Coaching Clinic 301 and Church Planting School
Nov. 17-21, 2009
Orosi Valley, Cartago, Costa Rica
Eph.3:20 God sightings – "above and beyond you can ask or think"Sunday Nov. 22 5:00 a.m.
Thank you so much for your investment and prayers that are yielding wonderful fruit to God's glory. The training in Costa Rica Nov. 17-21 was used by the Lord in some ways beyond what we had expected. My heart was filled with gratitude as I wrote God-sightings at the river's edge at 5 a.m.
A beautiful place. I told José I thought the cabins were too crowded He said "You gringos need your space; we like it close. It's not a problem for us." He's right. Our goal was that it be simple, organic, and reproducible.
Praise God 32 of 34 came for at least part of the event. People from 10 countries: Mexico, Argentina, Honduras, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, USA, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nicaragua (Jim & Melanie Wilson).
When you look at the churches represented by the leaders present, there is the potential of impacting at least 250 churches through our coaches and planters.
20 Tico church planters and 10 Tico leaders (included in 32 coaches mentionned above).
Praise God for the evolution of the vision and work of training church planters, leaders and coaches. A desire was expressed to strengthen collaboration between leaders and national bodies and to grow the vision for Latin America.
Transition to a more mature partnership between RG and movements in Latin America. ReachGlobal did 90% of the work in Coaching Clinics 1 & 2. Four organizations pulled together to pull this off:
- GBIM (Grace Brethren) send the main speaker for the church planting school and Oscar Chavez is from the same background.
- COMIBAN (Premier Missionary-Sending body in Latin America) sent Omar Gava as a speaker and consultant for the Coaching Clinic.
- ReachGlobal did planning and several of us contributed to training.
- INCRESE (Costa Rica EFC Training) put on the Church Planting School, handled on the ground logistics and paid for ½ of Church Planting School.
High caliber of main speakers: Omar Gava, Craig Ott and Walter Testa. Each had a significant contribution to make.
Reproduction and Innovation– We know that Venezuela, Brazil and Costa Rica have already used the basic Coaching Clinic. It was encouraging for me to hear some creative ideas like a plan for the mobilization of youth for church planting and missions in Brazil.
These people have the opportunity to take the vision, concepts and training (reproducible) to 250 churches with a possible impact on 500 churches.
All praise and glory be to the Lord!
