Monday, February 05, 2007

Celebrating 20 Years!

Back in January, e3 Partners Ministry held its international conference which we have every other year. This conference was extra special because e3 Partners was celebrating its 20th anniversary! We actually flew in around 30 of our international coordinators to make it a true family reunion. We had a great time of fellowship and praise to God for all he has done through e3 (formerly Global Missions Fellowship). I would like to share with you some statistics and a great exposition from our e3 president Curtis Hail that I hope will cause you to give Glory to God!
Celebrating 20 Years of God’s Blessings…

______________________Yrs 1-18___Yrs 19-20_____Total
Campaigns Conducted_______952______253_______1,205
Americans Mobilized______17,359_____5,228_____22,587
Nationals Equipped_______51,038___209,455____260,493
People Evangelized____1,735,900__1,516,323__3,512,716
Professions of Faith_____491,499___528,859___1,020,358
Churches Established______4,452_____5,937_____10,389


Trusting God to use e3 to…

Equip 10 million Christians to
Evangelize 1 billion people and
Establish 1 Million Churches!

A bright tomorrow!

With 3,000 Americans mobilized annually and a budget of $4,000,000 we project the potential to see this doubled again in the next two to three years, as we could potentially...

Equip 600,000 nationals to
Evangelize 7.2 million people and
(winning perhaps 2 million to Christ)
Establish at least 8,000 new churches!

Remember - these are all First Generation stats and projections only!


From Curtis Hail [President of e3 Partners Ministry]:

"God has blessed us with a wonderful history and substantial ministry for twenty years now. We began taking just a few teams to Mexico in 1987 and now we take about 150 per year to some 30 or more countries. Over those two decades we have now conducted over 1,200 short term church planting campaigns, mobilizing around 23,000 North Americans (we plan to take another 3,000 people just in 2007!). Today, e3 Partners also provides the national church leaders Evangecubes, First Steps church planting materials and training resources so they can continue mobilizing their own churches year round – long after we come home or to places we can never get to with our U.S. teams!

We are thrilled to report that through the long and, now, comprehensive ministry of e3 Partners, we’ve been blessed to see one million people accept Christ – out of an estimated three million evangelized – as ten thousand new churches have been planted. (Sure, we know that not all the churches made it but we also know that many have gone on to plant multiple generations of daughter and grand-daughter and great-grand-daughter churches! Just like so many of the people in our Evangecube training have gone on beyond the training sessions to personally lead hundreds to Christ throughout the following year! So, we are only seeing and reporting the tip of the iceberg.)

God is moving in an awesome way around the world in these days. And so it is at e3 Partners as well. God used us to win about ½ million people to Christ and plant around 5,000 new churches in our first 18 years. Now, in just the last two years He has doubled those numbers to one million people professing faith in Christ and ten thousand new churches – again just as a direct, immediate result of the e3 Mission teams and the e3 Training strategy! And here is the amazing thing – today God has positioned us with the national leaders and networks on the field, the tools and strategy, the staff and infrastructure and now the experience to be able to double that again in just the next year or so!

We have the opportunity before us to equip at least 600,000 leaders and laymen in 19 countries to evangelize 7.2 million people. Based on the confirmed reports to-date, we can expect nearly 2 million people to receive Christ and we can help plant at least 8,000 new churches! By the grace of God! Here is all we are lacking, as God goes before us...

  1. An army of Pray-ers to pray for these believers, for their nations, for e3 Partners and to pray according to Matthew 9:38, “Pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into his [ripe] harvest field.” Just imagine if one million people around the world prayed this prayer daily!

  2. An army of 5,000 Go-ers who will go on one of our upcoming e3 Mission trips to help equip, encourage and mobilize our national partners in these countries – giving them the vision, experience and head-start to win souls and plant churches. (3,000 in 2007, but we should be taking more!!)

  3. And Giv-ers – We are asking God to raise up an army of 20,000 financial partners to connect with these national leaders - empowering them with the resources to mobilize THEIR churches to equip, evangelize and establish! Sure, like Gideon, we need a few hundred major donors underwriting large national level strategies – and that is great – but we also offer everyone an opportunity to make a global impact at their own personal stewardship level. The blessings are open to all – and they all count equally!

YOU can make THE difference. Join with us as we partner with God and His people around the world. There is power in partnership – we’ve seen God use it to win a million and plant 10,000 churches. Let’s ask Him to use us to see that happen again in the next two years! All for His glory!"

THANK YOU for your partnership in this ministry!