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E2E Events: Spring 2019

1/18/2019

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​We are excited to announce that we have three Everywhere to Everywhere (E2E) training events scheduled for this spring! 


​This three day training event will prepare you to make disciples who make disciples among the unreached. 

You can learn more about the event by reading the program description and looking at a sample schedule a the Program Page.

You can find all your registration, training dates and pricing information at the Trainings Page.
I've been a Christian all of my life and this is the most practical training about sharing my faith that I have ever received!
                                                                                  - a participant in South Dakota
E2E Training Location and Dates:

Wichita, Kansas - March 9 - 11 (register here)

Sioux Falls, South Dakota -  April 26-28 (register here)

​Sioux Falls, South Dakota [E2E Family Training] - May 31 - June 2 (learn more)

Help  Spread the Word

Will you help us spread the word about these great training opportunities.  Please take a moment to share this post on your favorite social media platform.

Feel free to print off a few of these flyers to hang up at your local church. [E2E Flyer]

Thanks so much!  

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Wig-Take 101

1/15/2019

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This Christmas break our family visited the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas and learned all about the race to the moon.  The men and women who worked on that program were asked to do what seemed impossible.  They had to work toward answers to questions that they did not yet know existed.  They needed to develop systems that were not yet developed. The vision to put a man on the moon was far bigger than their own capacities and yet they did it. They worked with a determination that would get their men to the moon. 
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“. . . but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus.” 
                                                                          - Luke 5:19

If you are not familiar with the story of the paralytic whose friends would let nothing stop them from getting him into the healing presence of Jesus, I’d encourage you to stop and read the short story in Luke 5:17-26.

These were men whose determination would let nothing stop them from bringing their friend to the feet of Jesus.  They were men of stubborn perseverance who knew their ultimate objective and were determined to achieve that objective no matter the obstacles and no matter the cost.  

This is a theme Jesus brings us back to again and again in the book of Luke.  A man loses a single lamb and he leaves the ninety-nine others to search far and wide for it.  A woman loses a single silver coin and sweeps the house in search of it despite the nine others she has in her pocket.

Relentless searching seems to be the appropriate response in the kingdom of God to the reality of the lost.  And celebration is the appropriate response to finding what was lost.

What’s It Going To Take
I first heard the term “Wig-Take” in 2007 in Chang Mai Thailand.  Our trainer was telling of his work in SE Asia among an unreached people group numbering in the millions.  He was sharing the plan that he and his team had developed to reach the entire people group.  They had started in prayer with a simple question that he called a Wig-Take question: What is it going to take to reach this people group?

I’d grown up with questions like, “How can we get more people to come to our church?” a vision which suddenly seemed stunningly inadequate in light of his vision to reach an entire people group; a remote ethnic group of nearly 2 million people with no gospel access and no known believers and who were largely illiterate.

It began to seem even more inadequate as he shared stories of their work among these people and what God was doing.

This question presupposes a vision that is bigger than me.  It’s presupposes a God sized vision, a vision I could never accomplish alone. 

Pastor Chris Galanos writes about how he discovered the Wig-Take principles and explains it this way,  “What’s It Going to Take to Reach Everyone in the People Group?” Not what can I do or what can you do. Not what have others done before us. Not what’s possible. No. What’s it going to take? That’s the question we must ask! We have to be willing to do whatever it’s going to take! [read the whole article]

Our trainer in Thailand challenged us with the statement, “If your vision is something you can accomplish by yourself, your vision is probably too small.”

I want to encourage you to begin to dream and pray for a God sized vision for your context. 

Perhaps you live in a city: What is it going to take to reach everyone in your city?


Perhaps you live in a small rural town: What is it going to take to reach everyone in your county?

Perhaps you are working among a remote group of people in Africa: What is it going to take to reach ALL of them?

Pray to the Lord of the harvest for a God sized vision and then begin to ask yourself, what is it going to take?

 Are we willing to do whatever it is going to take?  
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You're In Charge (Part 2)

1/7/2019

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How did you do?

In last week's article, I put you in charge. (Read Last Week's Article)

I wonder what your thought process was like?  I wonder if you wrestled over where to send your people and how many to send?  

Maybe it was a simple decision.  

With today's post I want to share the two videos that inspired last week's post.  They also answer a question for us. 

Not, what would you do?  That was for you to wrestle with.


They answer another question: 

What are we actually doing?


​I want to encourage you to watch the following videos and then to take some time for reflection. 
  • How does the information these videos share sit with you?
  • Are there things we can do differently or better as the church?
  • Is there some specific step you can help your own church take in response to this information?
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You're In Charge

1/2/2019

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With today's article I want to ask for you to step into the role of the decision maker.  I'd like to give you a scenario and then ask you to think about how to approach the problem.  And if you'd like, you can share your ideas in the comments section.  

You're in charge, so let's set the scene.

You are standing in a field on an open plain.  Around you stand ten stadiums, each with a capacity of 100,000.  Each stadium is filled with people and each person is wearing a colored t-shirt.

An Explanation
These stadiums represent the world's 7.5 billion people. The color of the t-shirts represents where the people in those stadiums are at concerning the good news of Jesus.
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Gold T-Shirts - The gold t-shirts represent the people who identify as Christians and are working to intentionally proclaim the gospel and make disciples.  They are sharing their faith and believe that God wants to use them as his witnesses and ambassadors in a broken world.  They make up about 10% of the world's population.
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Yellow T-Shirts - The yellow t-shirts represent the cultural or nominal Christians in the world.  If asked, they would identify as Christians but it may just be a cultural identification because they were born in a majority Christian country or into a historically Christian ethnic group.  They may attend church and have some basic knowledge of the Christian faith but they are not regularly sharing with others.  They make up about 23% of the world's population.
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 Green T-Shirts - The green t-shirts represent people who have access to the gospel - there are Bibles in their language, Christians and churches nearby - but they have not chosen to become followers of Jesus.  If they wanted to learn more about Jesus, they would be able to find someone to tell them more in their neighborhood.  They make up about 38% of the world's population.
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Dark Blue T-Shirts - The dark blue t-shirts represent the unreached people of our world.  They have no access to the gospel - no Bibles, no churches, no Christians.  There are fewer than 2% of their own people group who are Christians and so if they did want to learn about Jesus, there would be no one near them with whom they could talk.  They make up about 29% of the world's population.

​The Stadiums
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Off to your right, three of the stadiums are brightly lit by the stadium lights.  Roughly 10,000 of the people in each of those stadiums are wearing bright gold t-shirts.  As you scan the crowds, these gold t-shirts are scattered among a sea of other people wearing yellow or green t-shirts. The yellow t-shirts make up  about 30,000 people and the green make up another 59,000 people in each stadium.  A final 1,000 people wearing dark blue t-shirts are huddled in small clumps, mostly near the exits.

Let's call this clump of three stadiums Group C.

Next to these three stadiums are four more stadiums which are also filled to capacity.  The security lights are on but not the stadium lights.  The majority of those sitting in the dim light of each stadium are wearing green t-shirts.  Let's say roughly 60,0000.  There are about 30,000 yellow t-shirts, another 9,000 dark blue t-shirts and only 1,000 gold t-shirts scattered throughout the crowd.  The stadium is dominated by green with some yellow, a hint of dark blue and a barely perceptible touch of gold.

We'll call these four stadiums Group B.


Finally the three remaining stadiums sit shrouded in darkness.  Neither the main lights nor the security lights are on.  These stadiums are filled to capacity as well.  Each stadium is filled from corner to corner with an expanse of dark blue t-shirts.  The vast majority, 99,950 people are wearing them.  A mere 50 people in gold shirts which you can hardly see are spread all around each of these stadiums, mostly near the exits.

These three stadiums we'll call Group A.


You Are In Charge

So there you are in the middle of that field, looking out over these ten stadiums.  You're job is to work toward the completion of the great commission, to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that Jesus has commanded.

Standing with you is a group of 100 young men and women, all wearing gold t-shirts.  These 100 represent the total missionary force that has come out of Group C and you are in charge.  It's your job to decide how you will deploy these 100 to be most effective in working toward the completion of the great commission.  How many will you send to each group of stadiums?  
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Where will you send them?  You are in charge.   

What's your move?
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