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Last month I shared about a vision trip heading to Chad, and that trip was a great success. We are actually in the process of building at least 3 coalitions to aid the indigenous work there:
Press on,America’s Changing Religious Landscape – Pew Research and additional thoughts
A couple of my mission leaders, friends and mentors were part of a discussion about the study released this week by Pew Research entitled:America’s Changing Religious Landscape: http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/
Posted and first thought by John Ward
Mobilizers, we have an important role to play in helping the church in North America embrace a vision for local and global mission.
May Mobilization Update on Iraq, Chad, Communications and more from @MikeJentes
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April Encompass Newsletter
Mobilizing the Church for the Sake of the Least ReachedApril 2015 Sorry, it’s been a while since I sent out an update. This isn’t because the ministry is going slowly…quite the opposite! I have changed email newsletter systems (now with Mail Chimp), so hopefully I transferred everyone’s email addresses correctly! Feel free to share this update with others so they can pray and be participators in this amazing work! Thanks to many of you who have financially supported the work the Lord is allowing me to do. I have been fully supported each of my two full years with Encompass! Thanks! |
NetworksThis month I wanted to share with you some of the nitty gritty of my work (in one specific aspect). I’m heavily involved in creating, facilitating and resourcing networks for Great Commission good. I’d love to share five of them with you, so you know and can pray…and can even JUMP IN!
Great people are involved in each of these networks and I’m so privileged to be able to connect and resource so many great efforts! |
Thanks for your support!I wanted to get this out to say thanks, and to mobilize you to pray! I also wanted to say that our family is looking forward to a special Family Vacation next week during Spring Break! We are excited! Press on, — |
Engaging the Unengaged and Finishing The Task
For eight years now, a growing network of mission leaders, agencies and churches have been drawing attention to those least-reached people groups who have no known churches, pastors or mission workers. The missiological title for these people groups are “unengaged”—meaning no one is engaging them for the sake of the Gospel. The Finishing the Task network has purposed to count down to ZERO people groups who have no workers engaging them.
Encompass World Partners has been participating over the years and contributing to taking people groups off the list as we send workers to engaging these “unengaged” people groups! The annual working meeting for Finishing The Task was attended this week by our own Ed Trenner and Mike Jentes at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA.
Last year, Encompass mobilized students at Momentum and Grace College to pray for these people groups through the 533 Challenge. 
It was exciting to see answered prayer this year as we were able to contribute one more people group taken off the list through the Encompass family! Over the course of the working meeting more than 70 people groups were taken off as we count down to zero!
Finishing The Task is coordinated by long time Cru and Jesus Film Project leader Paul Eshleman(pictured). We encourage you and your church to check out their website and resources as you seek to reach the least reached for the sake of the Gospel.
- Would you continue to pray for the lost among the least reached?
- Would you make a gift to help Encompass continue to engage?
- Would you considering going to take the Gospel to those who don’t have a chance to hear it?
Children Refuse To Deny Jesus in Iraq
Below is the testimony of Cannon Andrew White on what continues to take place in Iraq with the displaced Christian communities. Remember these communities in prayer.
Thanks to my friend John Lambert who shared this information.
If you want to get involved in helping the displaced Iraqi’s, check out Grace4Iraq.com
If you would like to connect with an emerging coalition to help, please contact me or Ted Rondeau
Also, you might learn from this video done by Encompass World Partners about Iraq.
Missions and Worship
“*Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.
“Worship, therefore, is the fuel and goal of missions.It’s the goal of missions because in missions we simply aim to bring the nations into the white hot enjoyment of God’s glory. The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
“The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!” (Ps 97:1). “Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee! Let the nations be glad and sing for joy!” (Ps 67:3-4).
“But worship is also the fuel of missions. Passion for God in worship precedes the offer of God in preaching. You can’t commend what you don’t cherish.
“Missionaries will never call out, “Let the nations be glad!” who cannot say from the heart, “I rejoice in the Lord…I will be glad and exult in thee, I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High” (Ps 104:34, 9:2). Missions begins and ends in worship.”……
Read the rest of the article Let The Nations Be Glad by John Piper
*This Excerpt is from John Piper’s 1993 book Let The Nations Be Glad
Sacrifice, Joy and Glory from David Livingstone
On December 4, 1857, David Livingstone, the great pioneer missionary to Africa, made a stirring appeal to the students of
Cambridge University, showing that he had learned through the years of experience what Jesus was trying to teach Peter:
“For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice
I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice, which is simply paid back as a small
part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in
healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter?Away with the word in such a view, and with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say, rather, it is a privilege.
Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this
life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these
are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.”
“The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever.”
May this be your joy in all of life, in whatever you do – that where God has placed you is a privilege and a pleasure, because “the chief end of man is to glorify God by ENJOYING Him forever!”
–From Desiring God by John Piper
Tips on Mobilizing My Church for Missional Living
Adoption, Foster and Orphan Care Network
A burgeoning conversation has been going on over the last few months about adoption, orphan and foster care with some people who I really like, and who are INSPIRATIONAL! These folks aren’t just pontificators…they are difference makers!
So Glad Kayla got to be part of 1 Day of #EncounterATL
Back To God’s Village – The Gospel in an HonorShame Worldview
Honor-Shame Conversation in Long Beach!
I’m so excited to learn alongside an expert on Honor-Shame cultures. I find myself interacting with many people from Asia and this conversation will help me understand them and myself much better. I hope you can be there!
Have a conversation with an expert on HonorShame cultures! Jayson Georges is the missiologist-in-residence from Encompass World Partners. He will be here from Atlanta to share some of his latest learning on HonorShame cultures and how we can better sow the Gospel and grow relationships across cultures!
Did you know that there are three major cultural worldview orientations? The one which predominates the Western world is Justice-Guilt, but the Asian world is predominantly Honor-Shame. These orientations are important to undertand as we continue to live in a globalized world. They are really important as we look to live and share the Gospel across the street and around the world! Continue reading “Honor-Shame Conversation in Long Beach!”
How Jesus Sends YOU
I found this post from JS Shaw on the Verge site and wanted to share it:
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” (John 20:21 ESV)
As the Father sent Jesus, so Jesus has sent us. That means that if we can discover how the Father sent Jesus, then we will see how we have now been sent.
So, how was Jesus sent?
Tweet this: As the Father sent Jesus, so Jesus has sent us. So, how WAS Jesus sent? @VergeNations
The Father sent Jesus. . . .
Continue reading “How Jesus Sends YOU”
HonorShame Conversation for Happy Hour in Long Beach July 1
HonorShame Convo for Happy Hour
Jayson Georges & Local Organizer Mike Jentes
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
At SEKA Coffee on campus of Grace Long Beach, 3590 Elm Ave. Long Beach, CA
Have a conversation with an expert on HonorShame cultures! Jayson Georges is the missiologist-in-residence from Encompass World Partners. He will be here from Atlanta to share some of his latest learning on HonorShame cultures and how we can better sow the Gospel and grow relationships across cultures!
Continue reading “HonorShame Conversation for Happy Hour in Long Beach July 1”