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Thank you so much for your continued prayer and support. As 2011 comes to an end, we reflect on this great year of BREAKTHROUGH and look forward to 2012 being a year of VICTORY! This is your last chance to make your tax deductible donations for 2011! Any and all gifts are appreciated! You can send a check to: World Missions & Evangelism PO Box 790 Benton, KY 42025 OR Simply click the donate button and give using your credit card or Paypal account! IT'S THAT EASY! Just make sure that all checks are postmarked on or before December 31, 2011. Thank you again for all that you do! May you and your family be blessed exceedingly, abundantly, above all that you ask or think!

I hope that all is well with you and your family this Christmas season. I know this time of year can get hectic. Whether you're stuck in traffic on the way to grandma's house, having the whole family over to your house, or wondering where to start on the kid's extensive Christmas list, try not to forget the reason we celebrate this time of year! JESUS THE SAVIOR IS BORN! This year while you are in the mindset of giving, do not forget to give to the one who was born for the sins of the world! He came to this world so that we could know God and have eternal life! His mission is our mission! Can you give a donation this Christmas to give the best gift to Jesus? Your gift will help us to minister to the lost in Honduras. You can give online by clicking theMake A Donation button or by check to: World Missions & EvangelismPO Box 790 Benton, KY 42025 Please Give This Christmas! Blessings, David Parish From Breakthrough to Victory! This year has been a remarkable year for the K

"Charity begins at home." Sir Thomas Browne, 1642 "You shall be My witnesses BOTH in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth." Jesus Christ, 30 AD A phrase that I have heard many times in my life is, "Charity begins at home." It is uncertain where this quotation came from (although a form of it is attributed to Sir Thomas Browne, an English doctor, from 1642). However this phrase has become popular and when I did a google search for the meaning of this phrase, I found the following: "You should take care of family and people close to you before you worry about helping others. I don't think our church should worry so much about a foreign relief fund when there are people in need right here in our city. Charity begins at home. If you really want to make the world a better place, start by being polite to your sister. Charity begins at home." I find that this is the meaning of the phrase in common under

Dear readers of the WME blog: I want to thank you for the time you take to read the articles that are posted here and for your prayers and support for the Honduran Church Planting Movement Project. In this post, I want to share with you several new features that we have on the blog. In addition to the articles (This is the 141st post since we started in 2008), there are a number of new features. First: VIDEOS A number of new videos are on the blog. If you will look to the immediate right of this post you will see a video called " A Church Planting Movement is Beginning in Honduras". This video is a brief summary of what is happening and that is probably where everyone should start. Then if you scroll down and look at the right hand side of the blog, you will find 7 new videos that explain the CPM strategy in Honduras in depth, and give pictures and information about the project. By watching the initial video at the top of our page and then these 7 short videos (most of them

One of the hardest things for us to get used to is the fact that God's work, God's Kingdom, advances as a process and not an event. We are very "event" oriented. We want 1 big breakthrough, 1 big service, or 1 big revival that saves the whole nation. While God can do anything, He rarely works that way. The Israelites crossed the Red Sea in a day, but there was still a 40 year process to get to Canaan (although it was only supposed to be a 2 year process!). When Elijah confronted the prophets of baal on Mount Carmel, he had a miraculous event. Fire fell, the people shouted that Yahweh was God, and in a little while, the rain came! But in the next chapter (1 Kings 19) Elijah is depressed, running from Jezebel, and praying to die! Because he found out that 1 event, no matter how great, won't get the job done! It took the rest of his own ministry, the ministry of his successor Elisha over a 40 year period, the kingship of Jehu, years later, and the judgement work of t

PRAISE REPORTS AND PRAYER REQUESTS Psalm 126:2Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them." This scripture seems appropriate today. God is truly doing amazing things in Honduras! Our hearts are filled with joy and thanksgiving to God for what He is doing. A Church Planting Movement has begun. God birthed a vision for a church planting movement in Honduras in our hearts in 2006. After nearly 2 years of preparation, the Honduras Church Planting Movement Project was launched in mid-2008. The 3 and ½ years since then have been times of hard work, sacrifice and even persecution. There have been surges forward and setbacks! But to summarize here, we are defining a Church Planting Movement as a rapidly reproducing movement of churches planting churches within a people or population. This is measured in different ways, but the definition that we are using is at least 100 churches, 3

Jesus is the greatest leader in history. He is God in the flesh and He humbled himself to die for us. One of the most powerful scriptures in the Bible is Philippians 2: 5-11. Here it is: 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Over 10 years ago, I preached a sermon at the church I pastored that impacted a number of people. I have preached that

In 2008, when I started this blog, I wrote a timeline of the launch of the project. I am reproducing part of that blog here and have added to make it up to date. Breakthrough is happening, but here is a story of the road to breakthrough. God is doing a wonderful work, and any progress is only to His glory and power. We have done a lot of trial and error in the last few years, but the Lord of the harvest has been working His plan all along, through, with and sometimes in spite of us! Here is a timeline of what has been done to launch this project. September 2006: David Parish and Randy Travis take intensive training in C.P.M. principles from David Watson in Dallas. The H.C.P.M. concept is born. October 2006: Randy does research on C.P.M. principles. November-December 2006: Randy Travis, Keith Travis and Richard Crowder make exploratory trip to Honduras to assess the need and geographical place for H.C.P.M. project. January 2007: Randy develops initial strategic plan and presents it to D

This year, 2011, WME has set the phrase "MOVING FORWARD" as its theme. The Lord impressed this to my mind, I believe, very strongly and I wrote about it in the first blog note of this year. It is hard to believe that the year is now drawing toward a close. Can it really be just a couple of weeks till Thanksgiving? And Christmas and the New Year is just around the corner. And as the year is winding down, we are getting amazing reports from the Honduras Church Planting Movement Project. We have called this the year of "Moving Forward", but all I can say right now is "God is Moving" and praise Him for all that He is doing. This month we are doing an assessment of what has happened this year and will be reporting some wonderful things on this blog before year end. But as an example, let's just talk about what happened yesterday! On the home front, I shared about the work at one of our partnering churches, and more than 20 people signed up to be a part of

I want to take this opportunity to thank you, the readers of this blog, the prayer team for the Honduras Project, and the Financial Supporters of WME . Without you our missionaries and church planting team members could not be taking the gospel of Christ forward into the World. And to show our gratitude, WME wants to be a blessing to you, our faithful supporters. First of all, let me suggest some ways that WME can be a resource to you or your church. If you do not already receive it, WME puts out a special print newsletter and also a news e-mail letter every other month. This newsletter allows readers to get reports and information about what is happening on the mission field. We also have a special prayer guide that we can mail to you to help focus prayer for the work in Honduras, and we send weekly updates by email each week. If you have not already signed up to receive the e-letter, and be a part of the prayer team, you can join by sending an email to dparish9@cs.com and askin

I love the early fall of the year. The trees are becoming beautiful, but not yet bare. It is cooler, but the cold of winter has not come. Each fall, usually in October, my wife and I take a weekend to travel to the Chattanooga Tennessee area, where we went to college, met, and lived for a few months after our marriage, 28 years ago. This little weekend is a tradition that we have been keeping for nearly 15 years. Of course, my personal thing is to hit all the bookstores in the area that I know of! Last weekend was our annual pilgrimage. I found a great book called "Thirty Years That Changed The World" by Michael Green, scholar from Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. The book is a study of the book of Acts and rather than being a commentary, it is a study of how the early church, from Pentecost till the burning of Rome (which Green puts as 33-64 AD), saw the new faith, which we call Christianity in our day, reached almost the whole known world. The book examines early church methods and c

For many years I was a student of revival. It started in the late 1980's when I read a biography of George Whitfield, the great evangelist of the first Great Awakening in the early 1700's. After that, in the early 1990's, my home church experienced a distinct move of God and we called that "revival" and it definitely sent me back to my study to understand and try to experience a real revival. When I was doing a seminary degree approximately 10 years ago, I was privileged to take a class on Revival, and I think it was my favorite class in the whole program. Our text books were the writings of key revival leaders such as Jonathan Edwards, Charles Finney , and Frank Bartleman (1st Great Awakening, 2 nd Great Awakening, Azusa Street Revival). There is a close relationship between Revival and Mission. Both are concerned with the advance of the Kingdom of God. Both can and do result in people coming to faith in Christ and lives being transformed, and even societal t

We are excited to announce that you can now donate online to the Honduras Church Planting Movement. Just use the paypal button that is on the blogspot page and you can securely give to help the work that is multiplying in Honduras or other ministries of World Missions and Evangelism. Several of WME's supporters have been asking for the opportunity to give online and we are excited to have this opportunity available. Just navigate to WME's blog at www.wmeinc.blogspot.com and click on the Donate button. You can give to the ministry this way whether you personally have a Paypal account or not. Just follow the directions on the donation page that comes up. Thanks to all of our faithful supporters. Through your faithful giving the gospel is now going into over 200 locations in Honduras and 61 churches have been planted....all in the last 3 years. This is good ground in which to sow to see a harvest for the Kingdom of God. Blessings to you!

Today I recieved the heartbreaking news that one of WME's longtime partnering Pastors has passed away. Brother Pearl Cornett was Pastor at the Cave Hill Church for many years. He and his wonderful wife, Sister Elaine Cornett, have been such a rich encouragement to myself and all the work of World Missions and Evangelism for over 10 years. And the people of the church and the new Pastor who has taken the leadership this last year or so, Pastor Doug Norman, are following in the pathway of advancing the Kingdom of God that has been so faithfully pioneered by Pastor Pearl. The partnership between Cave Hill and WME began the very first year that WME began its church planting ministries, the year 2000. That year WME helped start the very first CTC training center for church planting in India and the result was 12 new churches within about a year. That very first year, Pastor Pearl Cornett led Cave Hill Church to partner with WME and they have been a powerful help to the process of bringi

Randy and Linda Travis have just flown back to Honduras. They have been in the United States since early May and are now back in the nation that they love. Keith and Juanita Travis are also back there after having to make a special trip to Mexico. Please pray for these 2 couples who serve as the strategy coordinator team for the Honduras Church Planting Movement project. They will be traveling across the country of Honduras a great deal in this week, in order to do some important work for WME and the CPM project. Pray for : 1. Traveling Mercies and Protection and Health for them as they drive many miles. 2. Special favor with officials concerning a Visa issue. They will be at the Embassy on Monday. 3. Wisdom and the right Open doors as they travel to several locations in behalf of the project. We are doing some research to benefit the forward movement of this work in the next several years. 4. Arrangements for a CPM training of a new possible catalytic partnering group in the next m

Here are some questions that we can ask of ourselves to check how we are practicing Simple Obedience. Remember the Great Commandments and Great Commission can be summarized as : Love God, Love People, Make Disciples. But if we unpack the commands themselves from Matthew 22 and Matthew 28 we can examine our own responses to these commands. LOVE GOD 1. Am I loving God with all my heart? Am I truly "Hearing" the Word of God and allowing it to sink down into the center of my being? 2. Am I loving God with all my soul? Am I truly "Understanding" the Word of God and allowing it to bear fruit in my thinking to the level of understanding what obedience will look like? Is it so deep in me that even persecution or ridicule cannot make me forsake God and His Word? 3. Am I loving god with all my mind? Am I moving from merely understanding to "Obeying" God? (In a conversation with my wife I came to understand that the Mind leads to speaking and acting....actual obedien

We know that the 2 great commandments sum up the whole Old Testament simply because Jesus said so (Matthew 22:40). So no argument is necessary to establish this, we simply take Christ's word for it. But I am also setting forth the theory that the Great Commission summarizes the New Testament, and since as far as I know, this is not directly stated in Scripture, I need to take 1 blog to make the case. Here is why I believe this. Each section of the Great Commission can be linked to some part of the New Testament....the following illustrates this. Matthew 22: 18-20 Verse 18:And Jesus came and spoke to them saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth" This verse summarizes the 4 Gospels because this establishes the fact that the commission is from Jesus the God/Man whose eternal existence, Deity, virgin birth, perfect life, miraculous ministry, atoning death, and glorious resurrection have just been described previous to this verse. It is because of Hi

We are thinking about the concept of Simple obedience, the idea that the Word of God summarizes God's obedience requirements for His people in 3 commands that we know as the Great Commandments and the Great Commission. Let me quickly say here that I am not saying that these 3 commands are taught in scripture as the method of personal salvation. We are saved, not by our obedience to any commands....these or any others, but rather by receiving by true faith the gift of eternal life from Jesus Christ our Lord, based on His perfect obedience and His perfect sacrificial death on the cross and His resurrection. Ephesians 2:8-9 says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." So it is by Faith in Jesus Christ and His atoning sacrifice on the Cross, and in full assurance that God has raised Him from the dead (Rom. 10:9-10) that we are saved. Our works or for that matter and by exten

In Part One, we looked at the 2 great commandments and the great commission and summed them up as: Love God, Love People, and Make Disciples. We made the point that from what Jesus said in both cases (you can read it all in Matthew 22:34-40 and Matthew 28: 18-20) it seems that the first 2 summarize the fulfilment of the Old Testament and that the 3rd sums up the New Testament. The most simple way that the requirements of obedience, that are expected of God's people in our present day, can be listed is : Love God, Love People, and Make Disciples. In coming blogposts , I plan to share some more thoughts about why this is so and ask some practical questions on how we can use this simple idea in our lives, but in this short posting, I just want to make 1 point. The point is: 1 comes before 2 and 2 comes before 3. Or to say it a different way, you can't really make disciples of people for the Lord if you don't love those people.....and you can't love those or any

Obedience based discipleship is fundamental to all church planting movements. Jesus told us to "teach them to obey all things I have commanded you" in the great commission. George Patterson, who may be considered the "granddad" of the church planting movement trend that has exploded in the last 20 years, wrote about this in his article in the Perspectives reader. Writing about "The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches" he identified teaching obedience as one of 4 strategies that missionaries should employ in attempting to see a spontaneous movement. And in that category, he identified 7 New Testament basic commands. Those 7 are (1)Repent and Believe, (2) Be baptized and continue in the new life it initiates, (3) Love God and neighbor in a practical way, (4) Celebrate the Lord's Supper, (5) Pray, (6) Give, and (7) Disciple others. Patterson is a pioneer in this kind of thinking in our day and I am in complete agreement with him. But as I w

The Honduras project has just entered its 4 th year. The team entered the first villages to begin looking for persons of peace on July 23, 2008. Today, through both the direct and catalyzed wings of the project, there are over 60 churches and another approximately 160 locations where discovery Bible studies are happening. Somewhere around 4000 people are being impacted we think. The warfare has been intense, souls have come to Christ, leaders are being mentored, at least 5 persons connected to the overall work have been killed violently (3 murdered, 2 in a crossfire with police and drug dealers), there was an earthquake that did much damage , flooding that devastated the country, a government overthrow and 5 months on the brink of civil war, and the Kingdom of God is advancing. In the process I have learned some things....or learned some things I already knew much better. 1. God answers prayer. I recently found a copy of the original strategic plan that Randy Travis, our strate

Philippians 4:6 is one of my favorite Scripture verses. God's word says: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. That is an amazing verse. I have thought a lot about this and tried to practice it, and claimed the promise in the next verse, but I don't think I have ever come close to plumbing the depths of this. I am still learning so much about prayer, and I thank God for every prayer He has answered. But I think there is something basic and yet profound about this word. Here are some thoughts on this passage. 1. Don't worry about anything, but rather pray about everything. 2. Handle everything with prayer. 3. Your prayer has 3 parts: Prayer (addressing needs to God), Supplication (earnest pleading from a great sense of need and/or want), Thanksgiving (telling God thanks for what He has done, and even what we expect Him to do). 4. Prayer is not a formula, learned from religion....it is Yo

I was speaking with one of WME's missionaries earlier today and we were discussing the situation in Honduras. As we talked I reflected again on the circumstances we have just had in the work. On the last blog post I shared how that 2 pastors that were about to receive CPM training were murdered on the day of the training. This event did not happen specifically because of CPM , that is to say, not because of persecution for the sake of the gospel, but rather as collateral damage in the ongoing drug war in Honduras. Honduras has the number 1 murder rate in the Western Hemisphere (approximately 10 times Mexico, and 3 times Colombia). These pastors were in the crossfire between 2 drug traffickers and the police/military. While this was not "persecution" it certainly was "spiritual warfare". What I shared with the missionary was the fact that this project is just over 3 years old right now. It officially started in May 2008 when the first workers were trained by R

Friends, this evening I write this blog note to ask for special prayer for the WME Honduras CPM project. Recently we have launched our 300 prayer group project, in which we ask people to give 5 minutes a day to pray for the Honduras work. Nearly 150 people are part of this group and we desperately need all of the prayer support that we can get. The spiritual warfare to prevent Honduras from being reached with God's good news has become deadly today as 2 pastors were murdered. One of these men was hosting a cpm training conference that was to begin today and the other was planning on attending the training. This tragic attack has necessitated delaying the training event for a couple of weeks. Here is a bit of background on what has happened. In the June 16 blog, I mentioned that a partner, that we will call Beto , was planning on entering a new area and conducting a training in cpm in the month of July. This was a first for us because here is an instance where a man that Randy t

Prayer is the primary ministry of the Body of Christ. I have always believed in the importance of prayer, but recently in California as I was thinking about the serious need to increase prayer for the Honduran Church Planting Movement project, I began to see this concept in a more defined light than before. 1 Corinthians 12 tells us that there are a variety of gifts. Not all will be apostles/missionaries, not all will be teachers, not all will be prophets, not all will minister with tongues (although some will). But regardless of our gifting, we can all obey the Word of God and we can all pray. Not all may be gifted intercessors, but the requests that Paul gave for the church to pray for him and his mission team were to the whole church. ( Colossians 4:2-4) Would you join the 300 Project? We are looking for 300 believers who will pray for the Honduras Church Planting Movement Project for 5 minutes per day. If you become a part of this prayer group, we will send you a beautiful 8 page

This blog is to announce a new Prayer Project for WME . I'm calling it the 300 Project and the goal is to get 300 Intercessors for the Honduras and Central American Church Planting Movement Projects. Recently at the Cityteam Leader's Retreat we (Randy and Keith Travis and myself) were with leaders who are involved in some way with CPM type work in 53 nations. We spent nearly 2 weeks together, and the focal point of the gathering was to develop strategic plans for these works that are in 10 global regions. I was asked to be the team leader for Latin America, and we looked at the world from Mexico to the tip of South America. Our team ultimately only had input from our project (Honduras/Central America), Ecuador, and finally a man working in Brazil. At the end of the time, WME has come away having worked on two 6 year strategic plans (2012-2017) focusing on the general population of Honduras, and also on the Garifuna people group. This people group are only 2 percent evangel