Mission UpReach - 2016 Year-End Campaign

“I have come that they may have
life and have it to the full.”
John 10:10
2016 Year-End
Fundraising Campaign

“…developing and
equipping local
Christian leaders to
establish self-led,
self-sustaining,
and self-replicating
congregations…”
Our
STORY
In 2008, Phil and Donna Waldron
followed a call to reach the people
of Western Honduras by initiating a
conventional model of missionaryled
church planting. Once there, they
quickly discovered a foundation of
poverty throughout the region. The
systemic poverty, marked by extreme
economic upheaval and political
instability, fed a culture of widespread
corruption and oppression of
women’s and children’s rights. Phil
and Donna realized that ministry
in this turbulent region required a
radically different model.
This situation led to a new vision
for Mission UpReach (MUR) to
transform the culture of Western
Honduras through the gospel of
Jesus Christ. At the core would be
developing and equipping local
Christian leaders to establish self-led,
self-sustaining, and self-replicating
congregations with one outcome to
be cultural change that meets the
physical, mental, and spiritual needs
of their community. This new model
would result in exponential expansion
of the Lord’s church using Honduran
leadership and without prolonged
support from North American
churches.
Therefore, the Waldrons embarked
to develop Christian leaders through
a variety of initiatives that could
be replicated as we demonstrated
success in each one: one congregation,
one school, one person, one brigade.

CORE
MINISTRY
SUPPORT
MINISTRY
In 2015, we began to implement what
we call “The John 1010 Generation”,
a focus on using all of our various
ministries to accomplish the goal of
building self-sustaining congregations
of the Lord’s church. The graph at right
shows our plan for multiplying sustained
growth over the next 20 years. The
pyramid above will help you understand
how each of the ministries revealed in the
coming pages fits into this overall plan.
Roll forward the events seven
years and a wave of transformation
is occurring in Christ’s church in this
region. In the process of identifying
and developing Christian leaders, we
have initiated collaborative efforts
to provide healthcare, education,
counseling, and vocational training,
with the core ministry as and always
to be equipping disciples for Christ.
Community relationships gained
through our support ministries
engage individuals to join leadership
development and discipleship
courses. These programs provide
the training needed to build selfsustaining
congregations of Christ’s
church as the vessel for hope in
each community. We refer to this
impressive growth as The John
1010 Generation – with the goal of
developing local leaders to launch
1010 self-led, self-sustaining, and
self-replicating congregations so that
“they will have life and have it to the
fullest” (John 10:10).
The John
Generation

Equipping Disciples
CREO/CRESCO
In 2009, Santa Rosa de Copan
had one congregation. During
the next few years, CREO boot
camps and CRESCO theological
studies grew into core programs
for developing local Christian
leaders. By 2016, the largest
body, the Belén congregation,
regularly has 225 in attendance.
Nine other autonomous, selfsustaining
congregations have
been formed. Over 50 locations
with seedling congregations
have been identified where
our evangelistic methods are
being implemented to create
transformed congregations. Our
leadership trainers are currently
collaborating with support
ministries to open doors in
20 other communities that do
not have congregations. There
were 450 baptisms in 2015 with
the total since founding of the
mission approaching 2,000
baptisms.
CORE
MINISTRY
SUPPORT
MINISTRY

Consider Jormar, who began
attending our boot camp leadership
training sessions and soon graduated
faster than anyone else ever had.
We recently hired him to work as a
church planter and help us continue
to spread the John 1010 Generation
throughout Western Honduras.

CORE
MINISTRY
SUPPORT
MINISTRY
DESEO
Public School
Programs
In 2011, the DESEO program
was launched at one school.
Today, nine public schools
receive weekly instruction and
the program directly influences
the lives of over 1,200 students.
As a support program, we are
excited to collaborate with the
local public school system to
bring Bible-based values, health
and hygiene, safety, and morals
to the local citizens. In addition
to the instruction provided
in the school classrooms, our
after-school tutoring and sports
programs are inviting families
into the environment of the
transformational churches that
are spreading throughout the
region. The work of DESEO is
an excellent example of how
doors are opened through social
programs to increase receptivity
and acceptance for church
planting teams.

Carlos is a Santa Rosa native who first encountered
MUR when the DESEO team invited him and some of his
classmates to participate in a high school basketball league.
Carlos is now an active member of the local church and has
helped bring many of his friends into saving relationships
with Christ. By bringing so many young people to Christ,
Carlos is helping strengthen the John 1010 Generation.

DULCE
REFUGIO
Women’s Shelter/
Family & Marriage
Counseling
In 2011, our Dulce Refugio
women’s center opened with
one young woman, Yeni.
Dulce Refugio allowed us to
address the all too common
abuse of young Honduran
women. In addition, Dulce
Refugio provides a way
for these young women to
see the beauty of a solid,
Christian marriage and family
relationship, some of them for
the first time. Since 2011, 10
young women have received
support in this shelter.
In a related ministry,
over 65 couples have
realized the power of a
monogamous relationship
through Christian counseling
and have exchanged their
common law partnership
arrangements for legal and
scriptural marriages. These
new unions, as well as the
women who have been a part
of Dulce Refugio, continue
to strengthen congregations
and demonstrate the types of
families that help the church
grow.
One young woman
escaped to Dulce Refugio
after being kicked out of her
house because she would not
submit to sexual abuse by a
man who was living with her
mother. During her time in
the program, she worked and
graduated from high school.
Now she is married with a
new son and is an instructor
at one of the DESEO schools.
Even her abuser has repented,
married her mother, and has
come to know Christ. This
young woman’s opportunity
to influence these children
for Christ on a daily basis is
helping spread the good news
of Jesus and furthering the
John 1010 Generation.
CORE
MINISTRY
SUPPORT
MINISTRY

CORE
MINISTRY
SUPPORT
MINISTRY
Medical Brigades
and Other Social Works
HUMAN
SERVICES
In 2009, MUR hosted one
brigade (short-term mission
group) with a dozen people.
In 2016, 20 brigades with
a total of 350 participants,
will serve and share Christ’s
love with 11,000 Hondurans.
These teams work in
the areas where we have
churches or plans to launch
churches in the near future.
Activities include medical
clinics, vacation bible
schools, construction, and
more. As a support ministry,
brigades show an example of
Christ’s love and service to
the local community while
our church planters gain
respect and receptivity in the
community.
Rachel has participated
in spring break brigades
with her home congregation
in Fort Worth, TX since she
was a junior in high school.
After seeing the incredible
work happening in Western
Honduras, she joined
our team for a summer
internship, where she helped
organize the same medical
brigades she had attended
with her congregation.
Through her work at the
medical brigades, showing
the love of Christ to people
in towns all around Western
Honduras, Rachel has
helped further the John 1010
Generation.
Our collaboration with
the Sunset International
Bible Institute’s Adventures
In Missions program has
added a significant amount
of energy and resources to
the work. This is specifically
seen throughout our social
work programs and also in
support of DESEO and The
Moses Project. Our first
AIMer arrived in 2014 and,
to date, we have enjoyed the
partnership of 17 AIMers.

Vocational Training
THE MOSES
PROJECT
In 2015, we were gifted a young men will return to
program called The Moses their communities with
Project, which was founded the tools required to be
by another faith-based productive citizens and
organization. The Moses Christian leaders. In this
Project is now a 120-acre way, The Moses Project is
agricultural training center. a support ministry that
As many as 50 young men helps us bring Christ into
can be housed in the 10,000 many surrounding, rural
square foot dormitory. communities. As a bonus,
The project focuses on we are projecting that the
training these young men revenue generated from
in best-practice farming, the fish, coffee, and poultry
academics leading to production from the farm
the completion of their will make the project fully
high school degrees, and self-supporting, even
spiritual training through providing excess funds
our CREO and CRESCO that can be used in other
courses. Upon completing ministries.
their training, these
CORE
MINISTRY
SUPPORT
MINISTRY

Consider Franklin, who is from a small village in Western
Honduras. He came to The Moses Project to learn
sustainable farming practices and ended up learning
about Christ as well. Now Franklin is a new Christian,
interning at The Moses Project while attending university.
Franklin will be spreading the John 1010 Generation when
he graduates from CREO and returns to his hometown to
spread the good news of Christ.

2016
Annual Campaign
So we are launching our 2016
Annual Fundraising Campaign
with the goal of raising one
million dollars to support and
help us have an even greater
impact on The John 1010
Generation. These funds will
be utilized equally between
four basic areas: Christian
leadership training activities
(CREO / CRESCO), our public
school values education efforts
(DESEO), the agricultural
training facility (The Moses
Project), and the community
services provided through the
brigades. Of the total funds
requested, we are budgeting
60% to be applied to operations
and 40% for capital projects and
to build capacity to expand or
grow new programs.
You can become a member
of the John 1010 Generation,
simply by donating to this
Annual Campaign. If one of
these projects is of particular
interest to you, we are happy
to direct your donation to that
ministry. As the campaign
progresses, we will reveal our
success toward the goal by
unveiling the graphic below.
Your contribution plays an important role in the on-going work of Mission UpReach.
Please pray for us and pray for the many ways that God can use this money for His
work in Western Honduras.
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