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2013 Foursquare Cabinet Foursquare Missions International the U.S., one of the leading strategies of the future is to include partnership with ethnicities and immigrants. In Quebec and Toronto, it may need to be the leading strategy. THE CARIBBEAN – David Stone Update from Regional Council meeting held Nov. 5-‐7, 2012 in the Dominican Republic: • Ruben Nieves from Puerto Rico was elected as Regional Chair for the next two years. • John Henry Nosen was present to minister during times of devotion, and to share about Marc16, the ministry training center he is beginning in Florida, and to discuss how he can partner with the Caribbean as part of the missionary training/experience for students. • The Peacemakers ministry was presented, and it was agreed that the seminar on conflict resolution would presented in each of the countries to pastors and leaders. A schedule has been set for this to take place. • There was also a time of sharing updates from each of the national leaders, and a time of personal ministry and prayer for one another. • A missionary retreat followed the Regional Council meeting. Points of Celebration/Opportunities: • The church in Cuba began an extension of ABI (Angelus Bible Institute) in January 2013. This is a 3-‐year plan of training teachers, and students, with teachers from ABI. At the end of 3 years the institute will be run totally by Cubans. It is beginning in one location, with a goal of establishing libraries and institutes in every province on the island. • A new church is being planted in the capitol city of St. Georges on the island of Grenada. This is their third church. • The Cross-‐Cultural Ministry Training Center on the island of Trinidad is in place and ready to begin classes in March 2013. • Contacts and leaders are preparing to open the island of St. Lucia to the Foursquare Gospel. A meeting is scheduled for April 2013 to finalize plans, and launch the church plant. • A ministry center, El Puente (the bridge), has begun reaching out to university students in the DR. There are encouraging testimonies coming out of this ministry, and its influence is growing and impacting new lives weekly. • The base camp in Haiti was closed for the holidays. It is now up and running again. The first team of the year arrived on Feb. 4. Teams are scheduled into November, but their are still some open weeks. We have invited some of the key US leaders who have been involved in Haiti to serve on an advisory council as we go through this time of leadership transition, and help give some oversight to the base camp and projects. • Reid and Kim Crow are raising their financial support to go as missionaries to Jamaica. Their giftings in administration and education are greatly needed, an will be very beneficial to the Jamaican church. 6
2013 Foursquare Cabinet Foursquare Missions International Points of Challenge: • The family of Pastor Guy Thomas, national leader of Haiti, is living in the Boston area (his wife and 2 kids). They have been there since the earthquake (3 years), with no plans to return to Haiti. Even though he visits them periodically, this is not a healthy situation for his family, or the church. A major decision/change is needed. • There is a need to begin focusing more on national church development in Haiti, and less on teams and projects. This could necessitate the appointment of a lead missionary to help walk through this process. In the meantime, there is still the need for base camp staff. • Jamaica is still recovering from the damage done by hurricane Sandy. While progress has been made, there is still a lot of work to do, and $1000's of dollars to be raised. They are also facing economic challenges at the national office, as well as the need for leadership development. • The Dominican Republic could be losing two missionary units in the near future that will leave some big gaps. Pray for nationals to be trained to step into those gaps. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA – Paul Otremba Opportunities: • El Salvador has only 11 Foursquare churches. The former national leader of El Salvador has sent out a call to all the Latin American countries asking for church planters. Several countries have expressed their interest in sending workers to this harvest field. • The theme of the last convention of the Panamanian Foursquare Church was on Missions. The Panamanian Foursquare Church is planning on sending out more missionaries to the nations, to the region and also reach out to communities in their own country that have not been reached. • This year 2013 we are planning to introduce the material of DOING WHAT JESUS DID to countries like CHILE, PARAGUAY, URUGUAY and BELICE. We are also planning to videotape the seminar of DWJD with the idea to not only have the books available, but also use the internet to take this seminar to the most remote areas of the region and train pastors and leaders how to use this material to train the church to do the work of the ministry. More follow up seminars will be held in 2013 in Central and South America. • With over 2,500 churches and meeting places in Colombia, The Foursquare Church is well established and has good leadership. It is divided into eight districts that work autonomously. New churches are planted all the time and in general the churches are growing. Colombia has the capacity to send missionaries to other countries – and some are already serving in Spain, Dominican Republic, U.S., etc. Leaders are starting to talk about the responsibility to reach out to other nations. Specific decisions to be more intentional in sending out missionaries have not been made. • There is a bigger awareness among the national leaders of the region of the necessity to develop leadership-‐training seminars that strengthen the present leaders and also raise a new generation of leaders. There is a need to provide higher theological Education for pastors and leaders in the region. • We continue to see healthy church planting initiatives in several countries, namely Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras. 7
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