7. Blue print for a typical day…
Team leader meeting at 7am
Everyone breakfast at 7:30
Worship at 8:00 am
Out the door at 8:30 am
Ministry until 8 PM
Guide Book page 16
9. Church planting team…
•Picked up by pastor/leader
•Meet your nationals
•Evangelism and Discipleship
•Lunch with nationals – soccer
•Evangelism and Discipleship
•Dinner with nationals
•After dinner – cell group
11. “Count it all joy when you fall
into various trials, knowing that
the testing of your faith
produces patience. But let
patience have it’s perfect work,
that you may be perfect and
complete, lacking in nothing.”
James 1:2-4
14. Food Concerns…
•All food at our hotel is OK
•Drink plenty of BOTTLED water
•Only eat cooked foods
•Fruit that YOU peel is OK
•Don’t eat food from a street vendor
•Your translator will finish your food
•Missionary prayer
15. Foster a Spirit of Unity…
•Be on your guard against the enemy
•Be a team player
•Look for ways to help others
•Avoid criticism
•Submit to E3 and team leaders
•Respect authority
•Don’t whine – I might give you some cheese.
16. Don’t …
•Don’t make promises…
•Don’t give money…
•Don’t wear flashy jewelry or
expensive clothes…
•Don’t show pictures of your big house
and $40,000 car…
•Don’t pull money out of your wallet in
public…
17. Communication Concerns…
•Your translator will become a friend
•Talk with your translator a lot before
going out to witness
•Look at the person you are sharing
with, not the translator
•Speak in complete phrases
•Avoid jokes, slang or clichés
Guide Book page 26
18. Communication Concerns cont.
•Avoid contractions
•Avoid references to American culture
•If translator doesn’t understand,
DON’T GET LOUDER
•Thank and encourage your translator
•Try to learn a few words of Spanish
19.
20. Preparing to go
You need…
1.Your passport (copies)
2.Immunizations
3.Cool clothes
4.Gifts
5.Some money (souvenirs)
Guide Book page 28-29
21. Packing to go
• Two suitcases (50 lb limit)
• Cubes, tracts, kids ministry,
team meds, notebook
• Backpack
• Airport TSA regulations
• Some money
Guide Book page 29-30
23. • Money – Ecuador uses US $
• $ Enough for meals on travel
days and shopping
• Consider a money belt
• ET phone home
• Stay healthy – drink bottled
water, watch your foods,
rest, use sanitizer, take deet..
Guide Book page 31
24. …..Continued….
• Keep feet clean and dry
• Wear closed toed shoes
• NEVER pet animals
• Stay with the team at all times
• Be cautious
• Take a business card from
hotel
Guide Book page 31
33. Pray for yourself…
Jeremiah 33:3 “Call to me
and I will answer you and tell
you great and unsearchable
things you do not know.”
Guide Book page 8
34. Ask others to pray for you…
Include your family, your
Church, your small group.
Have them email me and
they will be added to a
prayer warrior list. Give
them our blog address.
www.brothersam.net
36. Spend time daily in the
Bible…
This is the way God speaks
to us. Use the prayer journal
in your starter kit. We have
already started!!
37. Recognize, YOU are in a
spiritual battle…
1 Peter 5:8 “Your enemy the
devil prowls around like a
roaring lion looking for
someone to devour”.
Guide Book page 10
38. What will we do when we get there?
Guide Book page 16
47. •Jesus commands us to make
disciples
•Jesus and Paul made
disciples through relationships
•Disciples make disciples
MAKE DISCIPLES
48. VERSUSVERSUS
• continuously fertile
• only one baby per pregnancy • avg. 7 babies per pregnancy
• 22-month gestation period • 1-month gestation period
• sexual maturity at 18 yrs old • sexual maturity at 4 months
• Mathematically speaking, in a
3-year period elephants have
a maximum growth potential of
1 elephant.
• In the same 3-year period
where elephants only produced
1 offspring, 476 million rabbits
could potentially be born!
• fertile four times a year
52. Matthew 20:25-28
Jesus called them together and said,
“You know that the rulers of the
Gentiles lord it over them, and their
high officials exercise authority over
them. Not so with you. Instead,
whoever wants to become great
among you must be your servant,
and whoever wants to be first must
be your slave just as the Son of Man
did not come to be served, but to
serve, and to give his life as a
ransom for many.”
DEVELOP LEADERS
54. Everything in the
world was created to
multiply – Adam and
Eve, the beasts of the
field, the birds in the
air, the fish of the sea
and every seed
bearing plant.
MULTIPLY CHURCHES
