EFM is excited to announce our new prayer initiative called “7 Fields, 7 Calls to Prayer.” This seven-month journey will highlight fields where God is calling us to send new workers, and we need your prayers to help prepare the way.

If you sign up to join us, you’ll receive a monthly resource that includes prayer points, stories from the field, and ways to stay involved. We hope you’ll use them:

• In your home with your family
• With a small group or Bible study
• With an existing prayer group
• And by encouraging your church leaders to share them more widely

This journey works in tandem with the Luke 10:2 Prayer Gathering—held on the second Thursday of each month at 10am Pacific. We’ll introduce the approved field (from our Five-Year Goal) we’re focusing on that month and hear directly from those preparing to serve there as well as those that are preparing the way. Our next gathering is Thursday, May 8—we’d love for you to join us!

Click here to sign up and be part of the Prayer Initiative. We can’t wait to see how God moves through this united prayer effort!

Is it possible that God has an adventure for you in another country?

Imagine living your whole life never hearing that Jesus loves you. EFM is going to places where that is a reality. Often, these corners of the world are wracked with poverty, broken relationships, lack of education, social concerns, and spiritual darkness. Along with career missionaries, EFM is looking for people who can respond to these needs, even on a 1-2 year basis.

In fact, EFM invites you to redefine your understanding of what it means to be a “missionary.” Simply said, a missionary is a person willing to engage in cross-cultural ministry, using their unique life and vocational experiences, skills, and interests to live out and usher in the Kingdom of God. In today’s complex world, ministry requires people with diverse abilities – education, business, agriculture, hospitality, social work, medicine, IT and more. The key is a willingness to build genuine relationships. These connections – whether families, men, women, children, or youth – create fertile ground where disciple-making flourishes.

Begin the conversation today to discover how your unique life experiences and vocational skills can meet these important needs. EFM will equip you for cross-cultural service, training you in the latest methods for immersing yourself in a new culture, learning a language and developing the depth of friendships that flow into disciple-making relationships. Once trained, EFM also provides the infrastructure to support you, including prayer networks, training in fundraising, a ministry coach, and a personal care team.

Click here to begin the conversation today and discover how your unique life experiences and vocational skills can meet these important needs.

Read this month’s prayer letter here…

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These activities lean into the second part of EFM’s Five-Year goal, which inspires multiplication movements:

To send 10 new missionary households from North America to launch 5 new fields by 2025. In launching these new fields we will pursue partnerships with Evangelical Friends groups on other continents who share our vision and wish to work with us.

This conference, hosted at Kibimba in Burundi, involves 52 delegates from 12 countries. In addition to eight delegates from EFC-Rwanda and eight delegates from each of the Kwibuka and Kibimba Yearly meetings in EFC-Burundi, we also have guests from other EFC-Africa yearly meetings including four from Congo, two from Uganda, and two from Tanzania.

Other guests and presenters at the conference include:

• Two from the missions board of EFC-Central America (from Guatemala and El Salvador) to tell their story of sending missionaries to Cambodia
• Three from FUM (from Kenya and Tanzania) to tell their story of missions sending, including sending to Tanzania and South Sudan
• Four from Global Disciples to introduce their Small Business Development training in business as mission strategy to the unreached (trainers from Nigeria, Kenya, Bangladesh, and from the US, Eric Fleck, Wabash Friends Church, IYM)
• One pastor from EFC-Coahuila, Mexico
• Nine from the US, including Dan Cammack (EFM Field Director), Matt Macy (EFM Director of Mobilization), Thayne Thompson (EFC-MAYM Superintendent), Jim LeShana (NWYM Superintendent), Chris Stanfield (Pastor at Paonia Friends Church, RMYM), David Thomas (EFM Missionary), Brad Carpenter (EFM Missionary), Thomas Moore (Short-Term Missionary in Rwanda), and Luke Macy (EFC-MAYM and photographer). These guests go to tell the story of EFM’s missions sending, plus to witness, listen, and learn.

Thank you for praying for this special gathering, that the Lord of the Harvest would guide us and inspire action and obedience in us, as we discover further how to be faithful in the sending out of workers into his fields.

Sincerely,
The Conference Planning Team
Aaron Mupenda (EFC-Africa Director and EFC-Rwanda Legal Representative), Louis Pasteur Nizigiyimana (EFC-Burundi Legal Representative), Domitien Sabongerwa (EFC-Burundi Missions Liaison), Brad Carpenter (EFM Missionary to Central Africa), and Matt Macy (EFM Director of Mobilization)

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At EFM, we are learning of a growing number of people interested in missions service (or interested in exploring the idea of missions service) on a long-term basis (4 years to life) or a short-term basis (one to four years). We call people like this, in short: “future missionaries.” To be considered a future missionary in EFM’s context, means you are sincere and committed about following Jesus wherever he would have you go to serve in obeying his commandments, and you are open to exploring the idea of being a missionary to another country and people group.

If you are a future missionary who might be interested in any of these opportunities, please let us know by completing this quick 2021 Future Missionary RSVP and Survey Form so that we can provide you with more information as it becomes available in coming days/weeks and so that we know more about your availability and interest as we plan these and other opportunities.

These four opportunities are designed for anyone of any age and life-stage 16 years and up who are able and willing to explore future missions service.

• Gather with other future missionaries.
• Individual and group conversations with experienced coach-mentor missionary’s.
• Teaching’s on missionary and cross-cultural service that fit whatever level of experience you have.
• Connect with opportunities for future missions service and those who help send missionaries in the Friends Church family.
• Retreat led by Brad and Chelsea Carpenter, missionaries to Rwanda and Central Africa, with EFM Directors Dan Cammack and Matt Macy and several experienced missionaries ready to come alongside and mentor-coach future missionaries for the long-haul in discernment and service.
• Looking at two different date options for end of May or first of June in Colorado. Please provide feedback on the 2021 Future Missionary RSVP and Survey Form.
• Future missionary participants will be asked to cover half of their travel costs. Lodging, meals, and retreat provided by EFM.

• Future missionaries going with present and former Friends missionaries to an EFM mission field for a mission trip.
• Matt Macy, along with Edwin and Maria Giron and Brad and Chelsea Carpenter, will be giving leadership to this trip, and other missionaries will be added as needed to have a strong ratio of mentors.
• Serve the churches and groups that are established and join them in ministry experiences.
• Observe ministry work and learn discipling and multiplication methods.
• Receive an introduction to language learning methods, practicing with a personal on-site language helper.
• Experience cultural immersion for part of the trip and enjoy debriefing and learning with both nationals and missionaries.
• June 30 arrive to U.S. city for orientation, July 2 depart for mission field, July 12 return home. Virtual orientation gatherings will be scheduled by video conference call.
• Orientation and field destinations are established, and these details along with costs are “to be announced.”
• Participants will be asked to cover all of their costs, and EFM will provide assistance with a fundraising plan as needed.

How do Evangelical Friends discern where to launch new mission fields? We do this through EFM’s Luke 10 Initiative. Future missionaries are invited to every Luke 10 Think Tank that meets.

• EFM’s National Luke 10 Think Tank is May 26 at Quaker Ridge in Woodland Park.
• Northwest Yearly Meeting Luke 10 Think Tank is scheduled for March 27 via video conference call.
• EFC Mid America Luke 10 Think Tank is scheduled for April 10 in Wichita, Kansas
• EFC Eastern Region Luke 10 Think Tank is scheduled for April 27 in Canton, Ohio.
• Other Think Tank’s and Luke 10 Trips to be announced.

• Stay connected with other future missionaries and experienced mentor-coaches.
• Connect regularly through virtual video meetings.
• Gain access to online conversation group.

If you are a future missionary who might be interested in any of these opportunities, please let us know by completing this quick 2021 Future Missionary RSVP and Survey Form.​ Also, we invite any future missionaries to tell us more about your interest in missions on EFM’s Missions Interest Form. Find a basic overview of EFM’s Pathway to Becoming a Missionary at friendsmission.com/go. If you have any questions, please feel free to reply to this email, or contact matt@friendsmission.com or 316-706-5789, but we will definitely provide more details and registration information for these opportunities to those who complete the 2021 Future Missionary RSVP and Survey Form!

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In Matthew 9:37-38, Jesus said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

When Jesus said, “the harvest is plentiful,” he wasn’t kidding! David Thomas found the infographic below that gives us one way of seeing how huge the harvest is today. It also shows us where most of the people groups who have not heard the Gospel are located. Please take a moment to ponder what this infographic tells you.

Frontier People Groups (FPGs) are Unreached People Groups with 0.1% or fewer Christians of any kind, and no evidence of a self-sustaining gospel movement. According to the Joshua Project there are currently about 5,047 Frontier People Groups with a total population of 1,941,674,000. One fourth of the world lives in FPGs and these people have almost no chance of hearing about Jesus unless workers come from the outside to share the Gospel with them.

Jesus continues to say, “Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.” EFM believes that he wants Evangelical Friends of North America to send out at least ten new missionary households to launch at least five new fields over the next five years.  Will you pray with us that that will come to pass? If so, please send us a message at this link to let us know you are praying about this specific need.  And be on the lookout for updates in this monthly prayer letter about the progress being made on this five-year goal.

Thank you for praying!

Dan Cammack

Executive Director of EFM

Click Here to Download Full Prayer Letter…

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