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Pray for the Luke 10 Pre-Launch Planning Trip to South Sudan!

Kimberly Mer — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:31:13 +0000

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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Pray for the Luke 10 Pre-Launch Planning Trip to Mexico!

Kimberly Mer — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:23:10 +0000

This pre-launch planning trip to Mexico is leaving today and taking place between June 10-14! The team of 13 people will include Ernesto Ramirez (Superintendent Mexico YM Central), Elizabeth Gomez (Director of ITA -Friends Theology Institute), Samuel and Cristina Vasquez (Superintendent of Mexico YM North), Luisa Ayala (Pastor in Mexico YM North), Sergio and Nancy Cardona (Pastors Friends Ciudad Juarez), two Future Missionaries from Mexico YM North, one Future Missionary from Mexico YM Central, Matt Macy (EFM Director of Mobilization), and Edwin and Maria Giron (EFM missionaries). The exploration during this trip is planned to take place at some main cities in the two states of Durango and San Luis Potosi.

Trip leader Maria Giron shared these insights into this upcoming trip. The purpose of this trip is to explore and learn the needs of these states in Mexico where there is still no presence of Friends contributing to the expansion of the kingdom of God. We will be gathering info to complete EFM’s Pre-Launch Planning Report. We will ask for guidance from God to know which cities in these states have the potential for us to send missionaries and church planters to start new ministries. Additionally, there are intentions to have conversations between EFM and Friends Leaders of Mexico and pray for the future and process of creating partnership and forming multinational teams.

The following are ways that you can pray for this team while they are in Mexico.

Pray for the conversations between EFM and the leaders of Mexico. May God guide us by giving us wisdom and may there be a feeling of unity with the purpose of serving and being obedient together.
Pray that we have intentional meetings with key people that God has prepared for us to meet during this trip. And may always we be examples of God’s love and grace to all the people with whom we have an encounter.
Pray that all of us who are going to be part of the journey be sensitive to listening and seeing what the Holy Spirit wants to show us.
For safety and protection from danger on roads and in towns. For health throughout the trip to all of us who are traveling.

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.

To learn more about how you can join these trips or if you are interested in exploring missionary service, visit here.

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