2013 Annual Report - The Foursquare Church

2013 Foursquare Cabinet Foursquare Missions International
• Pastors and leaders training as well as the strengthening of national boards to continue
in planting self-­‐sustainable and reproducible churches throughout the region.
Opportunities
• There are a number of opportunities throughout the South Pacific with the possibility to
open new nations. Also, in almost every one of our currently open South Pacific
Foursquare nations, nationals are constantly asking us to minister in the smaller islands
within their nation where we have not yet planted churches.
• We have continual opportunities to open new Island nations if funds are available for
initial pioneering efforts and short-­‐term investments.
• Great need for medical workers and schoolteachers continues to be a demand in Papua
New Guinea.
• There still remains the need for full time missionary couples in Fiji and in the Kingdom of
Tonga.
• We have developed a strong relationship with City Mission, an independent ministry in
Papua New Guinea. We currently have two couples serving in key leadership roles and
another due to deploy later this year. This is a huge ministry that is now also reaching
into the Solomon Islands and using almost all Foursquare missionaries and pastors.
• More and more key US churches are getting involved in reaching into some of our
current South Pacific nations. We have several opportunities for key churches to adopt
some of the newly pioneered works. These new Stage One and Stage Two works need
key pastors and leaders that can bring training/leadership development, worship teams
and resources to help these new nations develop into thriving Stage Three or even
Stage Four Foursquare Nations.
Challenges and areas of prayer
• Motivating national leaders to reach outside of their own nations and plant churches.
• The stirring of more anti-­‐Christian persecution in Indonesia.
• The lack of regional funds to open new nations where we have opportunities or to even
sustain the new nations we already have.
• The desperate need for missionaries to help various opportunities in Fiji, Papua New
Guinea and Tonga.
• Kiribati has been experiencing a great number of salvations and healings. Pastors and
teams are needed to spend time in the developing work in this new Foursquare nation.
• The desperate need to have a national headquarters and unified work in the rapidly
growing nation of Fiji. New opportunities have come up for outreach into the second
most populated island of Vanua Levu. Several key locations and leaders have opened
doors for Foursquare to expand and plant new churches.
• Please pray for the newly opened nation of Tuvalu. Pray for favor, growth and leaders
to arise during these early days of church planting. We desperately need the ongoing
funds to support this work on a monthly basis. Papua New Guinea missionaries are
currently serving the new Tuvalu work, but will be forced to close this work if funds are
not made available to sustain the initial stages of development.
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