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A Christ Movement in Latin America: Numbers and Testimonies of TRANSFORMATION

We have just finished processing the statistical report for the INSTAR project in Latin America for the end of 2014.  And we are standing in Amazement and Wonder as we look at What God has done in this last year! BY THE NUMBERS First, here are the total statistics for the Church Planting Movement so far.  Remember that this project began in May 2008, and had reached a total of 453 Discovery Groups and New Churches at this time last year. Total Groups and Churches:  1,244  (510 DBS Groups, 734 Churches or Equivalent) Total number of People attending: 10,444 Total number of people saved through the project:  5,594 Total baptisms in the project:  4,735 Groups and Churches by Generation: 1st Generation Groups: 288 2nd Generation Groups: 146 3rd Generation Groups:  246 4th Generation Groups:  181 5th Generation Groups:  215 6th Generation Groups:  136 7th Generation Groups: 32 Second, the last 3 months of the year were...

A Report from the Strategy Coordinators of the INSTAR Project

The end of 2014 is now history! We NOW have a NEW year to work and to live for the Lord. The year 2014 has been a great and exciting year of expansion in the Kingdom of God! In our October 2014 newsletter we wrote: “We are believing and working hard to finish the year with 1000 DBS’s and churches. Only God knows... but we MAKE detailed SPECIFIC plans and then we WORK the plan. God gives the INCREASE as it pleases Him. Who knows what God may do? He may surpass anything we are planning! We just reach out in FAITH and WORK hard TRUSTING Him. TO GOD BE THE HONOR AND GLORY! By the end of December we will know what God has done.” Well..... the end of December has passed. So, what happened? Are you ready for this? Well instead of 1000 DBS’s and churches we ended the year with 1244 DBS’s and churches. Many.. many of these DBS’s are churches! May the honor and glory be for God! Praise His Holy name!   May I say that faith with...