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ACTS 13 - Breakthrough
What is it? It is a vision and breakthrough concept and strategy to help launch 200,000 new missionaries from the whole Body of Christ out into the mission fields that exist in every nation of the world.
In many ways, its nothing new as some churches have been doing it since the church in Antioch started things moving, as recorded in Acts13.
At present, across the globe, only a small percentage of churches are in to Acts 13 sending, and our goal is to see this change. The turnaround are Acts 13 senders. Our goal is to see tens of thousands of churches blessed by becoming senders. This will come only by faith, prayer and action. At the same time, we believe each church needs to have specific goals and aims in the area of sending. We are praying for over 100,000 church to be involved.
We have made a list of some of the sending nations and how many, churches need to be involved to make this happen globally. By dividing the task into small units, we can see that it is not as impossible as most of us have thought.
NUMBERS OF CHURCHES Needed to send 200,000 New Missionaries
(According to Country and Area, This represents less than 10% of the churches in
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| AUSTRALIA | 2,000 |
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| CANADA | 5,000 |
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| CARIBBEAN | 1,000 |
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| CENTRAL AMERICA & MEXICO | 5,000 |
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| EASTERN EUROPE | 5,000 |
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| EAST ASIA PACIFIC | 4,000 |
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| GREAT BRITAIN | 5,000 |
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| KOREA | 5,000 |
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| NEW ZEALAND | 1,000 |
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| REST OF AFRICA | 5,000 |
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| SCANDINAVIA & FINLAND | 1,200 |
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| SOUTH AFRICA | 5,000 |
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| SOUTH AMERICA | 10,000 |
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| SOUTH ASIA (includes India, Pakistan, Nepal & Sri Lanka) |
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| USA | 25,000 |
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| WESTERN EUROPE | 4,800 |
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| REST OF THE WORLD | 1,000 |
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| TOTAL | 100,000 |
After feedback from others and prayer, here is the revised suggested list of number of churches to send specific numbers of workers to reach our goal of 200,000 workers.
| Number of Churches | to send | Number of Workers |
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| 200 | 20 | 4,000 |
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| 800 | 10 | 8,000 |
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| 2,000 | 5 | 10,000 |
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| 17,000 | 4 | 68,000 |
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| 30,000 | 2 | 60,000 |
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| 50,000 | 1 | 50,000 |
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| 100,000 Total | 200,000 | |
How many should your church send? Here are some guidelines which must be linked with those already sent.
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| 10,000 | 20 | |
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| 5,000 | 10 | |
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| 2,000 | 5 | |
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| 1,000 | 4 | |
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| 500 | 2 | |
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| Under 500 | 1 | |
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Breakdown of numbers of churches from different areas.
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| Ireland | 100 | Guatemala | 1,000 | Poland | 500 |
| Belgium | 100 | Nicaragua | 350 | Czech Rep | 100 |
| France | 150 | Panama | 200 | Slovakia | 100 |
| Spain | 150 | Salvador | 400 | Hungary | 350 |
| Portugal | 100 | Costa Rica | 1,000 | Romania | 200 |
| Italy | 100 | Mexico | 2,000 | Bulgaria | 50 |
| Greece | 50 | Belize | 50 | Ukraine | 300 |
| Austria | 50 | Total | 5,000 | Albania | 100 |
| Switzerland | 1,000 | South America |
Latvia | 50 | |
| Germany | 2,000 | Argentina | 1,250 | Belarus | 30 |
| Netherlands | 1,000 | Bolivia | 500 | Estonia | 55 |
| Total | 4,800 | Chile | 1,000 | Lithuania | 50 |
| Scandinavia | Peru | 250 | Croatia | 30 | |
| Norway | 500 | Ecuador | 250 | Slovenia | 30 |
| Denmark | 100 | Paraguay | 250 | Serbia | 55 |
| Sweden | 300 | Columbia | 500 | Russia | 3,000 |
| Finland | 300 | Venezuela | 500 | Total | 5,000 |
| Total | 1,200 | Guyana | 100 | ||
| Suriname | 100 | ||||
| Fr. Guiana | 500 | ||||
| Brazil | 5,000 | ||||
| Total | 10,000 | ||||
These are only guidelines for prayer and planning. Obviously, some countries and churches may do more or less than what we have suggested.
In counsel with others, we are still adjusting these numbers. We realise that most long-term missionaries need several sending churches, but we are hoping they will have a home church that they consider their Antioch. There is maximum flexibility on how all this works out. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Harvest and we believe that this initiative comes from His heart and is being directed by the Holy Spirit.
Every biblical church in the world needs to send at least one worker longer-term into the harvest field, even if it starts with a one or two year field training program. Tens of thousands are in various colleges and training institutions who need to be affirmed, supported and then sent out, especially among the unreached people.
Acts 13 - Breakthrough 2000 is a vision and concept in which we all become more focused and specific about sending out workers.
We have overhead transparencies and tapes that presents how this can be done. We have as our goal the mobilization of 200,000 workers and we need about 100,000 churches around the globe to get involved in specific ways.
There are many model sending churches around the globe and we can learn so much from them. There are books about them and how it is done. Of course, God will lead different churches in different ways,and this is where I cry out that we would have a grace-awakened attitude towards each other.
As individual churches and whole denominations take ownership of this vision in reality and action, then the tens of thousands will get in to the training and be headed to the harvest fields. Many churches only need to send one or two to enable us to reach the goal.
Every church at their next business meeting should have an Acts 13 time of waiting upon God and then make the decision to take the first steps to actually send forth some workers. It is the sensible, biblical act of love and faith that any church can engage in.
If you are interested in more information, please request the cassettes, Acts 13 - Breakthrough 2000 and Why We Need 200,000 New Missionaries as well as the leaflet, Questions and Answers About Acts 13 - Breakthrough 2000.
George Verwer
If you have any questions, please write to:
Missions Mobilization Network
PO Box 660
Forest Hill, London
England, SE23 3ST
Fax: 44 (0)181 699 7160
E-mail: chacko@l.ict.om.org
George Verwer
PO Box 17
Bromley, Kent BR1 3JP
UK
E-Mail: george.verwer@verwer.ict.om.org
Fax: (44) 181.777.0788