September 2021 is Culture Month at FBA Global Missions!
Hear from our Faith Promise Missionaries from around the world and learn first-hand about the cultures where they live and serve!
Leah Rigsby, Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Edner Jeanty, Haiti ðŸ‡ðŸ‡¹
John North, Australia 🇦🇺 Gary & Penny Seithel 🇬🇧
And more!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Thank you for your faithful prayers for our Faith Promise Missionaries each week. If you're interested in knowing more about one of the missionaries you have prayed for, we have a program called MAP (Missionary Adoption Program) where we match church members with a missionary serving in an area of the world, or in a field of ministry, that is of particular interest to you for the purpose of praying for and encouraging that missionary. Interested? Find out more at https://www.fba.org/global-missions/missionary-adoption-program
9/17 Ross & Roula Georgiou
The week of August 23, Robert Foster led a training in Brazil on Evangelism Explosion via Zoom for 134 church leaders. Below is an encouraging report of that event from Robert.
Just last month, Evangelism Explosion-Brazil offered both a national online workshop and a training clinic. Response had been very encouraging with 134 pre-registered for the two-evening workshop and 28 for the more in-depth training clinic that ran through Saturday. The teaching originated from Rio de Janeiro. Participation came from as far away as the state of Amazonas was via Zoom.
In all, eight churches were involved. A large number of people met together in the auditorium of their mother church where the Zoom transmission was projected on a big screen, having come from smaller congregations in other Amazonian cities. The participants from the other seven churches in different states of Brazil connected from their own homes, using their smartphones, tablets and laptops. Connection issues had been an early concern for both the Zoom classes and the WhatsApp video-calls to be made to people who needed to hear an explanation of the Gospel. However, the Lord heard our prayers, and these did not pose significant challenges. The final report on participation was 133 and 28, respectively, for the workshop and clinic. Praise the Lord!
The secret of Evangelism Explosion for more than 50 years has always been face-to-face, real-life situations for equipping church members. In this process, friends, family members, etc. who need to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ are contacted. During the pandemic, technology has been used to continue to make this possible, since home visits in Brazil have for now become difficult to do. So, a trainer from their home, along with two trainees each one in their home, make a group video-call to someone who has agreed to hear an encouraging message from the Bible. What used to happen with everyone together in someone's living room is happening with everyone in a different place! Still, people are being trained, and others are hearing the Gospel explained in a clear, non-threatening way. During this most recent training event with 28 clinicians, the Gospel was presented 23 times by EE teams for a total of 27 people. Of those, 20, or 74%, prayed to receive the gift of eternal life. Follow-up calls were scheduled with each one to begin their discipleship. Praise the Lord!
Our continuing prayer is that all of those who were equipped - caught a vision for ongoing training in their local churches, and for all of those who made a decision - to begin to grow in their new faith. Praise the Lord for this process of MULTIPLICATION! And, thank you for making it possible through your continuing prayers and support!
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