As many of you know I have been given the responsibility to enlarge the understanding of what this JONATHAN Ministry is all about here in America! Essentially what this means is I am to speak and represent STADIA INTERNATIONAL-JONATHAN PROJECT to anybody and everybody. I can tell you that that is happening...all over the place. Let me explain.
- Whenever I speak someplace I represent this global vision and ministry. I wish you could ride along with me as people are very engaged in getting the Gospel to the "least reached" and are very excited when they know they can make an eternal difference in the lives of an unreached people group...an eternal difference! Think about that!
- Conventions are a very important place to meet a whole lot of people very quickly. Our first such convention this year will be in Orlando, FL, where 3,500+ church planters will be gathering. We have a strategy all prepared to end up with all 3,500 attendees giving us their email addresses...happily and gladly! The purpose for securing these emails is so we can send out a regular "email blast" talking about STADIA INTERNATIONAL-JONATHAN PROJECT! It is a cool idea we have and once we get back from that Convention I will let you in on the secret! But just think of it: In three days time, 3,500 new names to our email list, reading regularly about SI/JP! Pretty incredible!
- I meet with CPN's. CPN's are "Church Planting Networks." Essentially this would be a group of church planters in a shared geographical area. The Planters get together on a regular basis. I attend those meetings when they get together. Once again, it is telling our story to a group of folk who are decision makers and who have a heart for starting churches. And once their churches begin to think globally, we are there. The DNA that started the church here in America is the same DNA globally! There is a shared vision!
- I meet with individuals. We do this whenever and wherever we can. In a short time Judy and I will be traveling through parts of the USA we have never seen before. We will be meeting with Church Planters we have never met before, telling our story. They then in turn tell others the story and thus it spreads and expands.
- Finally, we are training the leaders of a very large Mission Agency in the JONATHAN model of planting multiplying churches in very difficult least reach people groups. This Agency with over 300 missionaries in 40 different nations around the world also specializes in preaching the Gospel to the least reached. We have a shared vision for the world. In training the leaders in this Agency we are saying, "now you train the rest of your people." That is our overall model: We train people who train people who in turn train people who themselves can train others. That is how the church exploded in the First Century and that is how we want to see the church explode exponentially in our lifetime!
So, there you have it. What I have just written about is what we are doing...and gladly. If you would like to hear the story give us a call and we'll be happy to set a time and share this vision with you, or your Global Team, or your church...you get the point!
Prayers for covering the earth with the message of Jesus,
Graydon and Judy Jessup
714.488.7922
graydonandjudy.blogspot.com
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