Looking Forward

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 month or so.

This year our theme has been "Moving Forward" and the Lord has been gracious to allow the work to really do that this year. This summer has been a time of "Looking Forward". Randy and Keith Travis and I traveled to California this summer and spent 2 weeks with leaders of CPM type ministry that represented over 50 nations. This large group was divided into 11 working groups focusing on different parts of the world and we, of course, were focused on Latin America in general, and Honduras specifically. In our time there and also since then we have been working on a 7 year Strategic Plan for bringing the gospel and a church multiplication movement to the country of Honduras and even beyond. We have put together a goal of seeing over 8,000 churches planted by the end of 2018, and some of the ground work to move to this new level is what Randy will be working on during his travels this week, and in the next month as well. The process of working on this plan is not to set something in stone! Especially in CPM ministry we realize that there is a real limitation in planning because CPM is specifically the work of God Himself, and He does things many times in ways we do not or could not plan. But this process this summer has helped us to "lift up our eyes" (John 4: 35) and begin to pray and anticipate a harvest that is already becoming ready!

Please Continue to pray for this work and especially for the travels of our Strategy team this next week.

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