World Missions & Evangelism, Inc.

I was speaking with one of WME's missionaries earlier today and we were discussing the situation in Honduras. As we talked I reflected again on the circumstances we have just had in the work. On the last blog post I shared how that 2 pastors that were about to receive CPM training were murdered on the day of the training. This event did not happen specifically because of CPM , that is to say, not because of persecution for the sake of the gospel, but rather as collateral damage in the ongoing drug war in Honduras. Honduras has the number 1 murder rate in the Western Hemisphere (approximately 10 times Mexico, and 3 times Colombia). These pastors were in the crossfire between 2 drug traffickers and the police/military. While this was not "persecution" it certainly was "spiritual warfare". What I shared with the missionary was the fact that this project is just over 3 years old right now. It officially started in May 2008 when the first workers were trained by R...

Friends, this evening I write this blog note to ask for special prayer for the WME Honduras CPM project. Recently we have launched our 300 prayer group project, in which we ask people to give 5 minutes a day to pray for the Honduras work. Nearly 150 people are part of this group and we desperately need all of the prayer support that we can get. The spiritual warfare to prevent Honduras from being reached with God's good news has become deadly today as 2 pastors were murdered. One of these men was hosting a cpm training conference that was to begin today and the other was planning on attending the training. This tragic attack has necessitated delaying the training event for a couple of weeks. Here is a bit of background on what has happened. In the June 16 blog, I mentioned that a partner, that we will call Beto , was planning on entering a new area and conducting a training in cpm in the month of July. This was a first for us because here is an instance where a man that Randy t...

Prayer is the primary ministry of the Body of Christ. I have always believed in the importance of prayer, but recently in California as I was thinking about the serious need to increase prayer for the Honduran Church Planting Movement project, I began to see this concept in a more defined light than before. 1 Corinthians 12 tells us that there are a variety of gifts. Not all will be apostles/missionaries, not all will be teachers, not all will be prophets, not all will minister with tongues (although some will). But regardless of our gifting, we can all obey the Word of God and we can all pray. Not all may be gifted intercessors, but the requests that Paul gave for the church to pray for him and his mission team were to the whole church. ( Colossians 4:2-4) Would you join the 300 Project? We are looking for 300 believers who will pray for the Honduras Church Planting Movement Project for 5 minutes per day. If you become a part of this prayer group, we will send you a beautiful 8 page ...

This blog is to announce a new Prayer Project for WME . I'm calling it the 300 Project and the goal is to get 300 Intercessors for the Honduras and Central American Church Planting Movement Projects. Recently at the Cityteam Leader's Retreat we (Randy and Keith Travis and myself) were with leaders who are involved in some way with CPM type work in 53 nations. We spent nearly 2 weeks together, and the focal point of the gathering was to develop strategic plans for these works that are in 10 global regions. I was asked to be the team leader for Latin America, and we looked at the world from Mexico to the tip of South America. Our team ultimately only had input from our project (Honduras/Central America), Ecuador, and finally a man working in Brazil. At the end of the time, WME has come away having worked on two 6 year strategic plans (2012-2017) focusing on the general population of Honduras, and also on the Garifuna people group. This people group are only 2 percent evangel...

I am writing from San Francisco where I have been attending a Global Leadership Retreat with leaders of Church Planting Movements and others who are focusing on CPM strategy worldwide. This meeting has been sponsored and facilitated by Cityteam ministries. 53 nations have been represented and the reports of God's work worldwide have been wonderful. The group of perhaps a little over 100 people have been working together and in 10 regional focus groups to pray and plan for the next several years. Randy and Keith Travis have been here as well and it has been a great time for our strategy team to work on future vision for the Honduras and Central American region. Please pray for us as we leave in a couple of days to return to our work. Keith will be returning to Mexico for a couple of months, and Randy will be heading to Alabama and then will be with his parents for a time in July during which his dad, Leo Travis, will be having some surgery. Randy and I will be conducting a CPM se...

"I want you to understand that it is My Work!" That phrase resonated through my mind as strongly as anything that I have ever heard from the Holy Spirit. I do not claim any divine inspiration for this word, and as always with anything that is not directly from Scripture, it must be judged (1 Corinthians 14:29). It may have just been my own imagination....but I don't think so! It was in an intense session of prayer where I was both praising God for the supply of some needs for WME and also praying about present and future needs. The Lord, I believe, began to remind me of how limitless his resources were, and how small our needs were in comparison. But the point that was impressed on me forcefully was that what WME is doing.....is really not something that WME is doing, but it is God's work....something He wants done. And it seemed to me that the Spirit of God was making sure that I got the message. One of the best classes that I ever took was the Experiencing God cl...

Just a note to tell everyone that WME has a new office phone number. We are now at: 270-527-9445 Please note this if you have been using our old line.