30 Days for the Zhuang (Prayer Guide) - Mekong Springboard Mission

DAY 14: Urgent Needs: Training of House Church Leaders“And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnessesentrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.”2 Timothy 2:2Da Jin was getting a little discouraged. He had been in this southernprovince of China working among the Zhuang for several years now. Hehad visited rural villages where the gospel was gladly received. He hadformed churches, but a lack of pastors made things difficult. If these newchurches were to continue to grow, it was he that would have to return toeach village to preach, teach, and train these new family members, buthe could only do so much. Though discipleship training is very important, it was preventing him from doingwhat he felt God had called him to do—spread the gospel to those who have never heard. There werestill so many who had yet to hear about Jesus. Out of the seventeen million Zhuang, only a very smallpercentage had even heard of Jesus, much less received a clear presentation of the gospel. He had prayedfor more workers to come or to be raised up in Guangxi Province. God had answered his prayers, but therewas still so much to do and still too few workers.When he heard about a new method of starting churches, he was very excited, but a little skeptical. Howsimple it was—form churches from the new believers. He was doing this, but how could he train workersin the newly formed churches to lead other believers, and train them to form new churches? Could they inturn train others who would form new churches and train new trainers? How could a new believer be atrainer? It sounded too simple. But then there were the testimonies of those who had tried this new methodand had huge success. It seemed to solve the problem of never having enough leaders.So Da Jin attended one of the church planting movement training sessions. He went as a skeptic, but leftfirmly believing that this simple, yet very effective method of beginning a church planting movement wouldwork among the Zhuang. Now he could train trainers, which would allow him to continue the work ofspreading the gospel, and at the same time provide the new churches with someone to carry on thediscipleship training.Pray:• For a church planting movement to begin among the Zhuang.• For those who are leading the CPM training sessions to be effective in communicating with and followingup with leaders.• For the local evangelists to spread the gospel in the rural areas using the CPM principles.