This week I have been in Medellin, Colombia to spend time with our ministry leaders and get to know what God is doing there. The ministry has exploded there with 23 ministry centers in the city/state and thousands of people involved. The commitment to evangelism and discipleship is very strong with lots of new people in every meeting. People are coming to know the Lord!
This week Medellin hosted the South American Games. Saturday morning at 7 am I met with 100 students from one region of the city who gatherered to pray before heading over to the games to share Christ with the students. Although sharing Christ was officially banned on the site of the games, the students led 130 athletes to Christ - all off site, in the streets and restaurant areas surrounding the games.
This is the view from my hotel room. Medellin is a large, very modern city. What a contrast with the small community we live in in Bolivia!
Ministries around the world struggle to win adult men to Christ and see them mature in their faith. In this photo I am with a group of guys who are involved with our ministry. There are groups of men like this that meet all over the city at all hours of the day, starting at 6am. They are involved in a very intentional discipleship process. I have really never seen anything like it. The curriculum they use requires four years to complete.God is doing great things here and we are learning how we can apply the lessons learned here to ministries in other countries.
Blessings,
Ron
2 comments:
Hi, my name is Jordan Denniston and I live in Plano, Texas. I am doing an article about overseas missionaries for my school paper, and I cam across your blog and wanted to see if you would be willing to answer a few questions?
Describe your daily life when you are on the mission field.
What is the most amazing thing you have seen God do?
When/how did you become a Christian?
When do you feel like God called you to the mission field?
What other things do you feel as if God gifted you with, and how do you feel like you’ve been able to use that?
How did you go about ‘becoming a missionary,’ (did you go to Seminary, had a friend who already lived overseas, etc.)?
What is the hardest part of what you do?
What would you say to any students who are considering entering the ministry after high school?
Thank you so much, and my e-mail is jordan_ashley08@yahoo.com
God Bless!
This is really awesome, Ron. God is so good!!!
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