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Church Planting The words “Church Planting” can mean many different things depending on the experience and perspective of the person hearing you say those words. Here at Mission UpReach when we talk about church planting we are really talking about training men and women to plant churches and then supporting them with training so that the people they bring to Christ will also be churchplanters. The main equipping and training programs we operate in our thrust to plant 1010 churches in this generation are CREO and CRESCO. Following is a brief synopsis of how each of these programs is doing.
CRESCO/CREO — At the beginning of <strong>2017</strong> MUR opened two satellite schools using an intensive format where the normal two years of curriculum were taught in one year. The two locations where the satellite schools are presently located are San Pedro de Tutule, La Paz, Honduras and Suchitoto, Cuscatlán, El Salvador. The intensive format was chosen in order to ready men who would serve as teachers in the satellite schools in 2018, which would allow our staff to open even more satellite schools in 2018 while the existing satellite schools are led by graduates from the program who are conducting classes in the community where they live. To date CRESCO has graduated 47 students and presently has 25 men and women studying in the first-year level with another 20 studying in the second-year level. CREO graduated 19 students in <strong>2017</strong> with seven men from El Salvador, one from Nicaragua, one from Guatemala and ten from Honduras. Overall, since inception, CREO has graduated 89 men, and currently has 281 men enrolled in the program. In the large view we have been able to assist the successful planting of 23 new congregations that are self-directed, selfsustaining and self-replicating. We are very close to seeing the 24th congregation begun with the work that Mike and Kris Bridges are doing in Corquin, Copán, Honduras. At present they meet in a rented house in Corquin during the week and then ride to Santa Rosa (about an hour trip) on Sundays for worship. Not too far in the future they will begin meeting exclusively in Corquin. To us here in Santa Rosa it is very exciting to hear the growth that is taking place in areas like Corquin. We try to keep our partners back in the US updated on these details as best we can with monthly newsletters. If you are not presently receiving our newsletters you can go to our webpage at: missionupreach.org and look for our newsletter archives. Or you can write to: caleb.g@missionupreach.org and ask to be put on the newsletter mailing list. To date CRESCO has graduated 47 students and presently has 25 men and women studying in the first-year level with another 20 studying in the second-year level. Since inception, CREO has graduated 89 men, and currently has 281 men enrolled in the program.
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Page 3 and 4: In 2017 we received our first-ever
Page 5: A Year of Investing 2017 was a year
Page 9 and 10: In 2017 we opened our school, ESPER
Page 11 and 12: BRIGADES — 2017 was a very produc
Page 13 and 14: BALANCE SHEET In $1,000s of dollars

2017 Annual Report

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