For this shorter story, I wanted to explain more to you about e3 Partners Ministry.
Their name is derived from their mission statement and their purpose.
1) Equip.
e3 Partners does not make it their goal to enter into a foreign country and take over Christianity ministry there. Instead, the goal is to equip nationals, the people of the country, to minister to their own people. e3 strives to build up the national church by raising up national leaders who head up e3 in that country. Also, about six months before each mission trip, American e3 leaders join together with e3 leaders from the other nation to train other nationals to be pastors.
2) Evangelize.
e3 Partners next sends teams from the US on short-term mission trips (and other countries too--a team from Venezuela joined with Americans on a mission trip to Tanzania last year). Team members are partnered and then each member is matched with a national translator, a national missionary, and a pastor of a new church. The purpose of these trips is to help the new pastors to plant their new churches. As I have mentioned before, each day consists of door-to-door evangelism. When people put their faith in Christ, the pastor writes their name and other important information (i.e. age, address, best time and day for visit) down on a piece of paper. The pastor keeps the information so that he or she can follow up with them in the future, after the mission team has gone. Also, the teams invite all people to the new church that afternoon for worship, teaching, and discipleship.
3) Establish.
The establishment of new churches by e3 begins in the afternoon during the discipleship time. There is worship, and then the mission team will teach lessons about what it means to be saved or about being secure in their new faith. The pastor then follows up with the people and is encouraged to continue sharing the gospel in the area around the church.
Equip. Evangelize. Establish.
Check out their website for more info! www.e3Partners.org
More interesting stories to come...
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