World Missions & Evangelism, Inc.

Here is some important information for readers of the WME blog. I call it Wells, Webinars , and Websites. Wells: Here's the latest on the status of the Honduras Church Planting Movement project. We have now been working in western Honduras for 7 months. After deploying the missionary team and developing the base where the training would take place between June 2007 and April 2008, training of Honduran church planters began in May 2008 and continued through June. Beginning in late July 2008, the team began to move into the towns and villages in the targeted region. In the 7 months between July 23, 2008 and today, February 26, 2009, the team has conducted a variety of access ministries to help the communities. Backpacks of school supplies have been distributed to school children. Thousands of vitamins have been distributed to families. Micro business enterprises have blessed villages. And 7 wells have been drilled for needy families and communities. Because of these commun...

World Missions and Evangelism is committed to helping the process of bringing closure to the Great Commission. WME does this through both a networking ministry of helps for missionaries around the world and through the fostering of church planting movements. These are the two categories of ministry and strategy that WME pursues. Category 1: Networking and Helping Missionaries WME serves as a sending agency for thirty missionaries and also partners with five other missionaries and ministries. These thirty-five outreaches and ministries target the following countries: Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Mozambique, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Botswana, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, India, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Haiti, Jamaica, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, France and the USA. That is twenty-three nations on seven continents! Category 2: Church Planting and Unreached Peoples WME is involved in pioneer church planting and church planting movements. Since 2000, WME has planted 212 ...

In this post, I want to recommend some resources that will be helpful concerning missions and church planting movements. I think that by recommending some books, I can help people to go deeper into the cutting edge strategies that are bearing fruit in the harvest of souls. Let me start by recommending Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, edited by Ralph Winter and Steven Hawthorne. This book was first produced in 1981 and then revised in 1992, 1999, and just last month in January 2009. This is a large book that is a set of readings in missions by numerous authors and produced by the U.S. Center for World Missions, in Pasadena , California. It is also a 15 week course that can be taken for college credit or just a certificate and is taught in hundreds of locations in the U.S. and around the world. I had the privilege of being part of the contributing team to this 4 th edition of Perspectives, by helping produce some of the study questions for the book. Perspectives, the bo...

Dear Blog reader, This article is to update you on events at the home office of World Missions and Evangelism. WME is located in Marshall County Kentucky, which was declared by President Obama to be a Federal Disaster Area yesterday. On Tuesday January 27, this whole region was hit by an ice storm of a sort that has not been seen here in decades. From Arkansas to Kentucky over 1.3 million people were without power. Our locality was one of the hardest hit. Our office was closed from Tuesday the 27 th till Monday the 2 nd of February. We did not have Internet access in the office until yesterday the 5 th . By the grace of God WME has no real damage. Our process and communication with our missionaries around the world was disrupted, but by yesterday, everything is back to normal and we are caught up. Special thanks to the maintenance staff of Christian Fellowship Church, who spent 2-3 days cleaning up downed limbs to give us access to the office parking lot. Also to Jenny ...

As we launch into this new year, and the 2 nd year of our cpm project in Honduras, I want to refocus on prayer. Prayer is the first of the critical elements. Prayer is the absolute basis of cpm . Without prayer, no cpm can happen. The critical element is actually called "Passionate, Extraordinary Prayer". So let's focus on prayer. I ask that all readers of this blog make prayer for the Honduras cpm project a priority in your life. If you do and would let me know about it, email me at dparish9@cs.com . In this article, I want to talk about the Privilege of Prayer. Let me develop the thought in 3 stages. First, think of the Need of Prayer. In John 15:5 Jesus told us that without Him we can do a total of ......NOTHING! This is lesson 1 for people who want to see a church planting movement happen. Or for that matter anything else! So prayer is needed, because God is needed. I have some BIG goals for WME . By the year 2030, I want to see 100,000 churches plant...

In the last blog article, I talked about WME's Big Picture. I discussed our Mission, Vision, and Goal. However, no goal is reached by just having a goal. There must be a process and action steps by which a goal is pursued. So in this post I want to talk about our strategy. Strategy: The strategy of WME is CPM . Having said that, the definition of our strategy could be as broad as everything in every blog article that ever has or ever will be posted here. But to narrow it down a bit, we are focusing on a specific church planting movement project in Western Honduras, Central America. Our plan involves training and deploying church planters into village areas that currently have no adequate gospel witness. Hundreds of such places exist in our target field. Through access ministries relationships are developed. When persons of peace are identified, discovery Bible studies are begun. Through these studies and relationships people are discipled to become obedient followers of Jesus Ch...

Welcome to the WME blogspot in 2009. This year I will be taking the readers on a journey into a new church planting movement project in Honduras, Central America. The previous posts from 2008 tell alot about our history and what has brought us to this point. Now we move into the new year with great anticipation of what God is going to do. In this first blog of the year, I want to give you some "Big Picture" information about World Missions and Evangelism, Inc. I want to let you know our objectives and our strategies....really the reason why WME exists and what we hope to accomplish this year and in the next decades. In this and in the next few blogs I will share WME's Mission, Vision, Goals, Strategy, and Tactical Plan for the future as I see it right now. Of course, WME and all of us are works in progress and are open for new directions from the Lord. But for now, let me tell you how I understand these things....and I hope for your interest to grow, as well as prayer and...