel, the Strategy team, Randy and Keith Travis, and the people of peace (like Hector) as well as the people in this new DSB.

As the Lord leads this Holiday season, consider giving a financial gift to help the HCPM project move forward. Gifts can be sent to:
WME
PO Box 790
Benton, KY
ATTN:
HCPM Project

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

7 Stages of a Disciple Making Movement

In this blog post, I want to introduce the reader to the 7 stages of a developing disciple making movement. Then in my next teaching post on this blog, I want to specifically focus on 1 of the stages that seems to be challenging to many practitioners of the dmm/cpm strategy.   These 7 stages are broad categories that encapsulate several of the Critical Elements of disciple making movements. If you check out several of my older posts from several years ago (especially from the first year of the blog 2008) you will find several blogposts that describe what we call Critical Elements.  (This series of blogposts from 2008 are entitled  "The Critical Elements","Critical Elements of a Church Planting Movement", "Passionate Extraordinary Prayer", "Authority of Scripture and Obedience", "Rain and the Holy Spirit", "Miracles", "The 1:8 Factor", "The Strategic Critical Elements", and finally "The Discipleship E
Read more

The Holy Spirit and Disciple Making Movements

Recently at the Disciple Making Movement leadership meeting in California, one of the main topics that we focused on was the Role of the Holy Spirit.  A key leader from West Africa led the discussion of this topic.  I remember being especially challenged by this study and by interactions with this leader.  He is a special friend who I have known since 2006, and his influence has touched me greatly.  In the last few weeks since the meeting, I have reflected, prayed, and begun to seek the influence of the Holy Spirit more than I had been doing in recent years.  Now I want to share some reflections on the role of the Holy Spirit in Disciple Making Movements (which may or may not reflect the discussions we had in California).  Regardless of where one stands theologically, it cannot be denied that those who focus attention on the Holy Spirit's activity have seen the launching of some of the largest "Movements" in the history of the Church.  Think of the Pentecostal/Charism
Read more

Non-Cessationist Sola Scriptura: The Theology of CPM

I believe in a theological position that I call Non-Cessationist Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura refers to the Reformation doctrine that means "Scripture Alone" and that asserts that the Bible alone, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, are the only inspired Word of God and that they are the sole authority for God's people, flawlessly communicating God's will to mankind. The "Sola" or "Only" part asserts that nothing else does this or has this authority....Not Tradition, Magisterium, Hierarchy, Leaders, or Experiences from whatever source....ONLY SCRIPTURE! Non-Cessationist refers to the concept that God still is active in the world and in the lives of people today in overtly supernatural ways. It says that no activity of God, described in the Bible, has ceased just because that the Bible is now complete. It asserts that all of the gifts, operations, and manifestations of the Holy Spirit described in the Bible may continue to happen to the en
Read more