Latin America

Look at What God is Doing

DEAR FRIENDS
T h e O f fi c e o f t h e P r e s i d e n t

The Times, They Are a Changin’

N
owhere is the concept of change more evident than in
the area of technology. During my lifetime, we have
seen massive changes in technology. When I was a boy,
AM Radio was the rage. FM hadn’t even been heard of. While
there was some talk of a device called a computer, pictures of it
revealed a mass of cables and dials the size of a house, and with
less computing power than many of today’s wristwatches.
Today, worldwide, instant communication is standard.
Emails span the globe in an instant and news from remote regions
of the world are available at the blink of an eye. Voiceover IP
Rev. John B. Sorensen
allows conversation between people separated by vast distances.
It would seem that anything is possible.
I write this from a 777 over the Atlantic Ocean. I’m plugged into power. A map on a screen shows
our exact position and our time of arrival. I’ll email this when I land in London in a few hours via a
wireless Internet network. Truly, the world is getting smaller by the minute.
But has communication really improved? Have we become closer or more distant? While
communication is possible with virtually anyone in the world, it seems like our relationships have grown
thinner. Many people will live their entire lives next to neighbors that they will never meet. Can we call
this an improvement?
At EE, we’ve been laboring to come up with tools that allow the new generation to become an
asset to the Church, utilizing connections and conversations that lead to truly significant and eternal
matters. XEE is a great example of how modern communication tools can be harnessed to create
opportunities for connection.
We believe that the Gospel is the great hope of every generation, including this one. The Gospel is
trans-generational and trans-cultural. It is absolutely relevant to our global culture today. Our challenge
is to bring it into today’s vernacular and train a whole generation of witnesses, using today’s tools, to
create lasting connections to communicate timeless truth. This is our great task and our purest joy!
All change brings opportunity. Let’s pray that we can harness this new world of opportunity to
bring the Gospel to the very ends of the earth during this generation.

God Bless,

John Sorensen
President, Evangelism Explosion International
 XPLORE

12
Our Virtual World
New Levels of Technology
Bring Untapped Potential

In This Issue
Als o in this Is s u e
Encompassing the Globe
EE Vice Presidents Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Visible Results . . . . . . 16
XEE Website . . . . . . Back
Expansion
Latin America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8
Excitement
North America Hispanic Ministry. . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Eternity
A Simple Bequest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Experiences 17 Su m m e r 2 0 0 8
Evangelism Explosion International
Testimonies from People in the Field . . . . . . . . . 17
Every Nation Equipping Every
People Group and Every Age
Equipping in Action Group to Witness to Every Person.
Church Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Content Development:
EE News Gerry Kumpf

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Mike Ferraguti
Around Our World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Writing/Editing:
Mike Ferraguti
Endeavors Proofing: Joy Levins
Russia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Graphic Design:
Lance W. Mericle

EE Answerman
Discover How to Handle the Tough Questions . . . . 22

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 Encompassing the Globe

Ken Silva George Verzea Nickolay Revtov Tom Mangham

VP North America VP Europe VP Eurasia VP Asia

Woody Lajara Ron Tyler Rod Story

VP Latin America Sr.VP Global Ministries Sr.VP Global Innovations
Acting VP Africa Acting VP Oceania

Covering every corner of the world

EE continental vice presidents have vast regions to cover with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Yet,
following Dr. Kennedy’s challenge for them to plant EE in every nation on earth, they accomplished that
mission in 1996. They continue to press on, taking the Gospel farther and farther.
 NCOMPASSING THE GLOBE Reports from our Vice Presidents
Latin America
Dr. Cecilio N. Lajara (Woody)
During the spring, a clinic was held in a Baptist camp in
the Amazon forest. The pastors had come for their annual
meeting. One pastor was 30 days by boat from his home. It
is quite common for the people in the Amazon to sleep in
hammocks at night, so the lodging was a big room (ceiling
and floor, no walls) with hooks for the hammocks they had
brought with them.
Enthusiasm was high. Pastors were eager to return
home to implement evangelism training. An 81-year-old man
participated in the clinic! One of the pastors, Pastor Raidno,
asked for prayer for his 100-year-old church to embrace the
training ministry. Six days later, he sent an email reporting
that, in the first week following the clinic, he had personally
led 11 people to Jesus Christ! He had already scheduled the
beginning of the training in his church.
The executive director for the Amazonian Baptist
Convention hopes to hold another four EE clinics to train
their other pastors and missionaries in the Amazon.
Dr. Ken Silva
Praise to God—ten people are in the process of joining our
North America Field Staff as missionary candidates!
Our goal is to double the number of field staff in North
America in the next two years. This will take us from 55 to 110.
Our prayer is to double the number of churches using
EE from 1,500 to 3,000, double the number trained from
16,000 to 32,000 and double the number of professions of
faith in Christ from 722,000 to 1.4 million!
Rev. George Verzea
Ovidiu is a Christian who has a deep love for God, for His
Word, and for lost people. He is a leader in his church and,
for years, had a burning desire to share the Gospel, but he
didn’t have the courage and didn’t see anyone else sharing
their faith.
Two weeks ago, he took part in an EE leadership
training clinic in Iasi, Romania. Following his first on-the-job
training experience, he approached Rev. George Verzea and
said, “George, for many years I was obsessed with the need
to share the Gospel, but I was afraid and I didn’t know how
to share it. Now, EE gives me a very simple and clear way to
share the Gospel, with determination and faith.”
Ovidiu will use EE to begin to train others how they
can share their faith with the lost, showing them what he has
learned in EE.
Dr. Nickolay Revtov
During an EE clinic in Dzhezkagan City, Kazakhstan, God
showed His strong and healing hand in a very special way.
During on-the-job training, clinicians faced a very troubling
reality. For a variety reasons, a large number of young people
in Dzhezkagan City are committing suicide. There are also a
high number of violent deaths.
EE trainers and trainees visited Valencia and her
family who were in dire need of God’s care. Forty days earlier,
Valencia’s 18-year-old grandson committed suicide. When
her husband found out what had happened, he suffered
a stroke. He was later diagnosed with having cancer in his
lymphoid system. Valencia went into depression with no
way out.
This was a challenging situation for the EE team. They
Rev. Tom Mangham
shared the Gospel with Valencia and prayed for her family.
Yanadi is the name of a tribal group in India. Most of these
The news about Jesus, the Comforter, touched her soul
villagers are snake and rat worshippers.
deeply. She was hopeless, but found hope in her Savior. She
David, an EE trainer, shared the Gospel with a witch
asked Jesus to come into her life.
doctor from the tribe named Subharaidu. Subharaidu made
a profession of faith in Christ and began telling his tribe
about Jesus Christ. Within three months, many of these
animal worshippers professed Jesus as their Savior. More
Rev. Rod Story than 40 of them were baptized. A number of these new
The D. James and Anne Kennedy International Training converts were trained in EE and a church has been planted.
Center for World Evangelism in Fiji continues to equip The spiritual darkness in India is evident by the
leaders from around the world. The Center will facilitate millions of people who worship animals there. Please
greater opportunities to train Christian leaders from Third continue to pray that more tribal people will have the
World countries. opportunity to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Richard and Sandra Harvey have accepted a full-time
position to assist at the Fiji center. They have just returned
Africa
from their first Implementation Field Worker’s training
course in Fiji. They worked with 24 wonderful Christian
Dr. Ron Tyler
leaders from many nations such as Cambodia, Vietnam,
The U.S. Department of State—Bureau of Consular Affairs
Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, East Malaysia,
discourages American citizens from travel to the Democratic
Fiji, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Indonesia, and the Philippines—a
Republic of Congo. With an important Kids’ EE clinic in
wonderful mix of nationalities.
Kinshasa, EE representative, Elise Stimpson, felt the calling
All participants were committed to making Christ
to go “irresistible.”
known in their country and around the world. Everyone
There were bumps in the road including lost luggage,
enjoyed the fellowship and learning from each other. By the
yet Elise called the training a wonderful ministry experience.
end of the five-week training the phrase “World Christian”
There were twenty-seven participants representing fifteen
took on a new and wonderful meaning. The wide range
different churches.
of academic abilities, ministry experiences, and cultural
The Gospel was shared with more than 100 children
differences created challenges. But the Lord enabled the
many of whom made professions of faith in Christ. Said Elise,
teaching team to achieve their objectives.
“The Lord opens hearts and changes lives. What a joy to be a
little part of what He is doing!”
XPANSION

T
wenty-five years ago, Woody Lajara, EE Vice
President for Latin America, translated the EE
materials into Spanish. Since then, the ministry
has taken root and blossomed throughout Latin America
including South America, Mexico, Central America, Spain,
and the Caribbean.
“Five years ago,” recalls Woody, “I was in the seaside city
of Barranquilla, Colombia (South America). I was sitting in
a park bench when I was approached by two young people
with tracts who wanted to share with me.”
Woody said to them, “This is good what you are doing.”
He then asked, “Can I help you enhance your presentation?”
The young lady agreed. So Woody asked them the two
EE diagnostic questions and they answered with “works”
answers. After Woody presented the Gospel, they both
professed Christ on their knees.
Later that day, the father of the young woman, a pastor,
visited Woody and, joyful about his daughter’s decision,
exclaimed “I can’t believe what happened to my daughter.”
 Immediately, Woody modeled an on-the-job training
experience with that pastor outside of his hotel. Two more
people professed Christ as Savior. The pastor was ecstatic
and asked Woody to come and train his congregation.
Instead, Woody encouraged the
pastor to get equipped during an
EE clinic and then train his own
people. The pastor signed up.
The pastor brought six lay
leaders with him to an EE clinic.
At that time, their church had
600 members. “Today, at this
same church in Barranquilla,”
Woody says, “there are 3,000
From left: Woody Lajara; Will Rodriguez, EE Director of N.A.
members. It has become a very Hispanic Ministries; and Pablo Mendez, Director for Latin America
strong EE clinic base.”
Their youth ministry has also experienced incredible
growth. Three hundred youth are involved in Youth EE.
The Basques of northern Spain
The Basques are clearly a distinct ethnic group in
their native region of northern Spain. They are culturally
and especially linguistically distinct from their surrounding
neighbors. Many Basques, especially in Spain, are strongly
nationalist, identifying far more firmly as Basques than
as citizens of any existing state. Indeed, the only question
would seem to be whether the term “ethnic group” is too
weak, and whether one should favor the term “nation.” The
majority of Basques are fervent Roman Catholics.
Awhile back, Woody taught a clinic in Vitoria of
northern Spain, with a large Basque population. A woman
named Maria attended the clinic. Her husband was a
cardiologist. Woody has had a recent history of heart
problems. When the cardiologist learned of this, he told
Woody that he would take care
of him during the clinic. Woody
remarked, “Please, let me take
care of you first.” He then asked
the doctor the two EE diagnostic
questions and shared the Gospel
with him. The doctor invited
Woody to their home for dinner
and more conversation.
While they dined, the
doctor’s son approached him and
asked his father for money. The
son had a history of drug-related problems. Upon seeing
Woody, he asked, “Who are you?” Woody explained. Soon
after, Woody had opportunity to share the Gospel with the
doctor’s son. In tears, the son professed Christ as Savior
on his knees. The father was stunned and asked Woody,
“What did you do? My son is crying. This is the first time
I’ve seen him cry. And he’s talking about Jesus Christ.”
Shortly after, the father prayed with Woody as he professed
Christ as his Savior.
Maria has since told Woody that, following the
clinic, 50 people in Vitoria have made professions of faith
in Christ. The Gospel is now spreading among the Basques
of northern Spain, and throughout the Latin America
countries, including Cuba.

LATIN AMERICAfacts
The first EE clinic was Latin America Population
conducted in 1983 in Sao More than 500 million
Paulo. Today: 2,500 churches Professions of Faith since 1983
have been involved in EE Millions
training.
 XCITEMENT

Equipping Our Growing Hispanic Communities

A
fter serving as the EE Caribbean Regional Director are new to EE. During clinic on-the-job training, the
for six years, Will Rodríguez is now in charge of Gospel was shared with 459 people and 80 percent made
the growing Hispanic ministry in North America, professions of faith in Christ.
a position he assumed in March They also conducted 31 Spanish
2006. Share Your Faith Workshops where more
In October 2006, Will and than 1,250 believers from 136 churches,
14 EE Hispanic leaders gathered more than half of them new to EE, have
at a “Vision for the Future” been trained to share Christ. Some clinic
conference with Rev. John B. administration seminars are taking place
Sorensen, then EE Executive to prepare new churches to become EE
Vice President. The support, clinic bases.
commitment, and ideas shared Will, with his wife, Tatita, are
by the attendees, representing excited about what God is doing among
the USA and Canada, brought Hispanics in North America. “Nothing
fresh concepts in clinic finances, can stop the work of God,” Will says. “We
planning, workshops, seminars, and other areas. During a have 12 steady EE Hispanic leaders planning the ministry for
second meeting of the leaders in May, 2007, they focused on the upcoming years. We have ten clinic-base churches with
developing clinic teachers to serve in different parts of North clinics planned for this year and more than 132 churches
America and abroad. actively involved in EE. This confirms that our labor is not in
Since he started, through March 2008, 11 EE Hispanic vain in the Lord.”
clinics have been conducted across North America training “For all of our leaders, it is wonderful for them to serve
155 pastors and leaders. They represented more than 100 the Lord in His harvest through Evangelism Explosion,” Will
different churches. More than 70 percent of those churches says. “We are secure in Christ’s everlasting love.”
 TERNITY
A Simple Bequest
Joe and Anna have been faithful supporters of Evangelism
Explosion. They believe it is important to support and
encourage the EE mission.
Joe: “Several years ago, Anna and I decided to become part
of the Evangelism Explosion mission. We believe that EE is
truly helping lead people to Christ and equipping others to
do the same. We think that it is important to partner with
them to make a difference. For that reason, Anna and I have
made gifts over the years to help others.”
Anna: “We wanted to do more than to just make gifts.
Joe and I have been careful over the years and have
accumulated some resources. We plan to be generous with
family, but we also have the ability to be generous with
charity. After talking it over, we decided to leave a bequest
in our will. Our attorney took the simple language available
from Evangelism Explosion and included a nice bequest.
We are delighted that we will be helping spread the Gospel
through EE.”
You also may want to make it easy and convenient to
have a bequest included in your will. The language below
shows how a bequest can very easily be included in your
will.
You may feel free to give this article to your attorney.
If you have any questions, please call John Fisher at
954-229-2037 or email at: jfisher@eeinternational.org
Example bequest language—please feel free to
change the numbers or percentages as you desire.
1. Bequest of cash
“I bequeath the sum of $10,000 to Evangelism Explosion
International, Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, FL.”
2. Bequest of a percent of the estate
“I devise and bequeath 20 percent of the remainder and
residue of property owned at my death, whether real or
personal, and wherever located to Evangelism Explosion
International, Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, FL.”
3. Contingent Bequest
“If my brother John Doe survives me, I devise and bequeath
20 percent of the remainder and residue of property owned
at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever
located to John Doe. If John Doe does not survive me,
then I devise and bequeath 20 percent of my residuary
estate, whether real or personal property and wherever
located to Evangelism Explosion International, Inc., of Fort
Lauderdale, FL.”
Lately there has been much discussion
about the internet, its “virtual world”,
and its impact for younger generations
who are so attracted to it, specifically
Generation X and Millennials. Is it good
or bad? We know the value, but is there a
dark side?
It’s clear from the following statistics gathered at https://breeze5.umn.edu/
didyouknow/ and Cyber Dialogue that current generational changes are like
nothing we could have ever imagined. Fifteen years ago, these stats would have
been perceived as outlandish, even mind blowing:
• One of eight married couples met online last year
• The number of text messages emailed every day
exceeds the population of the planet
• 2.7 billion searches are performed on Google
each month
• 47 million laptops were bought worldwide last year
• The average entertainment user spends $323 a
year online
• 51 percent of U.S. households say they are likely to
shop for their next car online

N
ot so long ago, in the early 90’s people actually visited
a library for information, licked a stamp to send mail,
called their bank to check their balance, and checked
the newspaper for baseball box scores. Then came www, the
superhighway, and things called browsers. Internet insanity has
transformed modern life. We make travel arrangements, shop,
stay in close touch with friends and family members half way
across the world, and pay our bills by simply tapping our fingertips
to a keyboard. Today, the internet is how we live, work, and play.
It’s bad when we don’t get our morning coffee fix, but it can be
even worse if our email is down.
Years ago, it would have been unthinkable to sit in your
living room and view a live satellite picture of your home beaming
from your computer monitor.
Consider the new words added to our lexicon. Words like
spam, blog, cyberspace, bandwidth, login, and download are just
a few. With email and live chat sessions, the internet has spawned
an entire language unto itself, as basic as “:)” for happy, and as
obscure as “P911” for Parent Alert. The current number of people
on the web is one billion and growing.
The web gives us a myriad of conveniences and tools, but
it has also introduced a host of age-inappropriate information,
internet fraud, and stolen identities. Unfortunately, it’s an arena
where sexual predators focus much of their dirty work. Yes,
the web can be wonderful, but there are bad people out there
exploiting it.
Younger generations are taking the web to the next level.
It’s called virtual life. If you don’t know what it means, you’re
showing your age. Today, literally hundreds of thousands of people
live, associate, and do honest-to-goodness business with honest-
to-goodness careers without leaving the confines of their laptops.
“Interactive” is the buzzword and kids are “cyberbabbling” with
each other for hours-on-end daily. An issue is that it can go largely
unnoticed by parents because they are typically far less technologically
savvy than their children.
One site in particular, secondlife.com, has “residents” who
journey into cyberspace creating their own communities as humans
called “avatars” with imaginary lives. But are they really imaginary? It
all sounds like some odd mutation from the movie, The Matrix. It’s • The popular Facebook site allows you to
nothing new to Gen X and Millennials. Virtual reality sites began back connect with people worldwide |
in 2003. Now there’s a plethora of them like Facebook, Friendster,
Orkut, and MySpace.
How popular are these sites? A statistic from breeze5 states that
if MySpace were a country it would be the 11th largest country in the
world!
This is not foreign to Christians who have jumped into the
virtual pool with Christian social networking sites such as Dittytalk,
MyPraize, Xianz, Cmatch 5loaves, YourChristianSpace, Christianster,
and Battle Cry.
Virtual life. It boggles the minds of people who are baby
boomers and older. At secondlife, people create their own fake • More unusual is the SecondLife sight
names, fake identities, fake residences, buy their own fake stuff which has thousands of residents who
(and try to organize it in virtual folders), and many of them conduct login to move around in a simulated
world to interact with others. Residents
actual business for U.S. dollars. They are buying and selling in virtual
create the way they appear and can
environments using real American currency! build, buy, and own parcels of land. Some
By networking online, you can really become anyone you want churches have established a presence
to. You can pretend you’re a superhero if it’s something you always in SecondLife as a way to connect and
offset the darker aspects of the site. |
dreamed of. Talk about power to the people! Who would ever know
the truth?
Rick Bond, Vice President for Youth EE, says that these virtual
worlds give kids more control over exactly what other people see and
know about them whether it’s information that’s honest, or not. “They “For young people they
feel safer in the virtual world than in the real world,” Rick says. “When
it gets as big as MySpace, it goes beyond fad. So we’re in the process of
can be whoever they
carefully studying the implications of “virtual reality” for the Church.” want to be. And it can
be very addicting.”
 Are these just sophisticated video games? Or are virtual world can become, for youth, a safe substitute
people searching, hoping for something better, like the for real relationships,” Rick says. “And, in their minds,
perfect life, or something bigger than life—online? Is it a these relationships are every bit as real to them as real
passing fad, like the game “Pong” from the 70’s? Should the relationships are to us.”
Church be alarmed? To the youth of today, the virtual world is a whole
Many detractors believe such online communities
are of the devil. Others say that these create opportunities “To the youth of today, the virtual
to reach captive audiences with the Gospel. One church world is a whole society, a culture
marketing site said this, “If churches, or Christians in that becomes very powerful and
general, want to interact with the world and tell them attractive. Psychologists say that
about Jesus, it’s not going to happen on a sanitized, our deepest needs are to have
sanctified, Christian version of a popular social networking love and acceptance. With that in
site.” mind, kids perceive that the virtual
But if people adopt that approach, they have to step world is meeting those needs
carefully. One teen at YourChristianSpace said she avoids better than the real thing.”
the secular networking sites. “Every time I would visit, I
would get hit on by some 50-year-old man,” she said. “So I society, a culture that becomes very powerful and attractive.
stopped going.” Psychologists say that our deepest needs are to have love
Rick wrestles with generational issues daily in his and acceptance. With that in mind, kids perceive that the
pursuit to reach the virtual world is meeting those
younger generations. needs better than the real thing. So
“One of the ways kids we can understand the addiction.
cope with the harsh “Technology has made this
realities of life is to possible,” Rick exclaims. “I’m not
participate in these sure in our civilized history if there
fantasy worlds,” Rick is any precedent for this trend.”
says. “For young people, Rod Story is EE’s
they can be whoever they Senior Vice President for Global
want to be. And it can be Innovations. He has worked
very addicting.” diligently to help develop XEE,
It only takes one a unique new EE product aimed
attempt to get your at younger generations. Rod says
son or daughter off the that for some kids, virtual life is an
computer to understand escape. But is an escape all bad?
the “A” word. According With most parents trailing their
to a generational study kids with a schedule and clipboard
by Jenna Reith, 13 to 18- screaming, “My child cannot waste
year-olds spend an average of six hours per day in front of a time!” maybe an escape is good.
screen (including television, movies, and computer). But what about an internet escape? “There are
Addiction is just one issue that raises alarm. “The thousands of kids around us that are disillusioned with real
 life, or do not understand the complexities of real life, and
therefore seek an escape,” Rod says. “It becomes difficult to
connect with them. The potential danger is that many young
people could be drawn into an escape from reality, rather than
attempt to deal with it.”
Is this any different from the introduction of
television in the 60’s? Were alarms raised then? We have
learned that if the family has strong relationships and a
system of teaching its values in place (verbally or non-
verbally), the media, generally, has minimal impact on the
child. However, if there is a vacuum in the family in this
area, the media and peers fill the void.
In an article for the Center for Generational Studies,
Robert W. Wendover, states that since the majority of
human communication is non-verbal today, “one has to
wonder how their ability to empathize, encourage, persuade
and resolve differences will evolve over time. Further, what
impact will this have on society and the children they raise?”
Is the technology that connects them to the world
the same technology that cuts them off from the social
interactions that have historically prepared young people
for the transition into adulthood?
Reaching Every Person with the Gospel
2007 Accomplishments
Number of leadership training clinics
1,100
Number of believers equipped
More than 225,000
Number of professions in Christ
5.1 million
How does the Body of Christ connect with them?
The answers to these questions certainly vary and can
be as individual as each of our unique personalities. But
understanding their particular generational “topography”
may be a good place to start.
An article from the CBS evening news in December
of 2006 points out that youth pastors have to find new and
creative ways to enter the world of the teenager.
According to the article, youth minister, Lincoln
Skinner, uses every high-tech tool he can find to pull kids in.
His high schoolers have a MySpace webpage, where Lincoln
drops in with messages about upcoming events.
“We are always on MySpace. We always have our iPods.
We always have our cell phones,” says Dylan, a youth group
member.
The fact is, for sheer excitement, impact, and crazy
convenience, nothing quite compares with the introduction
of the worldwideweb. For all of its good, and all of its
bad, the impact of the internet for the Christian Church
becomes a love/hate relationship.
15-year Estimates
2000 to 2015
Number of leadership training clinics
More than 20,000
Number of believers equipped
More than 4.5 million
Number of professions in Christ
More than 100 million
 XPERIENCES
H
ow can a few words change a life? For Matt
Moffett, it was a simple invitation from his pastor
in May of 1999. “Matt, how about joining me at
an EE clinic in Campbell River, British Columbia?” asked Dr.
Ken Silva, who was Matt’s pastor at River Oak Grace Church
in Oakdale, CA.
EE clinics are intensive five-day events. Giving up,
essentially, one week, is a tough assignment for anyone.
At first, Matt was apprehensive. “I did not know much
about EE at the time,” Matt says. “It seemed like so much to
memorize.”
The invitation from Ken came at a critical time in the
Moffetts’ lives. “God was taking us through some radical
changes,” Matt says. “I had just left my career of 18 years. My
wife and I were looking for what God was going to change in
our lives.” Matt discussed attending the clinic with his wife
and decided to go.
Even before arriving at the clinic, Matt had an
“awakening” of sorts. “I had an opportunity to share my
faith with the person sitting next to me on the plane ride,”
Matt recalls, “but realized that I was not able to present the
Gospel.” Matt called the experience “ironic” that he was on
his way to an EE clinic, but didn’t know how to lead anyone
to Christ.
Three days later, following a few days of EE training,
Matt found himself at the door of a home in Campbell River.
It was his first on-the-job witnessing experience. “I was
able to share the Good News and a young woman made a
profession of faith in Christ.” He was hooked.
Two years later, he joined 18 other EE trainers from
across the United States, who traveled to Lilongwe, Malawi,
in Africa to equip 165 English-speaking African students at
the African Bible College. “I had no idea where Malawi was,”
remembers Matt.
At most EE clinics, a trainer will have two others in
their “charge.” This clinic was especially challenging in that
each trainer was assigned not two, but ten students. All of
the students worked hard and, by clinic’s end, had learned
the EE outline.
“All of my students were sharing the Good News in
their native language of Chichewa,” Matt says. “Here I was
more than 10,000 miles from home standing on the dirt
roads of an African village in Lilongwe. I, too, wanted to
share, so I prayed that God would send someone my way
who could speak English.”
Within minutes Matt spotted a man running toward
him. His first thoughts were to run away, but instead, he
stayed. “Are you the one who is telling people about Jesus?”
the man asked. Matt responded positively, and the man, about reasons to stay home,” exclaims Matt.
named Andrew, exclaimed that he wanted to know about They still had little doubt that God wanted them in
this Jesus. “I have been looking for your team for the past Malawi. The most difficult task was telling their then 14-
three days,” said Andrew. year-old daughter and 11-year-old son. “To our surprise,” says
Matt shared the Gospel with Andrew and Andrew’s Matt, “our kids were all for it.”
response was, “Yes, that’s it!” On a street in Malawi, God Then came the tough assignment of resigning their
had, once again, gripped Matt’s heart for sharing the Good jobs and support raising. “Within six months, God had
News. blessed us with enough support to go,” says Matt.
After returning to his home “We sold our house, cars, and anything
church in Oakdale, Matt realized else that we did not need in Africa,
that EE was a “life-calling to and loaded everything else on a
train others.” In 2003, Matt container to ship to Malawi.”
returned to the African Today, the Moffets Matt remembers praying
Bible College in Malawi, begin their fourth to God about his sacrifice
this time with his wife. year of teaching at of giving up his material
He re-connected with the African Bible goods. “God responded
many of the students College that it wouldn’t be a
he met during his first sacrifice,” Matt says. “We
trip. He and his wife have been blessed in
participated in village so many ways since that
outreaches where many time.”
people gave their hearts to All of the details were
Christ. But he discovered a hole falling into place, that is, until
in the hearts of the students who he they learned later that their container
had helped train. “Yes, EE was a tool so of goods was lost at sea. But that did little
simple and easy to understand,” they said. “But no to dampen the enthusiasm of this missionary family
one stayed to teach us how to implement EE.” Matt and his following the call of God.
wife agreed that they needed to return to the African Bible Today, the Moffetts begin their fourth year of teaching
College and assist the students in implementing the EE at the African Bible College. God is expanding their
ministry. responsibilities as they begin to develop EE on a national
While meeting with the director of the college, they basis in Malawi.
were given a second life-altering invitation, much different “We look forward to seeing God continue to shape us
from Dr. Silva’s invitation to join him at a clinic. “Come join and lead us in the equipping of Christian leaders all over the
us full-time on staff here,” said the director. Malawi nation,” Matt says.
Their acceptance of the offer was immediate. Yet,
there were issues to work through. Before heading to Africa, Make your missionary dream come true.
Matt’s mom was diagnosed with cancer, and their oldest Contact Shirley Beattie:
daughter was pregnant with their first grandson. “Talk sbeattie@eeinternational.org
 QUIPPING IN ACTION

SaRang Community Church

is Serious About Training Laity with EE

SaRang Community Church

Senior Pastor: Rev. Jung-Hyun Oh
More than 3,000 EE trainers
Gospel presented to more than 58,000 people
More than 35,000 professions of faith in Christ

T
he SaRang Community Church in Seoul, South Jae Myung Lee was trained in EE at the SaRang
Korea, was established in 1978 with nine members. Church. He became a bold witness for Christ. He reached
The church started EE in 1985. In 1987, the church out to six members of a gang who had been convicted of
hosted its first EE Leadership Training Clinic and has murder. Their sentence was so severe that no one could visit
faithfully conducted one them. Lee and several EE teachers
clinic every year since then. and trainers prayed for these men
The results are and received an opportunity to
astounding. Today, the communicate with them by letter.
number of “attending Lee wrote several letters to them
members” during Sunday and presented the Gospel. All of
services totals 46,000! The them made professions of faith
church has 2,600 small in Christ. Before their execution,
group leaders. they gave praise to God.
EE is the main The SaRang Church
ministry of outreach to the remains committed to missions
incarcerated, to the Korean with three mission centers abroad
military, to the elderly, to and the church supports 130
those in the city, and in the missionaries worldwide.
rural areas of South Korea. The SaRang Community Church It is amazing that the SaRang Church, with nine members in
requires that every sending missionary from their church 1978, is now a thriving, energized church of thousands.
must first participate in the multi-level EE training before During semesters of EE, church classrooms are packed. The
they are considered as missionary candidates. The church church is effectively reaching into its communities and the
conducts two classic EE classes each semester, and runs two world. For more information on EE training, visit
semesters per year. eeworks.org.
 NEWS
Putting the “van” in Evangelism
G I
lasgow Elim Church in Glasgow, Scotland, is
reaching out to its community in a creative way.
It first took answered prayer from God for a strategy
on how to engage their community with servant evangelism.
Near the church are a number of bakeries. Each day, it
has become tradition for people to lunch at the bakeries. One
of the more popular items for sale are delicious, old-fashioned
rolls. One of the bakeries alone sells 1,000 of these bread rolls
every day. Many of the “blue collar” workers eat the rolls in
their vans while sitting beside the road and dump the trash
out their windows.
Glasgow Elim’s idea was literally a bunch of rubbish!
They offered to dispose of the garbage before the workers
could litter it. They not only asked the workers for their
rubbish, but also gave away car air fresheners that included a
sticker with the church address, phone number, and web site
address.
“Everyday,” said one church member, “we would knock
on the windows of the vans, ask if the drivers had any rubbish
they wanted us to get rid of, offer to clean their cab, and give
them a free air freshener.”
During this “leisurely” time for the workers, church
members also share the Gospel using EE.
One of the recent professions of faith in Christ came
from a couple desperate to improve their lives. “The man was
trying to overcome his addiction to methamphetamine and
had been involved in armed robbery,” said a church member.
“He was living with his girl friend and her son.”
After sharing the Gospel, the couple agreed that they
wanted Jesus to work on their “insides,” in their hearts.
It’s a “trashy” concept, and a wonderfully unique way to
share the love of Jesus!
Equipping 100,000 Kids to Witness
t is estimated that over 500,000 children ages 6-14 live
in Christian hostels and orphanages in India. Most of
these children attend secular schools near their living
facilities and the children living in hostels periodically visit
their non-Christian families. This is a mission field for the
Kids’ EE training.
Kids’ EE has three key objectives: 1) Clarify the
Gospel for children at a time in their lives when they are
asking questions about what faith in Jesus means, 2) win
children to saving faith in Jesus at a time when they’re most
receptive to receiving Him as Savior, and 3) train children to
become witnesses for Jesus Christ at a time when they are
establishing habits for a lifetime.
Those who have implemented Kids’ EE tell us of the
joy they have in seeing children respond to it. “It is such a
gift to give this tool to our children,” one certified Kids’ EE
Teacher has shared. Others have said, “It’s just amazing to
watch them share the Gospel during on-the-job training.”
The Kids’ EE supplemental teaching materials are
printed in eight major Indian languages. The new Kids’ EE
World Manual has also been translated in these languages.
Three special Kids’ Clinic Teacher Seminars and
model clinics are being planned to prepare additional
teachers for this task. These seminars/clinics were
scheduled in Chennai from January 16-21, in Bangalore from
January 23-28 and in Calcutta from January 30-February 4.
The Lord has opened doors and made the training
materials, staff, and other resources available to accomplish
this goal. The only thing lacking is His funds to carry it out.
Please keep this in your prayers.
 NDEAVORS
K
habarovsk is a city near the Pacific Ocean in
eastern Siberia. Between 1930 and 1950, Siberia
became Stalin’s “prison.” Stalin sent those whom
he considered dangerous or a threat to his power to Siberian
cities. Recently, Nickolay Revtov, EE Vice President for
Eurasia, traveled there.
Jews from all Soviet Union territories were sent to this
wasteland that Stalin named the “Jewish
Autonomous Republic.” Due to the
severe climate, various diseases, and
poor living conditions, many Jews died
here.
Today, even though most of
the Jews have departed, the Russian
authorities still call this area, “Jewish
Autonomous Republic.”
The EE Director here is Igor Olkhov. “We came to
Khabarovsk to train church leaders in EE so that they, in turn,
can train other Christians,” Nickolay says. “Our goal is to fulfill
the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ to take the
Gospel to lost people.”
God blessed the clinic. The on-the-job training was
successful. 95 people heard the Gospel and 23 of them
professed faith in Christ.
Even in the vast corners of the Soviet Union, the Gospel
is spreading. Within the harsh realities of life in Siberia, people
are hearing the Good News and are being transformed for
Christ. The Gospel through Evangelism Explosion moves
forward.
Russia occupies eleven time zones. When Nickolay
travels from Ukraine to the USA, he crosses seven of them. It
is an amazing land. God blessed this land with vast mineral
resources—41 percent of all worldwide
resources. Sadly, in the last century, more than
100 million people, more than in any other
country, lost their lives from revolution, wars,
and the genocide of Stalin. In light of the
spiritual poverty there, Nickolay questions,
“Is God’s blessing upon Russia?” Evangelical
Christians make up just 0.2-0.3 percent of the
population.
Last year, in European Russia and the Far East, 16
EE leadership clinics were conducted and more than 320
church leaders were equipped. They, in turn, have equipped
more than 1,300 church members. As a result, more than
5,700 people received God’s gift of eternal life! “It is just the
beginning,” exclaims Nickolay. “We praise the Lord for this.”
“I cannot fully explain what the Russian soul is, any
more than Tolstoy or Dostoevsky could,” Nickolay says, “but I
know for sure that any Russian soul needs Jesus very much!”
 ANSWERMAN

What to Do When You Get,“There are many ways

to God. Jesus isn’t the only way.”

A
ll of the world’s religions can be gathered Christ for eternal life.
into two camps. Into the first camp are the It is sin that becomes the central issue. None of
religions that claim that you have to DO the good works done can wash away sin. The Bible is
something to get to God/ clear: “For the one who
Heaven. One accurate obeys the whole law
definition of the word but fails in one point
“religion” is this: man’s has become guilty of all
attempt to make himself of it” (James 2:10). We
right before God. all fall into that camp.
Some religions Some may
believe that if their respond, “Fine, then
followers go to church I’ll trust in Christ for
on Sundays and do good my salvation, and
works, they will get to since I do not have to
Heaven based on those DO anything, I’ll live
actions. Others believe anyway I please.”
that getting to God is about For someone
how many times one prays to respond in this
each day, or practicing manner, only illustrates
ceremonial washings. that they never
Therefore, each good work truly made a sincere
is another rung climbed up profession of faith in
the ladder to Heaven. Jesus Christ. Sincerely
True Christianity trusting in Christ alone
stands alone because for one’s salvation
salvation to the Christian is not based on what he/she brings true life change, repentance. Does it mean that a
can DO. It’s based on what has been DONE, namely believer never sins again? No. But it does mean that the
Christ’s death on the cross that has paid the penalty sanctification process, being made closer to the image
for our sin. Christianity is not about “religion” but of Christ, begins.
about “relationship,” specifically, trusting alone in Jesus
Field workers needed across
the United States
“Together, we can change the world!”
Those words stated years ago as a challenge to the people of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
by the late Dr. D. James Kennedy had far reaching implications…many of which none of us
dreamed God would bring about. However, those words are still just as true today as they were
Dr. Ken Silva
then. Evangelism Explosion is launching a Strategic American Initiative aimed at placing field VP North America
workers into every community and region in the United States. This task is one that is necessary
for us to turn our country around through the local church. You have read in this issue of Multiply
the God-sized vision and exciting things going on at EE. We can now offer XEE and other
avenues to churches that may no longer look at EE as relevant. This will also allow us to connect
with younger pastors looking for a way to reach the X and Y generations and to disciple their
church families. We pray that you will consider supporting this initiative both with your finances
and possibly with your life-by becoming a North American Field Worker somewhere…and
together, we can change the world!
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