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Summer 2024 Update |How can you be involved in what God is doing through EFM?

 Exciting progress has been made on our Five-Year Goal to send 10 new missionary households from North America to launch 5 new fields by 2025! Last November, the Luke 10 National Think Tank approved six new fields. They are:

Mexico | Ecuador | NE Brazil | Greece | South Sudan | Gulf States

Click the link here to watch our Summer 2024 Five-Year Goal Update video and discover how you can get involved. Share it during a Sunday service or with anyone considering missionary service.

During the next two years we expect to launch at least 6 new fields. To accomplish this, we will focus on three goals:

1. Lay a strong foundation of prayer – locally, regionally and
2. Send missionaries to launch each new
3. Establish a disciple-making ministry presence in each

In 2024, our benchmarks include:

• Regions establish Field Prayer Team/s who meet regularly in the S. to pray for each field. (March)

“Lord Jesus, please raise up prayer teams from around the world who would faithfully pray for these new fields.”

• EFM post Help Wanted Signs for short- and long-term missionary households for each (May)

“…the workers are few, so Lord Jesus, please cast our more workers into your fields.”

• Regions send 10:2 Prayer Trip/s to each field to pray for the soil and for (Nov)
• Regions commission Field Study Group to complete Pre-Launch Planning Reports for each (Nov)
• Field Study Groups initiate conversations about missions-sending plans with any potential (Nov)
  • Multinational partnerships with international sending yearly
  • Formal or informal partnerships with organizations with whom we may collaborate within the launching
  • Inter-regional/yearly meeting collaboration within EFC-NA is encouraged to build capacity in the EFM family of churches.

Regional Strategic Considerations:

• Missions ambassadors communicate a call for prayer teams and workers with every local
• At least 3-4 potential missionary households have visited each (1-2 weeks or 2-12 months)
• At least double the number of people directly engaged with pre-field development (praying, planning, giving, visiting) this year.

We are actively seeking families and individuals who feel called to serve overseas. If you or someone you know is interested in exploring missionary work with EFM, click the link here to discover opportunities and start your journey.

Download this month’s full prayer letter here…

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Each year we prepare an annual report for the representatives of yearly meetings/regions that meet during the summer. We call it the “Summer Update” and you can click here to read and download this year’s.

We are sharing this report with you because of your interest in and support for the missionaries and ministries of EFM. We pray that it will not only help to keep you informed but that it will also be helpful to you in praying and giving.

As we celebrate our 60th anniversary, we are setting a goal to raise $150,000 to provide pre-field training for the 10 households we plan to launch by the end of 2025. You can click the button below to start preparing the way for these missionaries! In the last six months of 2023 we will be ramping to celebrate what God has done these past 60 years and anticipate what he will do. Look out for more information coming soon to get involved.

Because of Christ,

Stan Leach
Executive Director

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We are sharing this report with you because of your interest in and support for the missionaries and ministries of EFM. We pray that it will not only help to keep you informed but that it will also be helpful to you in praying and giving.

We are also excited to share with you a video that just released! Check out it out to learn some of the activities EFM is doing to develop potential and future missionaries!

With our Five-Year Goal in mind, we hope you are encouraged and remember that missions is not just about praying and giving. It’s also about going! May you be open to the ways in which the Lord is leading you to be part of the answer to the prayer for more workers in his harvest fields.

Because of Christ,

Stan Leach
Executive Director

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Each year we prepare an annual report for the representatives of those yearly meetings/regions that meet during the summer. We call it the “Summer Update.” Through this post we are sharing the EFM Summer 2021 Update.

We are sharing this report with you because of your interest in and support for the ministries of EFM. We pray that the report will not only help to keep you informed but that it will also be helpful to you in praying and giving. There is an important announcement on the first page of this report that reminds us that missions is not just about praying and giving, however. It’s also about going! May you be open to the ways in which the Lord is leading you to be part of the answer to the prayer for more workers in his harvest fields.

Click here to read.

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We are sharing this report with you because of your interest in and support for the ministries of EFM. We pray that the report will not only help to keep you informed but that it will also be helpful to you in praying and giving. There is an important announcement on the first page of this report that reminds us that missions is not just about praying and giving, however. It’s also about going! May you be open to the ways in which the Lord is leading you to be part of the answer to the prayer for more workers in his harvest fields.

Click here to read.

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