Happy Thanksgiving

World Missions and Evangelism wants to wish everyone a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING.  

We have a lot to be thankful for.  God's blessings have been abundant towards WME and the WME missions projects and missionaries this year.  By years end we are expecting approximately 5,000 churches and groups to be reported as having resulted from the INSTAR Disciple Making Movement Project.  Thousands are being discipled and becoming followers of Christ and being baptized.  Lives and communities are being impacted by the Gospel of Jesus Christs.  People have been trained this year in Honduras, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Argentina.  The Megavoice studies have been translated into the Wichi language to impact this tribe in Argentina and the surrounding countries where they live.  The SEASTAR project has been born, providing training in Southeast Asia to focus on unreached and unengaged Muslim people groups.  New projects have been affiliated with WME in Jamaica and Haiti.  

As I was thinking about all that is happening a few weeks ago, I got a strong impression from the Lord that since it is all His work, we must be focused on Giving Him All the Glory.  On the top of our whiteboard in our strategy room in our office is written these words:  
Give God the Glory! 

This is no small thing.  The Lord's prayer ends with the words:

 For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
So that is our focus.  Both now in this Thanksgiving season and later throughout the rest of this year and next year and beyond, All Glory and Honor goes to the King of Kings.

And as we take this time to Give God Thanks for all He has done and is doing, we also want to thank God for you.  We thank God for you, the Partners who pray for WME, its missionaries and its projects, and for the nations and people that need the Gospel.  We thank God for you, the financial supporters of the INSTAR and SEASTAR Projects and to the supporters of all the WME projects and missionaries around the world.  

And we thank you for your love, prayers and financial support that is making such a difference in the world and in the lives of people for whom there would be no opportunity to hear the Gospel.  

Thank you, and May God Bless You Abundantly This Thanksgiving.

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