World Missions & Evangelism, Inc.

Please Mark your calendars for November 7-9, 2014.  Those are the Dates of the 15th World Missions and Evangelism Missions Conference.  This year the Conference will be at Oasis Christian Center in Paducah, Ky.  The sessions will begin Friday evening November 7, and continue through the Weekend with day and evening sessions. If you would like to get more information about the conference and/register to attend, you may send an email to dparish9@cs.com and ask for information.  There is no charge to attend, and there a limited number of hotel rooms provided for missionaries who attend, at no cost. We look forward to seeing you at the 15th World Missions and Evangelism conference.

I have just returned from our very large Training Event near Tegucigalpa, Honduras.  It was a great time and we are very exited about this great event.  Our team conducted 2 different training events.  First we had a Level 2 Training event that was attended by over 40 people.  These have already been trained in the basics of church planting movements and have begun to implement the practices.  This training was for the purpose of encouraging these leaders and helping with issues that are being met in the field.  We had numerous comments that this was a very helpful event. Following this training, the team conducted the Level 1 training.  About half of the Level 2 trainees remained for the Level 1 training.  About 100 people took the Level 1 training, which is designed to cover the basics of CPM and disciple making movements.  This training included a spiritual focus with Anthony Fouts bringing messages of commitment and anointing.  T...

God is moving in Honduras and Latin America.  We have just finished tabulating the most recent reports from the Church Planting Movement/Disciple Making Movement project there.  Every 3-4 months our team conducts an in depth analysis of the progress of the work.  The most recent report is incredibly encouraging, and gives evidence that a church planting movement is underway! Here are some quick snapshots: 3 Months work:  October-December, 2013 (The lag in report time is because of the time required to collect the data and assimilate and analyze it) 26 New Groups over all:  For a total of 453 Groups in Latin America 55 New Churches: For a total of 335.  (These represent groups that now have at least a core of believers). Total Baptisms in 3 Months:  542 Total New Believers in 3 Months: 515 At present it seems that the average is now nearly 6 people saved and baptized...EVERY DAY! And it represents a New Church Planted....EVERY 2 DAYS! As w...

I recently returned from Las Margaritas in Chiapas Mexico.  Our strategy coordinator team of Randy and Linda and Keith an Juanita Travis and I conducted our first training event of 2014.  We gathered with a group of about 25 Indian believers and leaders and conducted a very intensive church planting movement training event.  The event was coordinated with Missionary Ricky Parker.  We were elated at the eager reception of the training by the leaders.  There was an openness and hunger for the training and we are expecting great things from this group of leaders.  Several were equipped with Megavoice machines to use in beginning discovery Bible studies.  This is just the beginning of what we believe is going to be a great year of training and equipping hundreds of leaders in the church planting movement strategy.  The next training is coming up soon in the Tegucigalpa area of Honduras where we are partnering with Missionary Jim Martin and his org...

The Spanish word Instar means to Urge or to Be Urgent.  I believe that this word sums up what we feel to be a theme for World Missions and Evangelism for the New Year of 2014.  The year that has just ended, 2013, had a theme of Open Doors….and it really proved to be such a year.  But in this New Year, I am impressed to think of the Urgency of the work of God among the Nations.    Missions work is Urgent because eternal souls are at stake.  Missions is not an optional task for God’s people….it is part and parcel of what it means to be God’s people.  When Jesus founded the Church, he was not starting an Institution, but rather He was starting a Movement.  The Early Church was a Disciple Making Movement that exploded through Israel and the Roman Empire like an unexpected Tsunami! The early disciples were obedient followers of Jesus who were discipling others constantly.  Eventually people in the empire called them the people “who turned ...

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 ...