WIM Flash Magazine March 2019

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W O R L D I N D I G E N O U S M I S S I O N S • M A R C H 2 0 1 9
CHECK IT OUT!
"The Jesus Film App makes
every smartphone user a
missionary to every nation.
And yes, it’s all free.”
RECOMMENDED READING:
“Miraculous Movements,”
by Jerry Trousdale
IS GOD CALLING YOU?
Orientation & Training Week
is coming up June 8-15, 2019.
W W W . W O R L D I M . C O M

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Check out the Jesus Film
Project app!

White states,
“Featuring the Jesus film (based on Luke’s Gospel and originally distributed by
Warner Bros.), the app includes over 200 videos (feature length, shorts, anime and
mini-series) purposed for evangelism and discipleship in a multitude of languages.
As of Jan. 2019 the Jesus film itself is available in over 1,700 languages, including
some for the deaf!
The app boasts several robust features. It allows videos to be watched in their
entirety or in brief clips, with low or high quality viewing, and the opportunity to
show clips of Jesus’ ministry (in any of the languages), then immediately texting or
emailing a link to the person for the entire film.
The map shows every country with the number of translated languages for each
country, further broken down into the videos available for each language. It then
links to those films in the requested language.
The Jesus Film App makes every smartphone user a missionary to every nation.
And yes, it’s all free.”
Currently available in almost 1,700 languages, their goal is to have the
Jesus Film Project library of media available in every language of the world,
on any device. This app is designed to be the tool that can equip anyone,
anywhere to introduce people they love to Jesus.
You can download any video and keep it forever, for free. You can share
clips, episodes, or even entire films for free online. This media was made to
be shared and given away, so you can use the whole library to share the
good news of Jesus with anyone and everyone.
To download the app, just search for "Jesus Film Project" in your phone's
app store.

Is God

calling you?
WIM Orientation & Training Week in New Braunfels,
Texas, is your launching pad into world missions. Each day
is packed with valuable information that will help you step
out and begin to fulfill your calling. Seasoned WIM
missionaries, drawing from decades of experience, will
answer your questions regarding cross-cultural ministry
and show you the steps to the mission field.
The staff works hard to introduce you to the WIM family,
our vision and core values, and to give you an overview of
the training program. You will learn how to build a ministry
support team and raise financial support, identify and
develop your spiritual gifts, and much more. You will want
to begin this process as soon as possible.
To learn more, call 830-629-0863 or visit
worldim.com/orientation.

Recommended Reading:
“Miraculous Movements,”
by Jerry Trousdale
(adapted from Amazon’s review of this book)

How do the people most resistant to the transformative power of the
Gospel come to be its most devoted followers?
Miraculous Movement recounts an
amazing change taking place within
Muslim communities where the truth of
Jesus Christ is turning around the lives
of many Muslims from more than twenty
people groups. Discover through the
sometimes humorous, often sobering,
but always enlightening and
encouraging true stories how imams,
sheikhs, and entire mosques are
forsaking Islam and embracing Christ.
Author Jerry Trousdale explains that
“counter-intuitive disciple-making” is
the biblical approach that makes such
dramatic transformation possible.
WIM missionary Chad P. describes
this as …
Sticking to simple principles that are
found in the Bible, instead of using
clever marketing techniques. Focusing
on making disciples, not converts. Going
slowly at first to be more fruitful.
Focusing on a few people to win many,
instead of trying to get mass
conversions. Engaging an entire family,
not just one person at a time. Sharing
only when and where people are ready
to hear. Starting with Creation and
moving to Christ, instead of starting with
Christ. Making the focus on discovering
God’s will and obeying what God tells us
to do, instead of teaching lots of Bible
knowledge. We should aim to ‘disciple
people to conversion’, not the other way
around […] encouraging and coaching
lost people, from the beginning, to obey
biblical truth.
It seems that we could avoid many
problems in discipleship, if we teach
people to obey God from the beginning
of their relationship with Him. … I liked
how this book presented practical advice
that can be reproduced all over the
world. The emphasis placed on prayer
was also refreshing. The idea of finding
a person of peace to be a gateway into
cities, communities, and even nations is
[…] is definitely something to pray for, in
reaching a region with the gospel.
WIM missionary Jon Looney explains
further:
Sometimes, we assume people already
know about God and Creation, and we
think they are ready to skip straight to
Christ; when we should really start right
where God started—at Creation.
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Many times, as missionaries, we
go where God has called us and
start preaching or sharing [the
Gospel] and do not notice
whether they are ready to hear
what we are sharing. Then,
many times, we do not see the
results we had hoped for and
[find] ourselves feeling defeated
and burned out. The basic idea
is to make disciples like Jesus
did, and that is not through mass
evangelism, but through
connecting with a few people on
a deeper level, and teaching
them to do the same. [We should
do] it like Jesus did—discipling
and sharing with an individual or
family and, then, teaching them
how to share; so they can do the
same process with another
individual or family. That is how
the Gospel was spread back in
the time after Jesus; and it still
works today.

for your interest in missions and for your
prayers for workers to go to the fields.
you thank
World Indigenous Missions
PO Box 310627
New Braunfels, TX 78131-0627
Website: www.worldim.com
Phone: (830) 629-0863
Hours: Mon-Thurs, 8am-5pm