One trained, 700 baptized

Dear Praying Friends,

One of the aspect of our ministry is to equip, empower and entrust believers to start spiritual conversations and share the gospel where they live, work and play. In the past 6 years our small team hosted over 2,600 training events across the U.S. training over 39,000 believers. We always follow up the “Becoming a CoJourner” trainings to see how participants put into practice what they have learned.

Here are just three of the hundreds of feedbacks we have received:

• Four years ago we’ve trained Tony on how to share his faith. In his church he has trained 400 other believers to do the same. As a result of that effort, in the past four years they’ve seen 700 new believers being baptized! Tony recently wrote this: “As brand ambassadors sharing the good news we are excited about cultivating, stewarding and multiplying what we are doing. Please keep us in your prayers as we take this World by storm.”

• John D., a church-planter in the rural area of Minnesota wrote this to us last week: “I’m just thanking the Lord for you guys!  I’m reviewing notes to implement things for future rural ministry and while doing so it has struck me how simple and transferable you have made the mission of Jesus…The simple clarification of seemingly complex is nothing short of genius…Such a joy and privilege to minister together with you guys…”

• Roberto V. a lay-minister from Ft Lauderdale wrote this: “Becoming a CoJourner is not one more seminar in evangelism. It is an environment where there is brilliant exposition, deep encouragement, practice and radical questioning based on Jesus' mission and vision for the "today" church. This is for those who wish to reach their full potential as a Jesus follower, who has the courage to change their life, who looks to build a healthy and trustworthy process for making disciples in a contemporary society. Becoming a CoJourner is for you because it challenges our status quo.”

Please, continue to pray for us and pray with us as we lead a growing number of staff across the U.S. to help equip the Body of Christ to multiply faith communities. 

Moments from across the U.S.

Moment #1: Stacy Reeder from Kansas City, MO

In this 90 seconds video Stacy shares how the Sent 6:7 - Becoming a CoJourner training has helped her to start sharing the gospel among her friends and neighbors. In the past years over 37,000 believers went through similar trainings all over the U.S. and many of them put into practice what they’ve learned.

Moment #2: Roberto Vidal and Shawn O’Neil from Fort Lauderdale, FL

After Pastor Shawn O’Neil came to our “Sent 6:7 - Becoming a CoJourner” evangelism training we’ve hosted at the Exponential conference in 2020, we’ve built a lasting partnership. Since that partnership we’ve trained over 500 members of his congregation and they’ve planted two new churches and they see 20-30 baptisms every quarter.

In his own words he describes the outcome of this partnership the following way:

“As I interacted with David, Gabor, and Amy, I felt a resonance with their vision and their heart for reaching people in a relational way. Their experience and wisdom were invaluable, and I knew that this encounter was a divine appointment. Little did I know that this newfound understanding of evangelism would permeate the next phase of my ministry journey… I started our peer coaching circle with six directors…They got the vision and Lord willing each of them will have their own peer coaching circles with the ‘Lyfe’ mission coordinators starting in February. Through the six we are going to potentially mobilize 75 people. Those 75 people will have influence over 600 which is approximately 75 groups.”

Roberto Vidal, a lay minister at Shawn’s church wrote this:

“This is for those who wish to reach their full potential as a Jesus follower, who has the courage to change their life, who look to build a healthy and trustworthy process for making disciples in a contemporary society. It challenges our status quo.”

Moment #3: Zak and Becky Alwin; Wisconsin Dells

“We just hosted a Christmas event for 275 international students; with 3 youth and young adult teams of 40 volunteers mobilized to engage in conversation. In photo  I am {Becky Alwin} addressing the audience, inviting them to share their prayer requests. Over 30 students indicated they wanted to know how to have a relationship with Jesus and get connected to a faith community. Follow up continues with an evangelistic type Sent 6:7 Pursue group we have in our home on Wednesday nights with 12 students.”