World Missions & Evangelism, Inc.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at World Missions and Evangelism. 2013 has been a great year for World Missions and Evangelism, and we have much for which to give thanks to God.  We called this year The Year of Simple Obedience, New Fields, and Open Doors in our first blog of the year on January 2, and it really has been that.   New Missionaries have affiliated with WME, Missionaries have been deployed to new fields, Many people have been trained as indigenous church planters and disciple makers, At least 196 locations in at least 4 nations have seen the birthing of new Discovery Bible Studies this year....and 96 of those are already at local church status, 462 groups and churches in 6 nations discipling close to 5,000 people is the total current impact of the CPM/DMM projects, Many have received Jesus as Lord and been baptized, and a Disciple Making Movement is moving forward in Latin America.  We think more people have been trained in the church ...

Contextualization is an important issue in mission strategy.  It is vital that as the gospel is presented to a new culture or people, the language used is clearly understandable to people in that group.  Much has been written about this and I stand in full agreement with a lot of the writings of key missiologists.  Wycliffe Bible Translators is, I believe, one of the key leaders in this field, because in translating the bible into many tribal languages, they have found wonderful ways to communicate biblical words and concepts that are grasped by the receptor groups.  Missionary Don Richardson's book "Eternity In Their Hearts" is one of my favorite volumes of missionary literature.  He explains how that key touchpoints in cultures are found.....left there by God.....that can be building blocks for communicating the gospel to tribal peoples.  I applaud these efforts and stand in agreement with them. However, I have a concern, right here in our own American ...

Here are the latest statistics from the Latin American Disciple Making Movement Project. Total Number of Groups and Churches: 427 Total Number of Churches/Hybrid Groups: 280 Total Number of Discovery Study Groups: 147 Total Attendance in all Groups:  4749 Total Decisions for Christ: 2363 Total Baptisms  :    1518 Generations: 1st Generation Churches/Groups: 140 2nd Generation Churches/Groups: 45 3rd Generation Churches/Groups: 152 4th Generation Churches/Groups: 85 5th Generation Churches/Groups: 5 Statistics for the last 3 months: New participants:  326 New Believers: 171 New Baptisms: 201 New Groups: 63 Current Averages: New Groups per month: 21 New Believers per month: 57 New Baptisms per month: 67 Groups by Nations: Guatemala:  2 Groups Nicaragua:  1 Group Colombia:  2 Groups El Salvador: 8 Groups Honduras: 414 Groups

In 2008, when I started this blog, I wrote a timeline of the launch of the project.  In November 2011, I expanded that report greatly to bring the story of the HCPM work up to date.  Now I am reproducing that blog here and have edited it to bring it forward to the present and also to edit it based on new information. Breakthrough is happening, but here is a story of the road to breakthrough and the path of multiplication since breakthrough. God is doing a wonderful work, and any progress is only to His glory and power. We have done a lot of trial and error in the last few years, but the Lord of the harvest has been working His plan all along, through, with and sometimes in spite of us! Here is a timeline of what has been done in this project. September 2006: David Parish and Randy Travis take intensive training in C.P.M. principles from David Watson in Dallas. The H.C.P.M. concept is born. October 2006: Randy does research on C.P.M. principles. November-December 2006...

2 Timothy 3:16: All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.  Focusing on the 14 Nations of Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean    Countries of Focus: Angola Botswana Comoros Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Nambia Renion South Africa Swaziland Zambia Zimbabwe  Making Disciples, Multiplying Churches. It is our mission to make disciples of those that are willing to be taught, and to follow the will of Christ in their life. This mission is alive and happening all across Southern Africa. Disciple making movements have been exploding all over the world, and Southern Africa is no exception! We our affiliated with various missionaries and organizations that are dedicated to the outreach in this area of the world. It is the goal to reach the people of Southern Africa and help them overcome challenges presented to them. The people the...

In this blog we are going to feature one of WME's many missions projects around the world.  The City of Children Project in Villa Nueva, Guatemala. “The City of Children” in Villa Nueva, Guatemala, about 30-45 minutes from Guatemala City. It is an orphanage of about 250 children ages 0-18 with backgrounds from everything imaginable. The one thing each of these kids have in common is they LOVE to be loved. Michelle Garland  began  work with this orphanage several years ago and has recently partnered with World Missions & Evangelism. She takes regular trips to Guatemala to help the orphanage. You can sponsor a child or partner with us to take a short term trip to Guatemala. Take A Trip Michelle took a group to Guatemala three times during 2012. For more information on upcoming trips for 2013, please contact W.M.E. at (270) 527-9445. Sponsor A Child Lilian takes care of her daughter in the orphanage. Little Angie has a skin rash right now that re...

I have written in the past that I believe  we are now in the early stages of the 4th Era of Modern Missions.   Missiologist Ralph Winter has analyzed Missions History since the 1700s and divided the time into 3 Eras:  The Era of the Coastlands 1792-1910, The Era of Inland Missions 1865-1980, The Era of People Groups 1934-the future.  In 2010 Missiologist Tom Steffen wrote a book called "The Facilitator Era" in which he proposed that around the year 2000, a new Era had begun.  This Facilitator Era has specific characteristics that I have talked about in a previous blog from May 20 of this year.  It is not my purpose to rehash that here, but I do recommend that you read that specific blog. However, in this article I want to shift to a practical mode and ask the question:  In this new Era, how is Success measured?  If a leader or a church or a missions agency decides to take up a "Facilitator" role toward completing the great commission, what is ...