By Fall 2023, 17 teams had been sent out to explore 11 different potential new mission fields since EFM’s Five-Year Goal launched in 2021. In November 2023, EFM made a commitment to launch 6 of the 9 fields that were still under exploration. Those six fields are now moving on to the pre-launch planning phases. See more information here.
This next Luke 10 trip is a Pre-Launch planning trip to South Sudan with a visit to “missionary training boot camp” in Dar es Salaam (East Africa School of Missions) in Tanzania. The team will be in Tanzania from June 23-29 and in South Sudan from June 29-July 8.
We have eight total on this team: six future missionaries and two mission-sending leaders. Three from Rwanda, one from Mexico, and four from the U.S. The team members are: Pastor Jean Paul Nsekanabo (EFC-Rwanda Missions Board Chair), Nicodeme and Anoinciata Basebya (EFC-Rwanda-selected future missionaries to South Sudan), Ximena Maldonado (future missionary from Mexico Yearly Meeting North), Ellie Ware (future missionary from EFC-ER ), Luke Macy and Nathan Macy (future missionaries from EFC- MAYM), and Matt Macy (EFM Director of Mobilization).
A Luke 10 Pre-Launch Planning Trip occurs after EFM has made a decision of commitment to launching the mission field. EFM commissions Field Study Groups to complete a Pre-Launch Planning Report, which often requires further trips to obtain the details necessary for EFM to be able to deploy missionaries to a location to launch a new field.
EFM is working with EFC-Rwanda in plans for launching a new mission field in South Sudan together. This includes continuing logistical details in South Sudan for deploying missionaries from Rwanda and the U.S. as early as 2025. The main focus for at least the first two years in South Sudan will be language learning immersion and culture bonding. EFC-Rwanda has selected missionaries to go, and EFM is seeing that Nicodeme and Anoinciata will be key missionary team leaders in South Sudan.
We are also considering best practices in special training for pioneering new fields among unreached people in Africa, and EFM, alongside leaders from EFC-Rwanda and EFC-Burundi, over the past two years have selected the boot camp in Tanzania for a key part of this training. This year’s trip is to expose future missionaries to the school as we all consider what the timing should be for enrollment.
Lastly, EFM is in conversation with EFC-Rwanda about partnership in missions-sending for launching in South Sudan, which includes a multi-national missionary team with team members from both Rwanda and the U.S. We wish to consider options for how the team might develop both on the field and off the field, including potentially at boot camp together.
The following are ways that you can pray for this team while they are in Tanzania and South Sudan. Please pray…
- For a “peace of mind” (2 Cor 2:13).
- That we hear and discern God’s direction for the next steps moving forward.
- For unity between EFC-Rwanda and EFM.
- For the “casting out” of workers to the unreached of South Sudan (Luke 10:2).
The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to cast out more workers into his fields.
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