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Year End Giving

Thank you so much for your continued prayer and support. As 2011 comes to an end, we reflect on this great year of BREAKTHROUGH and look forward to 2012 being a year of VICTORY! This is your last chance to make your tax deductible donations for 2011! Any and all gifts are appreciated! You can send a check to: World Missions & Evangelism PO Box 790 Benton, KY 42025 OR Simply click the donate button and give using your credit card or Paypal account! IT'S THAT EASY! Just make sure that all checks are postmarked on or before December 31, 2011. Thank you again for all that you do! May you and your family be blessed exceedingly, abundantly, above all that you ask or think!

Merry Christmas!

I hope that all is well with you and your family this Christmas season. I know this time of year can get hectic. Whether you're stuck in traffic on the way to grandma's house, having the whole family over to your house, or wondering where to start on the kid's extensive Christmas list, try not to forget the reason we celebrate this time of year! JESUS THE SAVIOR IS BORN! This year while you are in the mindset of giving, do not forget to give to the one who was born for the sins of the world! He came to this world so that we could know God and have eternal life! His mission is our mission! Can you give a donation this Christmas to give the best gift to Jesus? Your gift will help us to minister to the lost in Honduras. You can give online by clicking theMake A Donation button or by check to: World Missions & EvangelismPO Box 790 Benton, KY 42025 Please Give This Christmas! Blessings, David Parish From Breakthrough to Victory! This year has been a remarkable year for the K...

Charity Begins at Home, But It Does Not End There!

"Charity begins at home." Sir Thomas Browne, 1642 "You shall be My witnesses BOTH in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth." Jesus Christ, 30 AD A phrase that I have heard many times in my life is, "Charity begins at home." It is uncertain where this quotation came from (although a form of it is attributed to Sir Thomas Browne, an English doctor, from 1642). However this phrase has become popular and when I did a google search for the meaning of this phrase, I found the following: "You should take care of family and people close to you before you worry about helping others. I don't think our church should worry so much about a foreign relief fund when there are people in need right here in our city. Charity begins at home. If you really want to make the world a better place, start by being polite to your sister. Charity begins at home." I find that this is the meaning of the phrase in common under...

Take a Tour of the WME BLOG

Dear readers of the WME blog: I want to thank you for the time you take to read the articles that are posted here and for your prayers and support for the Honduran Church Planting Movement Project. In this post, I want to share with you several new features that we have on the blog. In addition to the articles (This is the 141st post since we started in 2008), there are a number of new features. First: VIDEOS A number of new videos are on the blog. If you will look to the immediate right of this post you will see a video called " A Church Planting Movement is Beginning in Honduras". This video is a brief summary of what is happening and that is probably where everyone should start. Then if you scroll down and look at the right hand side of the blog, you will find 7 new videos that explain the CPM strategy in Honduras in depth, and give pictures and information about the project. By watching the initial video at the top of our page and then these 7 short videos (most of them...

God's Kingdom Advances as a Process, not an Event

One of the hardest things for us to get used to is the fact that God's work, God's Kingdom, advances as a process and not an event. We are very "event" oriented. We want 1 big breakthrough, 1 big service, or 1 big revival that saves the whole nation. While God can do anything, He rarely works that way. The Israelites crossed the Red Sea in a day, but there was still a 40 year process to get to Canaan (although it was only supposed to be a 2 year process!). When Elijah confronted the prophets of baal on Mount Carmel, he had a miraculous event. Fire fell, the people shouted that Yahweh was God, and in a little while, the rain came! But in the next chapter (1 Kings 19) Elijah is depressed, running from Jezebel, and praying to die! Because he found out that 1 event, no matter how great, won't get the job done! It took the rest of his own ministry, the ministry of his successor Elisha over a 40 year period, the kingship of Jehu, years later, and the judgement work of t...

Happy Thanksgiving From WME: We have much to be thankful for!

PRAISE REPORTS AND PRAYER REQUESTS Psalm 126:2Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them." This scripture seems appropriate today. God is truly doing amazing things in Honduras! Our hearts are filled with joy and thanksgiving to God for what He is doing. A Church Planting Movement has begun. God birthed a vision for a church planting movement in Honduras in our hearts in 2006. After nearly 2 years of preparation, the Honduras Church Planting Movement Project was launched in mid-2008. The 3 and ½ years since then have been times of hard work, sacrifice and even persecution. There have been surges forward and setbacks! But to summarize here, we are defining a Church Planting Movement as a rapidly reproducing movement of churches planting churches within a people or population. This is measured in different ways, but the definition that we are using is at least 100 churches, 3 ...

THE 5 DECISIONS REVISITED

Jesus is the greatest leader in history. He is God in the flesh and He humbled himself to die for us. One of the most powerful scriptures in the Bible is Philippians 2: 5-11. Here it is: 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Over 10 years ago, I preached a sermon at the church I pastored that impacted a number of people. I have preached that...