an army of missionaries

God is just flooding me with vision lately. I have rarely -if ever- had a season like this.

Like today as I was combing through a raft of great ideas of shaping and maturing an army of leaders. Peter helped me see a better picture of what they do in their missions school, and how it affects their work in unreached people around the world.

Each missions student is ask for at least a six month commitment at one of their several missions bases around the world. Many of them come back then, work several jobs to save money- and go again for longer. Some are blessed with the ability to stay without even a season of coming back. Still others do their 6 months, and come back for good.

If I understood correctly, the missions bases are set up after a Signs and Wonders festival where 10 or more churches get planted. A seasoned missions leader is left behind to start a mother church that nurtures the other new churches, and trains leaders from it. A trusted leader is found out of the newly reached peoples. This leader will likely move into the house with the missions team leader, where he and his wife will be personally trained, nurtured and coached into the leader who will lead the works after the SOS leader is gone. The SOS leader stays on the ground at the missions base for about 5 years, establishing a strong, indigenous church that will perpetuate itself long after they are gone.

Every person who responded to a salvation call will get a visit from this team of young missionaries, be prayed with, given literature if possible, encouraged to get into a church, and coached toward jesus! One recent crusade involved 600 decisions for Christ and it took many months to visit them all! Meanwhile this y9oung missions team also holds additional outreaches, both to train new believers in outreach, and to reach more people for eternity!

I don't know if I explained it well, but it is an exciting idea in world missions. And also in developing and sending young people out for at least a 6 month period of exciting, world changing adventures in God!

I think we might have something here...

Could freedom Valley join them in targeting an unreached peoples group, planting 10 strong churches at a time, sending armies of young people out for adventures in God, and changing the world?