House Church Planting Team Invitation 10-21-07

I am writing to encourage you to ask the Lord of the harvest to use you and your network in putting together a church planting team for Venezuela. Travel together to Caracas, Venezuela in January for a minimum of ten days to start a new network of house churches as part of the follow up of a stadium crusade. Venezuela crusade leaders will place in your hands 100 to 300 decision cards over a five day period of new Christians located in a specific part of the city. Contact each of them by phone in the first 24 hours of their new walk in Christ. Make appointments for meeting together and introduce the rest of their family to Christ. Help them form new churches. Extensive HC training has been conducted this year with established Christians in traditional churches who are excited about simple church life. Feel free to start free churches or you can partner up with a trained simple church advocate native to Caracas. Venezuela leaders have committed to help furnish bilingual interpreters to help in the process. As you are there you will discover and build relationships with persons of peace. When you return to the states you can keep in touch thru inexpensive modern communications to help nurture the new networks over time. God will show you how to proceed. Please reply to initiate the process of discernment and receive update information. Feel free to forward this invitation. All simple church advocates are welcome to inquire.

Venezuela evangelicals are planning an evangelistic stadium crusade in the capitol city of Caracas January 24-27, 2008.

North American house church advocates have been asked to help start 1000 house churches in Venezuela.

Team Schedules:
1. Register ASAP to insure most economic travel arrangements approx $1500 to $2000 including airfare.

2. January 23: Travel to Caracas check in to the hotel near stadium.

3. January 24: Team orientation and counselor training all day. Meet with interpreters and local house church advocates. Interpreter for each two team members. Serve as counselors in the crusade in the evenings 24-27.

4. January 25-28: Receive commitment cards early sorted to a specific area of Caracas. Begin immediate follow up with phone calls to make appointments then pursue appointments as lead.

5. January 29- February 3: Continue follow up and church start activities as lead.

6. February 4: Check out of hotel. Return travel to USA or pursue plans to continue as you determine at your own discretion.

Caracas is the most unevangelized large city in South America with only two percent evangelical Christians. They are expecting 10,000 to 30,000 professions of faith. To follow up this many decisions for Christ is an overwhelming task for Caracas believers.

Evangelical leader and DAWN Ministries International associate Jocobo Garcia says, “These are perilous times in Venezuela. Now is the hour for Spiritual awaking in our country.”

Team Invitation 10-20-07

Venezuelan Evangelicals are crying out to God for their nation. Ps 2:8, 'Ask of Me and I will give you the nations.' North American simple church advocates have been asked to help. In connection with the evangelistic crusade January 24-27 they have set a goal of starting 1000 house churches. Many of us have done everything possible to train Venezuelan evangelical house church advocates. Virtually all these are from established traditional and cell based churches. In addition to this it is my belief that as many of us as possible need to plant free house churches that are not attached to traditional churches or denominations or even traditional evangelicals. These types of starts will be less likely to be integrated into established circles of influence and thus have an extraordinary possibility of multiplication to the uttermost part. Here is where you come in. Venezuelan Evangelicals are asking us to come and plant churches with new Christians who make commitments at the stadium crusade in Caracas. We can then stay in touch with key people through economical modern communications to nurture the new HC networks over time. Here is an open door like I have never seen. Only God could open a door such as this. Please ask God how you can join Him in what He is doing in Venezuela. Do not hesitate to forward this invitation. All seekers are welcome. Your brother, gail.

Gideon’s Army in Caracas 10-12-07

In answer to prayer God gave us the opportunity to speak to hundreds of evangelical Christians concerning little churches that multiply. Tony and Felicity Dale lead six hour training sessions in six different areas of Caracas for all who wanted to start house churches. Team members and Venezuelan leaders were incorporated into the training process. 300 were trained and commissioned into the harvest. There were reports of several churches being started since our brief visionary visit in June. In Porte Ayacucho on the edge of the rain forest of the Amazons 85 were trained and commissioned. Virtually all of them have family in the indigenous tribes of the Amazons. The meetings were so Spirit filled that it was said the mosquitoes were humming, ‘There is Power in the Blood.’ Please continue to pray as training opportunities continue to develop and we move toward the stadium crusade in Caracas January 24-27, 2008.

Prayer Alert 9-26-07

Co-laborers in Christ: Greetings in Jesus’ name. Please pray into the training of several hundred simple church advocates in Venezuela. Our Lord is calling out laborers for the harvest in Venezuela. Hundreds are availing themselves to training in simple church core values. The training dates are September 29, 2007 thru Tuesday October 9. We leave for Venezuela tomorrow. See the team members below. Our hope is that our Lord will begin a church multiplication movement that will reach the entire nation in Christ and beyond. Please join our Lord in what He is doing there in prayer.