La Paz, Bolivia
Kairos in La Paz, Bolivia will have it's first Global Celebration this year. I have been working with this church for nearly 2 years now in helping them to integrate missions into every aspect of the life of their church, and mobiize each member to participate in Christ's mission locally and globally. I was able to spend 2 days with them in La Paz helping them with their Global Celebration team. We have been able to divide up all of the responsibilities of the celebration with different teams all made up of lay members of the church.
The members are not only getting involved personally in missions, but they are also helping to plan and organize their Global Celebration. They will bring in more than 20 missionaries and projects to the church for 5 days where each one of the members of this church of over 1,000 will hear personally from different missionaries in order to mobilize their people to greater prayer from missions, greater financial sacrifice and personal involvement.
Not only was I able to mentor their GC team, but also listen to the testimony of pastor Mauricio and members of the church that just returned from Central Asia, where they worked with the house church of one of Connect Global's workers in that closed country. They were able to distribute "books" and preach in the house churches meetings and encourage believers from this part of the world that they are not alone when they face their certain persecution, that brothers and sisters from Latin America are with them in the battle. In the last year, this church has made 2 different trips to the the 2 most closed countries on earth. This is what Global Focus is doing in Latin America; the churches are not just making trips, but they are strategically working to get the Gospel where the Gospel has not gone because of great persecution.