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Every Nation is passionate about taking the Good News of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. Learn more about our ministry and be encouraged by our missionaries’ triumphs and stories in our News section.

Breakthroughs Bring Rejoicing in Kyrgyzstan Church

23 May
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Kyrgyzstan is a nation in Central Asia that has an estimated population of 5.5 million. Muslim is its dominant religion, practiced by 75% of the country’s inhabitants.

The Every Nation church in Kyrgyzstan exists to reach the people of this creative access nation. As the church executes its plans, God is faithful to see its members through every circumstance.

Locals are beginning to rise up in key roles in the ministry. A Ten Days team from Victory U-Belt visited the country in October 2012 and conducted a training for the local worship team. The locals are now leading the worship at the church services, singing worship songs in English, Russian, and Kyrgyz.

Timely opportunities are also opening to the church’s missionary team. After forming strong connections with the owner of a language school, they were able to assume working positions in the well recognized organization. These occupations give them more favor regarding their long-term stay in the nation.

In the near future, the church is believing for a local campus ministry organization to be founded in one of the nation’s universities within the year.

 

Stand in prayer for the Every Nation church in Kyrgyzstan:

• Ask God for more open doors to share the Gospel to locals, and to lead them to the saving knowledge of Christ.

• Intercede for spiritual and numerical growth for the church, that more people will be connected to the spiritual family through the outreach groups.

• Believe God for abundant provision and divine favor for the missionary team.

• Pray with the church as they prepare and execute their plan to organize a campus ministry organization in one of the universities.

The Gospel changes lives in China

16 May
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The Every Nation churches in China are doing great things in the name of Jesus, and lives are changing for the better in this highly restricted nation. We receive several encouraging stories, and are excited to share two with you now.

A college junior in one Chinese university accepted Jesus a few months after regularly attending our missionary team’s English classes. Touched by the warmth and authenticity of the spiritual family, she is now following Jesus and being discipled by one of our China missionaries. This girl, who has never read the Bible before, is hungry to know more about Christ.

Four students from another Chinese University heard about having a purpose for the first time during the LIFE seminar held by our missionaries and a Ten Days team last month. These students are eager to understand and learn more by reading the Bible and attending small group gatherings. This resulted in the birthing of a new small group in the university.

2013 Pearl Delta Discipleship Convergence

12 Apr
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Last March 23, 2013, around 120 pastors and small group leaders from the Every Nation churches in Macau, Hong Kong, and three other cities in Mainland China converged in Macau for the first-ever Pearl Delta Discipleship Convergence.

Several leaders from Every Nation Ministries spoke at the whole-day event. World Missions Director, Pastor Jun Escosar reminded the leaders about God’s Call to Biblical Discipleship. World Missions Executive Director, Pastor Michael Paderes discussed the importance of discipleship focus, while Pastor Ariel Marquez, senior pastor of Victory Alabang, an Every Nation church in the Philippines, discussed the role of discipleship in the local church.

Pastors Michael and Ariel then tag-teamed on a discussion on the Four E’s, after which an emotional time of vision-casting took place. To cap off the conference, it was announced that the Pearl Delta Discipleship Convergence, originally envisioned as a locality-based gathering, would now become a yearly event involving churches from the entire region!

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Church planting team now connecting in Israel

21 Mar
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Since their arrival in November 2012, our Every Nation church planting team in Israel has devoted most of its time connecting with individuals who can take part in the future church. By God’s grace, its efforts are bearing fruit.

“God has been opening a lot of doors for us to connect with the right people,” said one of the long-term church workers. “In fact, we were privileged to meet a government official who introduced us to forty-three Filipino groups here in Israel.”

Aside from the Filipino community, God has opened doors for our team to reach out to all nationalities, including several postgraduate students from the country’s top universities. Recently, they met with various international groups from Fiji, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.

“With the growing number of people we were connecting with, we were concerned about where we would meet,” our long-term church worker says. “But God provided!  A nearby church has agreed to give us space for our prayer meetings.”

As they work on building relationships, the team members are not shy about acknowledging God’s hand in their efforts.

“We are grateful for God’s grace, and how He has used our ministry partners to support us,” he adds. “It’s amazing and humbling to see how God gave us an opportunity to be part of what He’s doing in Israel.”

Pray with us for the church plant in Israel:

  1. Ask God for divine favor and a smooth processing of the visas of our long-term church workers and their families.

  2. Intercede for divine provision, wisdom, and guidance for the current long-term church workers, as they continuously strategize for the church plant.

  3. Pray for more long-term workers to answer God’s call to help build the church.

  4. Believe God for countless doors of opportunity for the Good News to be preached in the universities, communities, and institutions in Israel.

Introducing the 2020 Initiative

26 Feb
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The 2020 Initiative is an eight-year plan that schedules the missions focus on the remaining twenty-four countries in Asia, Europe, and Africa that are yet to have an Every Nation church.

Missions work has started for the three countries that are this year’s focus. Scouting trips to Israel and Sri Lanka were conducted in 2012, and Pakistan is scheduled to be explored this year. Ten Days teams are being sent out to Israel, and these short-term missioners have contributed much in the ongoing church plant there. Three students from the next batch of the School of World Missions are Sri Lankans.

God has been faithful in bringing forth the breakthroughs and yet, this is just the start of the 2020 Initiative! Here are the 24 nations included in the 2020 Initiative:

Stand with us in prayer for these twenty-four nations:

  • Pray for more long-term and short-term workers who will answer the call to go to these harvest fields.
  • Ask God for numerous open doors to share His Word to people from all walks of life in every sphere of society.
  • Intercede for favor and divine strategy as church planting work begins in each nation.
  • Believe God for wisdom and anointing for the Asia Leadership Team as they lead this initiative.

“Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.” – Psalm 2:8