Check out this great resource for praying the whole way around the world in 2014. You’ll find prayer needs for missionaries around the world! Click on the pic below to check out the Global Prayer Walk on the Encompass World Partners website.
Japan: Windows To The World Video by @EncompassWorld Partners
Mission Mobilizers gather in the MidWest
On October 9-10, 2013, Encompass hosted a 24 Hour Retreat for Mobilization/Mission Pastors in central Ohio. This gathering included leaders from five states. The retreat setting, campfire and all, created a flowing conversation ranging from short-term mission trips, to local church mission “successes” and even to how do churches create “pathways” to groom more cross-cultural workers.
The sharing of life, ministry, stories and principles invigorated everyone. At the conclusion, each leader was challenged to a four-step application process:
1) Think (spend some time working through all that was discussed)
2) Draw (put the current reality down on a piece of paper, and draw a future reality)
3) Communicate (figure out good ways to share mobilization with the church)
4) Experiment (try some innovative ideas to mobilize many into cross-cultural mission)
Here’s a list of some of the “recommended resources” that were shared over the 24 hours:
Maximum Impact Short-Term Missions
Credible Study on the Impact of Short-Term Missions
When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
What Every Church Member Should Know about Poverty by Bill Ehlig & Ruby Payne
“Mission Pastor’s Profile” by David Mays
Bible Study from Acts for Supporting Churches- “Behind the Goers” by Mike Jentes
This is a picture of the white board that we had for the weekend…
Identity Initiative for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches by @DaveGuiles
August E-newsletter from @MikeJentes
| WHAT’S HAPPENED WITH ME |
| The Latest Scoop |
Whew…it’s been a busy summer lot of travel! Kayla, Korey and I attended the Momentum Youth Conference with a theme of “I Am Second.” It was a powerful week with great moments of worship, spiritual challenge and making friends.
With Encompass World Partners we did a special project called the 533 Challenge.
We built a wall and filled it with the faces of the least-reached nations in our world – 533 people groups (approximately 70 million people) who have little or no opportunity to hear the gospel. In order to direct prayer toward these peoples, we asked students to take part in the “533 Challenge” – a challenge to pray daily for the least-reached over the next 30 days.
And then the work of praying every day began. It is hard to believe that the 30 Day Prayer Challenge portion just concluded yesterday. Below is an excellent video which gets at the heart of why we did the 533 Challenge. |
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| COALITIONS |
| Still plenty to pray for… |
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We are still praying and working toward a strong and effective coalition for each region of our world – Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. Continue to pray for the coalition for the World Cup. We seek to come alongside the Brasilian Church for outreach, discipleship and church planting around arguably the largest world-wide event! Your prayers are needed for the Spirit to direct the Brasilian Church as to how He wants them to seize this opportunity. Although the World Cup isn’t until June 2014, the time is short to pull this off. Would you pray for great progress in the coming weeks? Would you also pray for God’s guidance in forming coalitions around the Unengaged, Unreached People Groups? There is great interest, but this will be some of the hardest work we’ve ever done. |
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May E-newsletter from @MikeJentes | Mobilizing the church for the sake of the unreached
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| A Time of Incremental Progress |
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I had the privilege of sharing our progress with the Global Leadership Team of Encompass at the end of April. It was very affirming and sharpening as well. Since that time, we are praying and working toward a strong and effective coalition for each region of our world – Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America! The highest-profile, most-time sensitive one I’ll highlight for you. We have approached the leaders of the Brasilian Grace Brethren Churches with an opportunity to have a coalition for the World Cup. We seek to come alongside them for outreach, discipleship and church planting around arguably the largest world-wide event!Your prayers are needed for the Spirit to direct the Brasilian Church as to how He wants them to seize this opportunity. Although the World Cup isn’t until June – July of next year, the time is short to pull this off. Would you pray for great progress in the coming weeks? |
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The First & April E-newsletter from @MikeJentes | Mobilizing the church for the sake of the unreached
| WHAT’S HAPPENED WITH ME |
| A New Role and the Ball is Rolling |
 It’s hard to believe it has been a couple of months since I joined Encompass World Partners. It has been a blast getting to know many of the people I have served with and long respected!Last month, I had the privilege of joining 2 other current staff and 7 other soon to be deployed missionaries for Core Orientation (link). I hope you’ll go to my post to see more about that week.Also I was in Ohio, for a meeting with Mission Mobilizers (link) at the Wooster Grace Brethren Church. A great group of leaders who were challenging one another to be intentional about calling people to living on life-long mission.I also was with a gathering of men and women at the Lexington Grace Brethren Church who have all been in Africa and have a passion for Leadership Training. God is stirring up something for the benefit of the church leaders there — in Central Africa, Cameroon and Chad!
I need your prayers for following up on the leaders and churches from these meetings. We asked these leaders to pray and seek the Lord about next steps. Pray for me as I have the joy of sifting through all that God and trying to form some coalitions. |
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– a covenant group of churches, leaders or ministries – cooperating in joint action – together for a common purpose. This is the simplest definition, but a potent one. We believe that moving forward together in joint action as teams will truly be the future of mobilization. There are a host of coalitions in formation right now. Please Pray that there would be 3 solid coalitions by next month. |
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Exploratory Meeting about English Learning as a Ministry Opportunity @LosAltosGrace
For several months, Phil Helfer, myself and several others have been dialoguing on the possibility of using English Learning/ESL as a cross-cultural ministry opportunity for Los Altos Grace Brethren Church and more broadly for Long Beach as well. We had an exploratory meeting on March 25 with some folks from Los Altos Grace, Seal Beach Grace, Cecil O’Dell and Kathy from CSULB!
I’ve placed some resources from our time together here:
Notes I took from our gathering (Open/Download/Print PDF)
Worksheet created by the beloved Jay Bell that was distributed. (Online Here PDF) [via Encompass World Partners]
Audio Recording of most of our meeting together captured by Cecil O’Dell (Thanks Cecil!)
http://mikejentes.com/audio/ESL-ExploratoryMeeting.mp3
(55 minutes 22 seconds 26MB [Right click the link and Select “Download as” to save])
Next Meeting – April 24th @ 7pm at Los Altos Grace
If you are interested in getting involved, drop me an email mjentes@LAGBC.org
Core Orientation with @EncompassWorld
A great week with some great people! This week of core orientation for Encompass World Partners was really helpful in getting “indoctrinated”:-)
We did talk about the stuff of vision, mission and values, and we were inspired by the story of James Gribble and other Encompass missionaries. Their life stories and lessons learned were very pithy!
We also got to go to a different ethnic restaurant each day, and pray for that part of the world. The food was great, and Atlanta is a very diverse place! A great place for the future of being an apostolic center!
If God continues to raise up workers like the men and women I spent the week with, the building of Jesus’ Church is in good hands!
A little bit of insight into Encompass World Partners…
I’m truly excited to be a part of this team at Encompass World Partners: great men, women and kids deployed all over our globe making a difference for our King Jesus. I wanted to share this graphic which speaks precisely to the values and the logo of the organization:
The piece of this that sticks out to me is “the billowing sail” which reminds us of the indispensable role of the Holy Spirit! We have no alternative source of power!
“…you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
–Jesus (Acts 1:8 NASB)