We are very excited about the opportunities for Entrust! We are meeting and developing relationships for potential partnerships, staff positions, and resourcing our ministries on many levels.
An exciting $20,000 match for first time gifts to the General Fund or for our Africa Project (MMD). No, the match does not include gifts to our personal support (see the column on the upper right of our blog homepage), but it is also a great need. Interested? Please call David at 847-971-6362!
India was very fruitful for the 13 staff on this fact finding mission. It is estimated that church growth outstrips the capacity of the seminaries to train Christian leaders in India by a million pastors (something we learned from our study before going—Breaking Tradition to Accomplish VISION—Gupta and Lingenfelter. To prepare us to conduct focus groups and meetings with area church leaders, we had extensive orientation and workshops. Then our team led Church Leadership Training over a two-day period, dividing the sixty men and women into small groups for more targeted instruction. We heard so many stories of how God used suffering or persecution to transform their lives producing commitment for serving God and man. The cook for the conference owns a hotel, which he closed for three days in order to serve us... wow! Their examples make our “sacrifice” pale by comparison. The 20 women we met with remarked that this was the first time they had ever been given opportunity to have any kind of biblical education. Our team came back inspired and motivated to develop a systematic approach to training these leaders to train others over the next several years.
At an undisclosed location we had a dynamic time for 20 additional Entrust staff - study, worship, prayer and commitment to a serious vision for leaving behind movements of transformation where people experience all the glorious truth we celebrate at this time of Christmas!
