Author: bbyrd

For Team Expansion, the month of March highlights 8 years being located on the campus of Emerald Hills, a paradise of green. Praise God for those who have been trained and sent out into the nations to model disciple making and church planting. Pray that God would start 24 disciples making movements among unreached peoples by 2024 so that more peoples will have the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God (Rev 2:7b).

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” (John 3:16-17) Praise God for His love and compassion for people He created and for sending His Savior Son into the world. Pray His Spirit would start 24 disciple making movements by 2024 among people groups that don’t yet know of His saving love.

“And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord; and to worship him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant – these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer.” (Isaiah 56:6-7) Give thanks to the Lord for His love of 6,900 unreached people groups in the world that He has planted in our hearts. Pray that the efforts of Team Expansion and her partners will cause foreigners to fix their eyes on Jesus, love and obey and be disciple makers. Pray for 24 disciple making movements among unreached people groups by 2024.

“A new command I give: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34-35)

A part of showing love to one another is communicating with one another. Pray for more presence on social media, more giving avenues, new team members so that men know that Jesus is our leader and that all men may know who He is.

“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” (1 John 3:1) Pray for open doors as Team Expansion seeks to share the Gospel message and launch movements to Christ in places that have not heard it yet. Pray that those who appear to be enemies of Christianity would come to know the true Savior of the World.

“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” (Titus 3:4-5) Praise God for the amazing impact that Team Expansion and her partners have had in 2016! Ask God to direct as we seek to further His Kingdom in 2017. Join us in praying for 300+ new churches, 1700+ new baptisms, and increasingly total church attendance.

“Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” (John 14:23) Celebrate the hard work of the PACE Project Specialist to get plugged into PACE coordinators and building relationship between them and Team Expansion. Pray that, with God’s Spirit, PACE is equipping for more fruit, creating a seed bed of harvest workers, and identifying common characteristics that are working well. Pray by God’s Spirit, more unreached are reached with the Gospel and will have a home in Christ..

“Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” (John 14:23) Celebrate the hard work of the PACE Project Specialist to get plugged into PACE coordinators and building relationship between them and Team Expansion. Pray that, with God’s Spirit, PACE is equipping for more fruit, creating a seed bed of harvest workers, and identifying common characteristics that are working well. Pray by God’s Spirit, more unreached are reached with the Gospel and will have a home in Christ.

“Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” (John 14:21) A component of Team Expansion’s training is through the Discipleship School of the Outdoors (DSOTO). There are rules and regulations that must be complied to in order to enjoy the high ropes course and other DSOTO elements safely and securely. We praise God that 2016 was a big year for DSOTO in numbers of people and teams participating. Give thanks for a new Gator and completion of the building of the full high ropes course. DSOTO builds cohesiveness among teams and helps to highlight skill sets. Pray that teams preparing for field and already on field will develop an attitude of love and appreciation for one another so that the Father’s love is made known among the nations.

Praise God for drawing people of Muslim background to love and obey Jesus…so that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith. Pray that these new believers are rooted and established in love, that they may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – and be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God (Eph 3:17-19).