NAT i ONS VISION 2025
Where we are headed in the next 5 years
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PLUS 6 INSPIRING STORIES FROM COVID-19 Issue 03 September 2020
Nations Magazine
THE MISSI
Many people thoroughly enjoy jigsaw puzzles. Throughout the COVID-19 lockdown, sales of jigsaws went through the roof. One of the frustrations of jigsaws is when a piece is missing and the picture is incomplete!
We have prayerfully set some audacious goals, but we’re acutely conscious that we can’t do it alone. We need people who’ll use their skills, resources and passions to partner with us to reach and disciple unreached people groups.
If the Lord’s global mission was a jigsaw puzzle, I wonder where our lives would fit into the bigger ‘picture’? Have you found your place in God’s mission? Are you the missing piece?
Isaiah responded to God’s call by saying, ‘Here am I. Send me!’ (Isaiah 6:8). Isaiah made himself available to serve in God’s mission.
This is my appeal to you: ask the Lord In this edition of Nations, we’re going to what part he wants you to play in his encourage you to find where you fit into mission. Fulfil your ‘piece’ (like a jigsaw) God’s mission to reach the unreached. in God’s global picture. To do so, we will outline an exciting new venture we’re calling Vision 2025, or V2025, which is a clear picture of where Bruce Hills, we want to be by the end of 2025. International Director
NG PIECE There are three things we need above all else. They all begin with ‘P’.
PEOPLE
To accomplish this great task, we need more people. People to go as missionaries, people to serve on short-term teams, people with skills to assist in the services we provide the missionaries, and people to mobilise others to the Great Commission. What is the Lord speaking to you about your part?
PRAYER
Missionary James Fraser once wrote, ‘I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth.’ To accomplish something extraordinary on the mission field requires something extraordinary in prayer. Will you commit yourself to stand with us in prayer for our missionaries and the unreached people groups we’re endeavouring to engage? Your prayers make a difference. For more details on how you can do so, please see the the prayer section in our V2025 outline.
PROVISION Reaching the unreached costs a lot of money. We need greater provision to reap an even greater harvest. Would you please consider supporting a missionary, a project or an initiative to engage with an unreached people group? See www.world-outreach.com/give, click on your local currency, and explore the many people and projects that you can invest into. Every donation – large or small – contributes directly to World Outreach’s work among unreached people groups. 3
VISION 2025
V2025
In late July (2020), we launched what we’re calling Vision 2025 (or V2025). V2025 is a clear picture of where we want to be as a mission by the end of 2025.
Here are our goals for the end of
2025
UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS (UPGs) Unreached People Groups (UPGs) are our primary distinctive and focus. This distinctive governs virtually everything WO does. Most activities, initiatives, ministries, services and structures support and work toward the end goal of evangelising and discipling UPGs.
All the other goals are there to accomplish this main goal.
By the end of 2025, we want to increase the number of UPGs we are engaged with from:
149 to 300
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“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:37-38
V2025
MISSIONARIES To reach the audacious goal of engaging with 300 UPGs, we’ve set a goal to double the number of our missionaries from
250 to 500
Lord of the harvest, send out workers, this is our prayer!
See Page 17 to see short term options of where you could serve!
NATIONAL WORKERS Alongside our missionaries, we currently have around 350 national workers serving in a WO ministry. We’ve also set a goal to increase that number from
350 to 500
This will take our total missions force from 600 (missionaries and national workers) to 1,000.
FIELD LEADERS To oversee the field and care for our missionaries, we’ve set a goal to increase the number of people serving in field leadership from around
30 to 100 7
Will you believe with us in faith to see these goals become a reality? Will you sign up to regularly pray for us? Will you financially partner with us? Or maybe the Lord is calling you to go and be part of the team reaching the UPGs.
Will you partner with us in one of the greatest moments in modern day missions?
PROVISION PRAYER To accomplish all this, we’ll need a lot more income, so we’ve set a goal to increase our annual income by
$1,000,000
The reality is that money is a powerful tool to achieve Kingdom purposes. Would you prayerfully consider financially supporting us?
Give here
www.world-outreach.com/give
All of this will be impossible without a prayer covering, so we’ve set a goal to increase our prayer base from
500 to 10,000 Just imagine thousands of people praying over a UPG, then one of our team going in to engage with them!
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CREATIVE COMPASSION THROUGHOUT THE COVID-19 CRISIS This year, the world has been in the grip of a global pandemic. Consequently, nations imposed strict lockdown conditions to mitigate the spread of the deadly virus. Naturally, this meant that our missionaries were unable to continue their face-to-face ministry as usual. However, many of our missionaries and associated teams improvised with some creative compassion and virtual (on-line) ministry.
Every unprecedented crisis creates unprecedented opportunities.
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THAILAND World Outreach missionaries, Jan-Peter and Natasja Kelder, run a ministry called Siam Care. They learned that nurses in the local hospital didn’t have any protective gear against being infected with COVID-19 from patients. Because the virus usually enters people through their eyes, nose or mouth, the Siam Care team decided to make them face shields.
“The staff were overcome with thankfulness!” In their newsletter, the Kelders also wrote that: ‘The coronavirus is especially dangerous for people with underlying health issues. Most of Siam-Care’s families are suffering from HIV, TB, or other diseases. HIV-infected families have to regularly pick up their medication from the hospital. Usually this involved a long waiting time at the hospital, which could potentially be a dangerous place. Therefore, we have decided, together with the local hospital in Mukdahan, that our staff will pick up all the medications of our families, and deliver it to houses of our families, so they don’t have to sit in a waiting room with many strangers.’
INDIA “Beyond the wildest thoughts... every house church has multiplied by at least five times” One of our field workers in India is cooking food in his office and, with permission from the local authorities, delivering that food to the doorstep of 316 poor families every day. These families have no capacity or resources to buy or source food. This is life-giving! He also reported that: ‘COVID-19 has become a boon for the houses churches. It seems they have hit pay-dirt, as multiplication in the last two months has been beyond the wildest thoughts I’ve had. Every house church has multiplied by at least five times.’ Through donations provided by WO donors, another one of our contacts reached out to a community of 30 families who were poor, marginalised and suffering because of the strict lockdown. He reported that one resident named ‘Sunaj’ told him that she ran out of food on the third day of lockdown. She was desperate, then the worker arrived with the ‘relief kit’. With great thanks Sunaj said her ‘heart is filled with joy…what you have done for me, I will never forget.’ 13
INDONESIA Healing Miracles
One of our missionaries in Indonesia wrote that: ‘…during one of the food parcel hand-outs, we had the opportunity to pray for a man whose shoulders were frozen. He was not able to lift his hands above his head. After praying for him, we all rejoiced as he lifted his hands up high.’ On another island, one of our missionaries is helping his community in Indonesia by giving vitamins, bread and cereal to people who have been quarantined. He rides to their fence on his motorbike and hands over a bag full of these essential items to families who otherwise would have no access to them.
J A PA N
Holy Spirit Revival One of our church-planting missionaries wrote that: ‘We live-stream our Sunday services. After each meeting, people share and pray in small groups on Zoom or on-line. New people join each week and people have been giving their lives to Christ in homes. We have more ‘Following Jesus’ groups than ever. Our mums are being coached to disciple their children in their homes. Family members that would not have ‘come to church’ are joining in and being touched by the Holy Spirit. For example, an 8-year-old was explaining Holy Communion to her father and uncle yesterday and they chose to participate! Distance is now irrelevant, so people join us from other parts of Japan and overseas. They are not watching a programme but worshiping together and becoming part of our ‘Be One’ family.
MOZ AMBIQ UE The power of prayer
The Koti people group of Mozambique went into lockdown and subsequently experienced no community gatherings, no food supply, and no medical help. So, the team in Angoche went to the Lord in prayer, seeking him for wisdom. Without fail, the Father gave them solutions. They were given a slot on the radio, six times a week, to continue teaching the Word of God... thousands of people tune in every day! Food has been stockpiled and distributed to the most vulnerable. Finally, they have created devotionals and medical videos in Portuguese for people to pass out from phone to phone to encourage and inform people. Please keep the Koti people in your prayers. They have no ventilators, oxygen or test kits! God is their hope.
PA K I S T A N
Sustenance to the poor
Through funds raised through WO’s COVID-19 appeal, one of our missionaries was able to deliver food packages to 45 families, which provided food for the families for a week. He continues to do this.
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TESTIMONY OF PROVISION Eugene and Tina Wessels are WO’s South African Field Leaders. In their recent newsletter, they wrote of the life-giving effect that sacrificial giving can make.
Once there, she began to receive proper treatment and was slowly pulled back from death’s doorway. Back home, she is recovering her strength daily. We recently heard that she opened her home to another woman and her child to care for because they had no food.
The picture above is Lecinia, who is severely ill. She was not able to sit up and hadn’t eaten anything for almost a month. Lecinia was close to death, so we had prayed intensely for God to intervene. Without knowing any of this, financial partners from America, who were themselves struggling under lockdown regulations, put a sacrificial offering into our mission account. We rapidly sent aid to Mozambique and managed to organise special transport from Nicodala to Quelimane, some 40 kilometres away, where Lecinia entered a private hospital, instead of the normal, government hospital where she had been receiving so called ‘treatment’ for a number of weeks.
Giving makes a difference in people’s lives like Lecinia.
JOIN THE WORLD OUTREACH FAMILY VISIT A PROJECT
SHORT-TERM
Get your feet wet! Simply by visiting a project, you can be of assistance as you learn more about the needs of the community and the project managers. A guided visit is a great way for you to see how any contribution you make could be implemented into the project.
Serve through a number of channels for under three months. From an exciting 7-day visit, a 2-month programme to an authentic mission field in Asia or Africa, or an Exposure Trip, your skills, gifts and talents can be used to serve UPGs.
INTERNSHIPS
ALPHA TEAMS
Get deeply rooted in cross-cultural field work while serving under the mentorship of experienced World Outreach personnel. Internships last from 6 to 24 months.
Get trained while reaching out to an unreached people group by joining a two-year Alpha Mission Team.
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JULY
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WE LIVE AT ONE OF THE PIVOTAL MOMENTS OF HISTORY. GOD IS MOVING IN THE WORLD ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE.
THERE IS AN AWAKENING! DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THIS AWAKENING AND HELP SHAPE HISTORY? HERE’S ONE WAY TO CATCH THE HEARTBEAT OF WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THE NATIONS. We will have amazing speakers, and you‘ll hear inspiring stories from the field. There will be workshops for missionaries, business people, pastors, and intercessors. You‘ll also have some time to chill with amazing people and enjoy delicious food! Our theme is AWAKENING! Why? Because an awakening has dawned. It is an awakening among the people groups, nations, churches, intercessors, business community, and in our hearts and lives. We’re inviting you to be part of it. Come...you’ll never be the same again!
For more information and registration, scan the QR code or visit world-outreach.com/global-summit-2021
FAMILY NEWS Bill Molenkamp honoured by the Dutch King On Friday 24th April, Bill Molenkamp, who was International Director of World Outreach from 1981 – 1995, was bestowed with a Knighthood by the King of the Netherlands. The Mayor of Haarlem – the city in which Bill and Fanny live – rang them and conveyed the following message: ‘It has pleased His Majesty, the King of the Netherlands, to bestow on Rev Bill Molenkamp, the Knighthood of the Order of the House of Orange, for his 60 years of International and National unselfish service to humanity.’
coronavirus restrictions have been lifted. Bill and Fanny are both 84 years old and, in Bill’s words, ‘exuberantly happy in his service.’ Earlier this year, Bill and Fanny celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Maybe somebody should give them a medal for that also! All of us in World Outreach are incredibly proud of this honour and extend our warmest congratulations to ‘Sir William’. Bruce Hills International Director
The leadership of World Outreach are delighted that Bill’s hard, sacrificial, and tireless work for others has been officially recognised. Bill would be the first to admit that he didn’t do it for earthly recognition, but for God’s honour and glory. That said, I think it’s wonderful that his nation has acknowledged his contribution by bestowing this great honour. The formal presentation, which includes receiving the award and an official reception, will take place in the City Hall later once the
50 Years of Marriage Congratulations to David Adams , UK Director, and his wife Sandra, for celebrating 50 years of marriage! “Here is a photo from our 50th Anniversary special holiday. We thank God for the 50 years, 6 amazing children, and 13 grand-children! And the best is yet to come- Praise God!”
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LET’S GO ON AN EXPOSURE TRIP
Our exposure trips are intended to let believers experience the mission field first hand, strengthen the work on the field, and give a better understanding of what missions amongst an unreached people group is all about. While the focus of these trips is to serve, refresh, and encourage our missionaries through the various ministry activities planned, we also pray God will touch the heart of each participant to discover how they can make a difference in what God is doing.
Most of our Exposure Trips do not have set dates, particularly with Covid-19. Whilst Covid-19 has put a hold on these, who’s to say you can’t start praying, dreaming and planning your exposure trip for 2021 or beyond! Together with our Short Term Coordinator you can work out a time that is suitable for both you and our missionary. Exposure Trips usually last anywhere between 2-5 weeks. All costs incurred, transportation, accommodation, food, etc. during your Exposure Trip will be covered by you. We can give you tips on how to raise these funds! These are just a few opportunities in Africa, Asia & the Middle East. To see more options check out: www.world-outreach.com/my/exposure-trips/ 21
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