2018: Celebrating 30 Years In World Missions Ministry

The Year Of Greater Global Vision and ProVision

In 2018 we believe God wants us to Lift our eyes to a greater Vision of Global Harvest.  God is multiplying His Kingdom and WME desires to be a part of this by serving and catalyzing Disciple Making Movements in the 7 Regions of the World.  We believe that God desires to bring the Provision of Resources (Financial, Material, Personnel, and Spiritual) to His people in these last days in order to help facilitate Closure on the Great Commission and the year 2018 will be a year for WME to participate in this on the greatest level in our History.  2018 will mark the 30th year of operations for WME (Since our founding in August 1988), and we believe it is a year to begin to fully move into the purpose of God for this organization.

As we begin this year, we are receiving the final reports from the INSTAR project for 2017.  2017 saw more groups and churches birthed than any previous year in our history or the history of the INSTAR project.  2017 saw more new participants, new professions of faith, and new baptisms than any previous year in the project.  

Here are the cumulative results of the projects so far:

INSTAR project 2008-2017
Total new groups and churches: 7,595
Depth of movement: 18 generations
Attendance: Greater than 40,524
Professions of Faith: Greater than 27,813
Baptisms: Greater than 24,299
2017 Daily additions by average
New groups: 7 per day
New participants: 31 per day
New professions of Faith: 23 per day
New Baptisms: 22 per day

This movement is touching several nations in Central and South America. People have been trained in Honduras (which is the country where the project began and in which the Vision team of leaders live),Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and Argentina. In addition, people have been trained from or groups begun in Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Columbia, Barbados and Costa Rica. However Honduras is the epicenter of the movement and the majority of the stats are from there. While including the number of groups and churches from all fields as we are aware, the Attendance, Professions, and Baptisms numbers are mostly from Honduras.
 There are groups or churches not only in general populations, but also in at least 4 tribal groups, one of which is an unreached people group (UPG). The goal of this project is to see the great commission finished in Greater Latin America.


These results are truly miraculous and we give praise, thanksgiving and glory to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ and to the precious Holy Spirit for it is God’s work.
Remember: Each number...every individual number is a person, an eternal soul that will spend eternity somewhere.
Glory to God!

Now we look to this New Year.  We are praying for several advances in this Year that we Celebrate the 30th year of operations for WME.

Please Join us in praying that these Goals will be realized:
Goals for 2018

1.  Continue to Focus Emphasis on the Growing Movement in Latin America.  We hope to see over 11,000 groups and churches by the end of 2018.  We hope to see a total of nearly 40,000 conversions by that time.

2.  Beginnings of Breakthrough with Groups multiplying in every field of Latin America/Caribbean, Southeast Asia, North America, Europe, and Africa by year end.

3.  Beginning partnerships for DMM in Greater Asia and Middle East.

4.  Megavoice DBS recordings completed in English and field tested in North America.

5.  Megavoice DBS translation done and deployed in the Gurani Language for Bolivia.

6.  Spanish Video DMM Training Curriculum finished and deployed for field testing.

7.  Accomplish People Groups Research for Greater Latin America to help focus strategy.

8.  Participate in Key Global Networks aimed at Bringing Closure to the Great Commission
     A. 2414 Network: Participation
     B.  Global Accelerate:  Participation
     C.  North America Accelerate:  Participation and Direction
     D.  Latin America Accelerate:  Assume key responsibility for this Group’s creation

9.  Cultivate Greater Prayer Involvement and Be flexible enough to Follow the Guidance of the Holy Spirit.

10.  Cultivate and Develop more Financial Resources and Sustainable Models for the organization, the projects, and the Great Commission in general.  

Thank you for your Prayer and Giving Partnership as we begin a New Year of Intentional Training and Disciple Making for the Advance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our world.
Matthew 24:14




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