"This is for those who wish to reach their full potential as a Jesus follower!"
Thank you for your prayers! What a rigorous and rewarding month we had! We hosted 24 Ethiopian Church Pastors and Planters from March 4-5, and over 100 at Exponential at various Sent 6:7 events (our disciple-making process for church multiplication) from March 7-10. Both of these trainings were in Orlando. On March 18 & 19 we were with Christian Life Center (CLC) in Fort Lauderdale to train 200 in 'Becoming a CoJourner' (a framework for conversational evangelism).
During the “Becoming a CoJourner” seminar there is a great emphasis on practical, tangible application and gentle accountability with regular follow-up. That's why we spend a big part of the training practicing the conversational/evangelism tools in small groups around tables.
Highlights from those we've trained:
“Becoming a CoJourner is not one more seminar in evangelism. It is an environment where there is brilliant exposition, deep encouragement, practice and radical questioning based on Jesus' mission and vision for the "today" church.This is for those who wish to reach their full potential as a Jesus follower,who has the courage to change their life, who looks to build a healthy and trustworthy process for making disciples in a contemporary society. Becoming a CoJourner is for you because it challenges our status quo.”
Roberto Vidal, Lay Minister at CLC.
"CLC is in a season of mobilization of the saints... God is leading us into a more organic expression of discipleship. One of our strategies for equipping our body was to have Dave Robinson and Gabor Gresz from churchmovements.com to train 200 of our leaders with evangelism tools from Becoming a CoJourner, specifically the Life in the City, Solarium and CoJourners. These tools have the capacity to facilitate gospel conversations within our oikos ("oikos" refers to those we do life with – where we live, work, learn and play – neighbors). Our team is hungry for what God has for them, but more importantly our community. I witnessed a fresh fire poured out over this 2-day conference. God has unified our team through this training. The Holy Spirit is leading us into a missional lifestyle of discipleship and He is using these 200 to set the others in CLC on fire.”
Shawn O’Neill, Pastor of Outreach and Evangelism at Christian Life Center (CLC) in Ft. Lauderdale.
Terefe Anshebo (seated on front row far right) is the General Secretary of the Kale Heywet Ethiopian Church of N. America. He recently wrote saying, “Thank you, Dave, and all the Cru leadership team, for investing resources to train pastors and church planters for the advancement of the Kingdom of God!” (24 leaders from 10 cities came to this training.)
“God orchestrated and allowed this training to be introduced to us, so we can be more effective in presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a variety of ways. Very enlightening! This was a Divine Appointment from the Lord. I felt people were anxiously wanting this for quite some time. I believe this was the missing link in evangelism.” ~ CLC Board Member
“God was very strategic and deliberate to have Cru partner with CLC to equip the church to share their faith.” ~ CLC Outreach Director, Coral Springs church
"I like that God is igniting a fire and hunger for souls. I also felt a unity and love for one another on a new level that I have never seen before...with staff and volunteers during the CRU training and in preparation." ~ CLC Staff Member