{"id":812,"date":"2014-06-10T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T21:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=812"},"modified":"2017-07-18T07:17:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:17:51","slug":"full-circle-chaplains-starting-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Full Circle: Chaplains Starting Churches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/chaplain.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-837\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-837\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/chaplain-300x253.png\" alt=\"chaplain\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/chaplain-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/chaplain-768x647.png 768w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/chaplain.png 912w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 1995 to 2009, our Bible school network planted several churches in different countries.\u00a0 During that time we also started River of Life Church where we pastored for many years. We decided to end our involvement with the church so that we could focus on evangelism and discipleship<\/p>\n<p>in and through the school systems.\u00a0 Now, in 2014, we are closing the circle by returning to church planting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Using the schools in our program as a base, we will start with 35 chaplains with plans to train an additional 115!\u00a0 In essence, these school chaplains will become school counselors and pastors.\u00a0 In most cases this will create an instant congregation of at least 200 people. Once a chaplain gets established, he will begin outreaches to the surrounding community using the school building as a place to hold weekend worship services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After three years of looking for someone or some group to lead this initiative, the Lord has brought forth a faithful servant in Bolivia &#8212; Carlos Sanchez.\u00a0 Carlos has been very successful in leading our short-term mission teams and has worked alongside me in many trusted positions for over 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>This letter is a petition for prayer.<\/b>\u00a0 We need the wisdom promised by the Lord and we need His mindset in this endeavor. And we need partners like you to financially support Carlos and his family as they launch this new church-planting mission. Lastly, we need prayer as we create the training material and begin to equip these chaplains to reach their communities with the Gospel of Jesus.\u00a0 Thank you for your prayers!\u00a0 What an exciting time we get to live in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1995 to 2009, our Bible school network planted several churches in different countries.\u00a0 During that time we also started River of Life Church where we pastored for many years. We decided to end our involvement with the church so that we could focus on evangelism and discipleship in and through the school systems.\u00a0 Now,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,96,112,94,79,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-countries","category-lifestyle","category-school-program","category-testimonies","category-todays-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}