CPD Church Planting Update - Summer 2020

This is my first connection with all of you in my new role as Church Planting Director for the Central Pacific District.

I appreciate your support and prayers. Your prayers and collaboration are needed as I begin this new adventure, as I won’t be able to serve in this role without your help! Each one of you is needed as we need all of the big, medium, and small CPD churches to join me on this journey. I will do my best, and I trust my Lord Christ Jesus to guide me on this new role.

Today, I would like to present officially the most recent churches planted in our District:

Howdy CPD Family,

Crazy Days! Big News! God has called my family onward!!

Please check out my video to get the skinny on my upcoming move out of the CPD. I love you guys lots and will miss you!! Give me a jingle if ya wanna....

To the ends of the earth,

Tim 

Four Testimonies from Leaders in the CPD

Testimony from Edgar castro

Today, I would like to share my personal experience at the CPD and the experiences of some other brethren.

When they called me to work at the CPD, I personally believed it would be challenging for me, because within me, I knew about my limitations, such as my English accent and being a Hispanic. I knew that the CPD never had a Hispanic person as a part of the staff, which was scary for me.

Every day, I came to work, expecting that one of my Anglo-American colleagues would be telling me something negative about my English accent or my origin, but that never happened. All District staff, without exception, have always have seen me, and continue to treat me, not as a Hispanic, but as their brother in Christ.

I'm super excited to be sharing with you this update from my friend Catie who serves in Cambodia! Be encouraged - God is doing great things through our Alliance workers all around the world. Happy reading...

Tim

God is Preparing My Ministry 

Last year we started dreaming up me partnering with the national C&MA church (KEC) to help them start a media ministry. We envisioned monthly videos on the work of the church. We envisioned a team of people I would train from all the regions to shoot and edit videos. We envisioned monthly testimonies from believers on ways they've seen God transform their lives and call them to Himself. We envisioned training materials to be shared through social media platforms in ways that would reach the national church and as a form of witness and evangelism to those who do not yet know the gospel.

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The response to our first video of CPD blessings was so positive, I am sharing another video compilation of our pastors who shared a ONE MINUTE video. I encourage you to take six minutes to watch it. I’m positive it will be a blessing to you!

I’ve already got some more ONE MINUTE videos, but I can use more! Please send me a video of an unexpected blessing that you have experienced to our Dropbox folder by clicking here.

I will share another compilation next week. Will yours be a part of it?

Let’s encourage one another during this challenging time.

Mike

Many of you are wondering how our International Workers (IWs) are doing and how Alliance Missions efforts are being affected by COVID-19. Below are some questions that have been answered by Tim Crouch, VP for Alliance Missions.

Also, I know times are tough right now financially in many ways, but let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest of righteousness – if we do not give up!!

Let’s do our best to keep Alliance Missions on our priority lists at some level! I believe God will multiply our efforts greatly!! Please enjoy the read below…

On Thursday, April 16, 2020 several of our workers, including the District Staff, attended the EguippingU webinar entitled, Leading the Church in the Post-COVID Era.

This webinar was the best discussion I have seen so far about planning for the changes that will inevitably come to the church after the crisis has passed. When will that happen? The answer to that question is far from certain, but it is certain that this COVID-19 crisis will come to an end at some point.

We all need encouragement to be prepared for the fallout of the shelter in place experience. It will have an effect on our congregants both personally and financially. These effects will certainly be felt in the church. I encourage all of us to realize we are partners in this journey. Let’s reach out to one another, call on the District staff for assistance, and share prayer requests with one another.

We are not alone!