April 2025

This past month Joseph took part of the Exponential Global Conference to join together with thousands of church planters and denominations. The vision is to see an expanding number of movements of healthy reproducing churches around the United States and the world!  Joseph was part of a panel during a networking/recruiting lunch for Cru Fellowship for Church Multiplication    https://www.churchmovements.com/fellowship This lunch was to recruit new church planters into our national church planting residency/internship.  This residency prepares church planters to start churches across the US.  We had 42 participants this year and hope to see more take part in the church planting training next year.

Cru Church Movements table and information at Exponential
 
Cru Fellowship Church Movements (CFCM) time together…
 
Joseph sharing on a panel at the Networking/Recruiting Luncheon
 

African Church Planting

Globally, 281 million people live in a country other than their country of origin. In the US that amounts to 60M people – 18% of the population.

During the Exponential conference we were able to a workshop on reaching out to these people groups here in the Unted States by:

… consider ways to awaken the church to the mission field

… connect with church planting networks that focus on reaching different people groups

… explore partnerships to reach more people groups in the US

Joseph and Pastor Terefe Anshebo. Pastor Terefe is an Ethiopian church planter reaching the Ethiopian people here in the US. He has planted 7 different churches throughout the United States.
 

 
Joseph and church planter, Shawn. Shawn is a church planter from Ft. Lauderdale who launched his church in June 2024 with 104 people.  He is currently in our Cru Fellowship for Church Multiplication residency/internship.
 
Joseph and Pastor Samuel from African Church Planting of the ECWA. Samuel is a Nigerian church planter.
 

 

Thank you for your continual encouragement, prayers and support to us and the ministry here in Los Angeles and around the nation. We know all the blessings we see are because of the prayers of so many. Thank you!

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