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Participants in
Finish Line Summit
Summit Focuses on Unreached People Groups
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Church in Fiji, followed, say- op a strategy. David Sobrepena, of the church has not changed
Attended by 50 high-level global ing “our compassion must be pastor of the 35,000-member in its core and purpose . . .
church and missions leaders, deepened” for the 40 percent of Word of Hope Church in the changes in the environment may
the Finish Line Summit was a the world that have never heard Philippines, illustrated the growth result in a dramatic slowdown
time of renewal to the com- the name of Jesus. He said those of the Filipino church, stating, of one of the most exciting mis-
mitment of the Great Commis- on the “front row”—people “The single most effective way to sionary movements in the history
sion, especially relating to the who have heard of Jesus over disciple and evangelize a nation is of the church,” he said. Alex
need to reach the thousands and over—must think of those to plant churches.” Mitala, pastor in Uganda, added,
of unreached people groups on the “back row” who are still The second day of the sum- “It will take every believer in the
around the world. waiting to hear of Him. mit opened with Church of God local churches to finish the race.”
Sponsored jointly by James The conference used the Assistant General Overseer David Indian pastor Alex Abraham
O. Davis of the Second Billion technology of Skype to bring in Griffis, who spoke from Revela- finished the conference, saying
Initiative and Church of God speakers from around the world, tion 1:9, saying, “We are gaining four elements are needed for
World Missions (CGWM), the including Philip Jenkins, profes- something we lost—it is our completing the task of the Great
summit took place at Church sor at Penn State. He suggested unity. Remember that we are Commission. Using an Indian
of God Headquarters. Douglas we are now living in an era of brothers and companions; tribu- word, prem (meaning “love”) as
LeRoy, CGWM director, opened Christian history that is more lation is around us, but we are in an acronym, he listed the four
the conference, explaining the transformational than the Ref- the Kingdom.” elements as prayer, research,
vision of the Finish Line. He said, ormation itself. Another broad- Lazarus Yeghnazar, pastor equipping, and mobilizing.
“Our goal is to equip for the casted leader was J. Hudson in Iran, spoke through Skype, The conference concluded
mission everywhere around the Taylor IV in Taiwan, who stated “Jesus has broken into Iran in with a call to win souls to Christ.
world. The Great Commission that a shift has taken place, with the darkest part of our history.” The Second Billion strategy aims
is a command to obey; after all, many missionaries coming from He explained that over a million at establishing 5 million churches
there is no second chance to non-Western countries. Iranians have come to Christ and to win the next 1 billion souls
harvest a ripe crop.” He contin- Roland Vaughan of CGWM that miracles are occurring there. to Christ. Further conferences
ued, “The gospel is only good explained that in order to reach Gus Crocker, missionary from and summits will be taking place
news if it gets there in time.” into the darkness, one has to Guatemala, shared the need for throughout the U.S. and around
Suliasi Kurulo, pastor and identify the target, build a base, the church to adopt a new missi- the world. Learn more by visiting
founder of the World Harvest understand the target, and devel- ology. “Even though the mission www.billionsoul.org.
28 EVANGEL • FEB 2010
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