World Missions & Evangelism, Inc.

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...