The 300 Project
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 evangelical.....98 percent unresponsive. There are 143,000 of them in Honduras. Totally there are about 600,000 Garifuna people spread through 4 countries: Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
Randy, Keith, and I developed preliminary strategic plans for (1) The General Population of Honduras (Over 6.4 million people), and (2) the Garifuna People Group (600,000 in 4 countries). This was not random choice, because we are already working among the first group, and did an initial training for 2 persons working with the Garifuna in April. 1 Discovery Bible Study has already begun with the Garifuna (although it is in Spanish, and they have asked for a Garifuna language option which we have not developed yet).
Here is where this becomes an issue for prayer and faith. The goal we set in California is 5,000 general population churches and 3,000 Garifuna churches in these regions in the next 6 and 1 half years from right now! Let me be clear.....that will require a miracle of God's power and multiple church planting movements happening over a wide area impacting hundreds of thousands of people!
As we worked on these strategy plans, we knew that our present level of Prayer cover is not even close to what we will need to see happen. So I am rededicating myself to developing a prayer base for this work.
The 300 Project is just a beginning. But we must begin somewhere. I am looking for 300 people who will join to pray at least 5 minutes per day for these outreaches! 5 minutes is not much, one might say, but when 300 people do it.....that is 25 hours of prayer.....every 24 hour day!
Will you join me in being 1 of the 300? God did amazing things with just 300 in the days of Gideon, and He is the same today! If you would like to be a part of the 300 Project, please send me an email at: dparish9@cs.com.
If you give me your name, address, and/or email address, I will send you an initial prayer guide for the Honduras/Garifuna project and include information you can use to inform your intercession. Then every month I will update you on prayer requests from the project as it continues to develop.
At this time there are 61 Honduran churches, approximately 150 Honduran DBS groups, and 1 Garifuna DBS group. The workers are diligently laboring in the harvest field. Close to 4,000 people are being impacted. We are believing for what God is currently doing to be multiplied as people pray!
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 evangelical.....98 percent unresponsive. There are 143,000 of them in Honduras. Totally there are about 600,000 Garifuna people spread through 4 countries: Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
Randy, Keith, and I developed preliminary strategic plans for (1) The General Population of Honduras (Over 6.4 million people), and (2) the Garifuna People Group (600,000 in 4 countries). This was not random choice, because we are already working among the first group, and did an initial training for 2 persons working with the Garifuna in April. 1 Discovery Bible Study has already begun with the Garifuna (although it is in Spanish, and they have asked for a Garifuna language option which we have not developed yet).
Here is where this becomes an issue for prayer and faith. The goal we set in California is 5,000 general population churches and 3,000 Garifuna churches in these regions in the next 6 and 1 half years from right now! Let me be clear.....that will require a miracle of God's power and multiple church planting movements happening over a wide area impacting hundreds of thousands of people!
As we worked on these strategy plans, we knew that our present level of Prayer cover is not even close to what we will need to see happen. So I am rededicating myself to developing a prayer base for this work.
The 300 Project is just a beginning. But we must begin somewhere. I am looking for 300 people who will join to pray at least 5 minutes per day for these outreaches! 5 minutes is not much, one might say, but when 300 people do it.....that is 25 hours of prayer.....every 24 hour day!
Will you join me in being 1 of the 300? God did amazing things with just 300 in the days of Gideon, and He is the same today! If you would like to be a part of the 300 Project, please send me an email at: dparish9@cs.com.
If you give me your name, address, and/or email address, I will send you an initial prayer guide for the Honduras/Garifuna project and include information you can use to inform your intercession. Then every month I will update you on prayer requests from the project as it continues to develop.
At this time there are 61 Honduran churches, approximately 150 Honduran DBS groups, and 1 Garifuna DBS group. The workers are diligently laboring in the harvest field. Close to 4,000 people are being impacted. We are believing for what God is currently doing to be multiplied as people pray!
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