Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Unity of Believers to Reach the Nations

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This . . .
Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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That . . .
A historic meeting of international mission leaders and prayer leaders was recently held from Jan. 29- Feb. 1, 2008 in Florida called the Call2All-Orlando. www.call2all.com It was historic, because it brought together many powerful mission organizations with an army of intercessors.
Mark Anderson gave leadership to this “by invitation only” gathering which was attended by 600 leaders including the CEOs of 170 of the primary mission organizations in the world along with the leaders of international prayer ministries. Among the 170, were the two largest mission organizations in history, Campus Crusade For Christ and Youth With A Mission. Together these two have 50,000 full time staff members and 500,000 part time staff members.
The purpose of the meeting was to strategize and round table the most efficient way to evangelize the people in all the nations (ethnos groups) of the world who are yet unreached.
To do this they have divided the earth into 4,000 individual sections. Twenty major languages are spoken in these 4,000 sections with 6,000 dialects, and there are 12,000 distinct cultures or ethnic groups. There are 232 nations, but 12,000 ethnic groups, and these are those that the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in.
This number of mission ministries has never before come together with this kind of focus, and by working together in unity, under a powerful cover of prayer, they believe that this gospel will be preached to the ends of the earth in from 10 to 20 years.
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This is That . . .
The International House Of Prayer in KC is taking leadership to bring all the prayer ministries across the earth together to pray for all these mission groups as they endeavor to preach the gospel to each of these 4,000 sections, 232 nations and 12,000 ethnic groups.
The plan is to encourage every prayer ministry (any group that gathers to pray at least once a week) to do three things.
1. Adopt one (at the most two) missionary groups to pray for. This would be a long time commitment and would not consist of blanket prayers, but would require close communication with the mission ministry to find out what they are doing, where they are going, when things are happening, etc, and covering these efforts in prayer.
2. Adopt no more than three missionaries and pray for them as above.
3. Adopt one of the 4,000 areas, get educated about that area and pray accordingly.
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The goal is to bring all of the mission efforts and all of the prayer efforts into unity. Every area covered in prayer and targeted by a mission ministry. Every mission group and every missionary blanketed with prayer by intercessors all over the earth.
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What a plan. What a mighty God we serve
God is moving, things are happening, and all at a rapid pace.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, and don't blink . . .
or you might miss something.
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