320 likes | 631 Views
EVANGELICAL CHURCH WINNING ALL ECWA. A VISION RENEWED. THE PAST APPROACH. EMS WAS MOSTLY INVITED TO PARTNER ON FOREIGN FIELDS MOST OF THE TIME BY SIM AND OR A NATIONAL CHURCH IN THAT COUNTRY. CHURCHES PLANTED WERE NOT ECWA CHURCHES.
E N D
EVANGELICAL CHURCH WINNING ALLECWA A VISION RENEWED
THE PAST APPROACH • EMS WAS MOSTLY INVITED TO PARTNER ON FOREIGN FIELDS MOST OF THE TIME BY SIM AND OR A NATIONAL CHURCH IN THAT COUNTRY. • CHURCHES PLANTED WERE NOT ECWA CHURCHES. • MOST OF THE WORK WAS IN RURAL AREAS AND THE CHURCHES PLANTED WERE ECONOMICALLY WEAK WITH LITTLE CHANCE OF BEING SELF SUPPORTING.
REASONS FOR PAST APPROACH • AN EXTENSION OF SIM FAMILY RELATIONSHI- NOT AT ALL BAD. • A CONTINUATION OF SIM INTERIOR FOCUS ON THE UNREACHED RURAL AREAS- NOT AT ALL BAD. • NO FUNDS TO DO INDEPENDENT SURVEY OF CROSS BORDER FIELDS BY EMS – A SEVERE LIMITATION WE ARE STILL STRUGGLING WITH. • NO FUNDS TO SUPPORT MISSIONARIES ON THE CROSS BORDERS FIELDS BY EMS –GRADUALLY BEING OVERCOME.
EXAMPLES OF OUR MISSION FIELDS • NIGER. • CHAD. • GHANA. • REPUBLIC OF BENIN. • SUDAN. • MALI. • BURKINA FASO
A VISION REVIVED AND ENLARGED EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF WEST AFRICA EVANGELICAL CHURCH WINNING ALL
THE NEW STRATEGY • ADVANCEMENT AND EXPANSION OF THE KINGDOM REMAINS OUR OVERIDING VISION. • PRESENT PARTNERSHIPS WILL BE SUSTAINED AND WHERE NECESSARY, NEW ONES WILL BE ESTABLISHED ( EXAMPLE OF BURKINA FASO). • HOWEVER, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, ECWA CHURCHES SHALL BE PLANTED WHEREVER MISSION WORK IS DONE (EXAMPLE TOGO, MALAWI AND CAMEROUN) • CHURCH PLANTING SHALL START IN CITIES AND VILLAGES SIMULTENEOSELY. THE HOPE IS FOR CITY CHURCHES TO ULTIMATELY SUPPORT THE RURAL MINISTRIES AND AVOID THEIR PERPETUAL DEPENDENCE ON THE NIGERIAN CHURCH. ( EXAMPLE THE GAMBIA, MALAWI AND TOGO)
THIS MEANS MUCH MORE RESOURCES NEEDED • SPIRITUAL • PHYSICAL • MATERIAL & FINANCIAL
SPIRITUAL • PRAYER –MOBILISING THROUGH PRAYER CALENDER, INTERNET BULLETINS AND TALKS IN GATHERINGS AND CONFERENCES. WE HAVE A SPECIAL PRAYER MOBILISER FOR RADIO MINISTRY TO THE CORE NORTH. • BIBLES. • OTHER DISCIPLESHIP AND TEACHING MATERIALS.
PHYSICAL RESOURCES MISSIONARIES • TRADITIONAL MISSIONARIES. • TENT MAKING PROFESSIONALS. (FCS AND NIFES PROMOTIONS WILL BE INTENSIFIED) • STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY SEMINARIANS AND ECWA PASTORS RESIDENT ABROAD, UNDERGRADUATES AND POST GRADUATES. • DISCIPLINING AND TRAINING INDIGENOUS BELIEVERS AND ENGAGING THOSE CALLED AS MISSIONARIES.
MATERIAL AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES • MONEY FOR MISSIONARY UPKEEP EXPENSES OR CHURCH PLANTER BASIC EXPENSES (EG TRANSPORTATION). • MONEY FOR MINISTRY EXPENSES. EG. RENTING OF HALLS, WORSHIP EQUIPMENT, BASIC TEACHING AND DISCIPLESHIP MATERIALS, LAND, BUILDING. • MINISTRY EQUIPMENT . E.G. VEHICLES AND OR MOTORCYCLES.
THE STORY SO FAR - THE GAMBIA • ECWA HAS BEEN INCORPORATED. • MISSIONARIES- REV &MRS SILAS YAKO. TWO OTHER CHURCH PLANTING MISSIONARIES WORKING WITH HIM. • LAND BOUGHT IN BANJUL. CHURCHES PLANTED IN RURAL AREAS, ONE IN SENEGAL, MACEDONIAN CALL FROM SIRRALEONE. • CHALLENGES. FUNDS TO MAKE UP FOR THE LAND PURCHASED, BUILDING DISCIPLESHIP AND TRAINING CENTER, BUILDING THE CHURCH IN BANJUL.
ECWA HEADQUATERS HAS CONTRIBUTED N3M FOR THE GAMBIAN MISSION FIELD. • Visited by ECWA Wuse 2 and ECWA Goodnews Church Maitama, Ministers Hills. • ECWA Wuse 2 contributed 1 m for purchase of the land and building at Banjul. • ECWA Goodnews Church Maitamahas contributed over N2.1m for the Gambian Mission and…….
PRAISE THE LORD! ONE MAJOR NEED OF THE GAMBIA HAS BEEN MET BY ECWA GOODNEWS CHURCH MAITAMA, MINISTERS HILL N5m,ABUJA N500,000 WAS PROVIDED BY ECWA CENTRAL AREA ABUJA
THE STORY SO FAR- TOGO • MISSIONARIES: REV&MRS JOSHUA YAKUBU • ECWA NOW INCORPORATED AND INAUGURATED. • A CHURCH ESTABLISHED IN LOME CAPITAL OF TOGO. SEVERAL OTHER CHURCHES ESTABLISHED IN RURAL AREAS. SEVERAL TOGOLESE NATIONALS TRAINED AND TAKEN ON AS MISSIONARIES, ONE TRAINED AT MASTERS LEVEL IN JETS. • CHALLENGES:THE LOME CHURCH NEEDS TO BE PROPERLY FINISHED, THERE IS AVAILABLE LAND THAT CAN BE PURCHASED FOR ANOTHER CHURCH PLANT IN LOME AND OTHER URBAN TOWNS.
ECWA HEADQUATERS HAS DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTED 3M FOR VARIOUS CHURCH PLANTS IN TOGO MISSION FIELD • THROUGH THE ADVOCACY OF THE ECWA GENERAL SECRETARY, THE KOP HAM GAVE N500,000 FOR CHURCH PLANT AT WAHALA • ECWA GOODNEWS CHURCH MAITAMA HAS CONTRIBUTED N1.1M FOR CHURCH PLANT AT WAHALA. ADDITIONALLY, A MAITAMA MEMBER HAS GIVEN N750,000 FOR ALL THE 5 MOTORCYCLES NEEDED IN THE VARIOUS FIELDS
THE STORY SO FAR -MALAWI • A MISSIONARY COUPLE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AND READY TO LEAVE. • SUPPORT ALREADY RAISED. • CHURCH PLANTING TO BEGIN IN EITHER BLATYRE COMMERCIAL CAPITAL OF MALAWI
ECWA HEADQUATERS HAS CONTRIBUTED N1.5M FOR MALAWI MISSION FILED (INFRASTRUCTURE) • ECWA PLATEAU CHURCH HAS ADOPTED MALWI AS THEIR MISSION FIELD AND COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO THE SUPPORYT OF THE MISSIONARIES TO MALAWI FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. THEY HAVE GIVEN ABOUT 1,592,507M ALREADY FOR THIS YEAR
THE STORY SO FAR - ISRAEL • MISSIONARIES: MR& MRS OBADIAH NAKA (TENT MAKERS). • ECWA YET TO BE INCORPORATED. • CHURCH PLANTED IN A RENTED HALL. • CHALLENGES: FUNDS FOR RENEWAL OF RENT, INCORPORATION OF ECWA, SENDING A FULL TIME MISSIONARY AND SUPERVISION. • ECWA HEADQUATERS HAS CONTRIBUTED N1M FOR ISRAEL MISSION FIELD
THE STORY SO FAR - CAMEROUN • MISSIONARIES: ALL ARE CAMEROUNIAN NATIONALS. • ECWA ALMOST INCORPORATED. • MOST CHURCHES PLANTED ARE IN RURAL AREAS, EXCEPT ONE OR TWO IN GAROA NORTHERN CAMEROUN. • CHALLENGES: CITY CHURCH PLANTING IN YOUDE AND DOULA NEEDS TO BE DONE.
ECWA BURKINA FASO • Already in partnership with SIM Related Church in FadanGurma . Two Missionaries Columbus Pawa and Babangida Abba. • Missionary Ready
OTHER CONTACTS CONTACTS ARE BEING MADE FOR: • SOUTH AFRICA (ECWA HQTRS HAS COMMITTED N1.5M) • KENYA • MOZAMBIQUE. • ZAMBIA • GHANA • COTONOU
THE PROPOSAL • CHURCHES TO LINK EMS UP WITH PROFESSIONALS, SEMINARIANS AND STUDENTS THAT THEY BELIEVE ARE IN GOOD STANDING TO PLANT ECWA CHURCHES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. WE NEED EMAIL ADDRESSES, PHONE NUMBERS, OTHER DETAILS FOR CONTACTS. • CHURCHES TO ADOPT A (FOREIGN) CROSS BORDERS MISSION FIELD THEY WILL WANT TO SUPPORT – TAKING INTO ACCOUNT MISSIONARIES SUPPORT AND MINISTRY NEEDS. TWO OR MORE CHURCHES CAN COME TOGETHER TO ADOPT A FIELD.
THE PROPOASAL CONT’D • THIS VISION RENEWED IS AN ECWA PROJECT AND THE ENTIRE ECWA EXECUTIVE IS INVOLVED AND IS CHAMPIONED BY THE ECWA PRESIDENT HIMSELF. • THE EMS CROSS BORDERS UNIT WILL SERVE AS A LAISON, PROVIDING DATAS , UPDATES AND REPORTS FOR ECWA PRESIDENT AND THE SUPPORTING CHURCHES ON THE CROSS BORDER FIELDS ADOPTED. • FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, ALL FUNDS WILL BE CHANNELLED THROUGH EMS TO THE VARIOUS CROSS BORDER FIELDS AND REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS WILL BE RENDERED BY EMS TO ECWA HEADQUATERS AND SUPPORTING CHURCHES.
PROTOTYPE MODELS • ECWA GOODNEWS CHURCH MAITAMA – THE GAMBIA, TOGO. • ECWA PLATEAU CHURCH JOS – MALAWI • THE FUNDS USUALLY COME IN WHEN MEMBERS BUY INTO THE VISISON!