2013 Annual Report - The Foursquare Church

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2013 Foursquare Cabinet Foursquare Missions International • With enormous young populations, there are tremendous opportunities of ministry among the youth in this region. • Lee Schnabel continues to serve the creation of new in-‐service training models in Chile, with great favor from the national board. • Argentina is focusing on a new wave of church planting as well as establishing a new discipleship program using the Deckers’ Doing What Jesus Did materials and the Series of the Ambassador. Challenges and areas of prayer: • Leadership training: There is especially a need for a new generation of leaders to be trained. In several countries we see that more than 60% of the present Foursquare leadership is over 40 years old. Younger leaders are looking for training that will be relevant for the ministry and for opportunities of ministry. Countries like El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bolivia, Uruguay and Belize need help to train more and better leaders for the harvest. • Training leaders for national positions is also a need. Continuous education for pastors and leaders – with recognized certifications. • Pastoral care is a major need especially in strengthening the marriages of the leaders and the pastors; moral failures among leaders are affecting the churches. • Questionable doctrines are entering into the churches and are affecting the healthy development of the churches in the region. • Many of the evangelistic outreaches are reporting certain numbers of converts and yet we do not see these new “converts” in the churches. • We have great challenges for church planting in several countries such as Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Belize, and Peru. Great church planting needs continue to exist in some of the capital cities such as Buenos Aires, Asunción, Santa Cruz, Caracas, Quito, Managua, Guatemala city, San Jose, Lima. • Big Muslim population in Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela EUROPE – Jeff Roper Celebrations • FMI Missionaries are pioneering churches and/or national works in countries like Hungary, Estonia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine; in cities like Amsterdam, Holland, Galway, Ireland, and in areas like the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. • FMI Missionaries are faithfully serving in places like Poland and Russia reaching out to North Africans who immigrate to Europe, Romania, the Czech Republic, France, and Ireland. • Doors of opportunity to pioneer Foursquare are opening in Sweden, Denmark, Bosnia, Macedonia, the Republic of Georgia, and Romania among the Romani people. • There are now 342 Foursquare Churches and meeting places throughout 24 nations within Europe. A number of new cities and nations have Foursquare works in various stages of development. 8
2013 Foursquare Cabinet Foursquare Missions International Challenges and areas of prayer • Pray for the growth of the existing churches and national works in Europe. • Even though Europe is referred to as a “post-‐Christian continent,” the harvest in Europe is still ripe. Pray to the Lord of the harvest to raise up laborers for the harvest: Church planters and church planting teams to go into unreached cities, nations, and people groups. • We need experienced church planters for the major cities of Europe. • Pray for new cities and nations to be reached. Pray for the healthy development of national churches throughout Europe. Pray for wisdom to steward the people and resources entrusted to us. Pray for the pastors and missionaries serving throughout Foursquare Europe. • We have a number of nations within Europe who would be considered “stage one” and “stage two” churches that need to be developed through the next stage. Pray for key leaders to help train and to be trained. • Pray for Europe as it goes through a serious economic crisis. • Pray for Foursquare Churches to be developed in Macedonia, Ukraine, Georgia, Bosnia, Sweden, and Denmark. MIDDLE EAST / NORTH AFRICA / CENTRAL ASIA (MENACA) – Sam (last name withheld) Points of Celebration and Opportunity The call and vision of the MENACA region is to share with those who are the least likely to have the opportunity to hear the good news of Jesus’ love and redemption. This calling and vision is being fulfilled by: 1) Foursquare ministries which are reaching out to the neglected parts of society. Some unique ministries include: • starting the first congregation specifically for the deaf of that country • a ministry for those with physical handicaps • reaching out to children suffering form cancer • going to the streets to feed, clothe and share the Gospel with children living on the streets • beginning multiple drug and alcoholic rehabilitation centers • housing, feeding and giving vocational training to refugees • fighting for justice for abused and exploited foreign workers employed as maids • reaching foreign workers living in the region, but coming from multiple unreached nations 2) Bringing the Kingdom of God to the least reached cities and nations. Currently being established are: • an outreach to a community of over 400,000 residents, but no evangelical churches 9
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