We had our first Sunday of 2016. God blessed us by letting us see two Burmese refugees make professions of faith in Christ. We were also blessed with an American visitor. I preached in the morning service on "Keys for Success in Becoming a Life Changer in 2016."
With a new year we are kicking off a new program that we are calling "To Every Nation." We have divided our community into seven different regions of the globe and put in place regional leaders that will be responsible for reaching people from that region. The regional leaders are responsible to try and learn one or eventually more than one of the main languages spoken from that region of the globe. For example one leader speaks Swahili already and is going to be learning to speak French. Another leader is learning Spanish. Another is learning Burmese, etc and etc...
As the leaders reach more and more people from that group they are to recruit these people and organize them into classes for the language group from that area. Then they can use these people to help reach more others from that language group. This is only the first phase of three in regards to what we hope God will do with this ministry in the future. Please pray for God to use this to help us perfect what we have really already started doing and to eventually do even more.
Our Sunday morning crowd is already very diverse. The evening services are becoming more and more diverse all the time. God gave us a commission to reach every nation. Since we live in one of the bigger refugee relocation centers in the United States it seemed best for us to start right here at home!
