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<strong>Spring</strong>/Sumer <strong>2022</strong><br />
CHURCH PLANTING THROUGH<br />
DISCIPLE-MAKING by Benjamin Porter<br />
Fellowship International exists<br />
to catalyze disciple-making<br />
movements in strategic populations<br />
by empowering nationals. A<br />
proven and effective way to achieve<br />
this vision is through disciplemaking<br />
movements (DMMs). We<br />
see disciple-making as a significant<br />
part of the church planting multiplication<br />
formula. At Fellowship<br />
International, we catalyze disciple-making movements<br />
through training in our essential elements, which leads<br />
to movements which plant churches with the DNA of<br />
multiplication imbedded in them. If you are interested<br />
in more detail around this training and its potential on<br />
the mission field as well as through local churches across<br />
Canada, please see the resources available at fellowship.<br />
ca/ResourcesInternational.<br />
This is being implemented in different Regions of the world<br />
through the work of our Fellowship International missionaries.<br />
One of our key regions right now is Middle East and<br />
North Africa (MENA). Fellowship missionaries Bechara and<br />
Roula Karkafi are giving leadership to our ministry in this<br />
region of the world. Bechara writes:<br />
“Praise the Lord that He has blessed us abundantly by His<br />
grace to lay down our vision foundation all over the MENA<br />
area. Currently, 12 projects/ministries are running in five<br />
different countries; we are partnering with more than 75<br />
organizations and churches; we are impacting, supporting,<br />
and training more than 300 pastors and planters; add<br />
to that two seminary programs and four chaplaincies in<br />
Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, and Lebanon. In Lebanon, the Lord<br />
blessed us to partner with and support a young converted<br />
planter from a Kurdish Islamic background through the<br />
Stronger Together Plus Project. Brother Philadelphios, along<br />
with his wife and family, are planting among the Kurdish<br />
Islamic refugees in Beirut, sharing the Gospel and making<br />
disciples who are discipling others for God’s glory.<br />
Philadelphios is witnessing the conversion of second and<br />
third generations of disciples. His heart’s desire is to reach<br />
out to every Kurdish refugee with the Gospel of Jesus<br />
Christ, despite the severe persecution that he is facing from<br />
his family and tribe.”<br />
<strong>—</strong> Benjamin Porter is Fellowship International Director.<br />
OUT THERE: FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL
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