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Expanding the Outreach! |
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Since the founding of Asia Reach Ministries, our scriptural strategy for reaching Asia with the Word of God is: 1) Evangelize the lost, 2) Establish churches, 3) Equip the faithful, and 4) Expand the outreach. We focused on implementing that strategy in partnership with our American supporters and our Asian brethren across Asia, usually in closed and gospel-resistant locations. God blessed our teamwork and our testimony. Potential teammates asked about our helping them reach places on other continents – to expand the outreach of our Mission itself to a global perspective. Of course, that would require a significant transformation of the Mission. Our Executive Leadership Team discussed the proposal with Pastor Payne and several other pastors who extensively support our missionaries and ministries. We received hearty endorsements from them all. We presented the proposal to Midland Baptist, our home church, and they voted unanimously in favor of it. So, as 2010, our eighth year of operations, drew to a close, we prayerfully committed ourselves to this expanded outreach. Our now expanded purpose is to reach through the barriers with the Word of God to closed and gospel-resistant locations – and the regions beyond around the world. We will focus on reaching through the barriers in whatever form they take; religious, political, cultural, or geographical or any combination or variation thereof. We are a local church ministry empowering local church missionaries to reach the world with the Word of God! |
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