Mission UpReach Newsletter - June 2016

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Planting churches through CREO program
CREO is our church leadership and spiritual training
program that is taught in a series of intensive, weeklong
“bootcamps”. CREO is one of our core ministries
because of its work to fulfill our key performance
indicator and assist us in training local leaders who
will be directly involved as we work to launch 1010
churches in Western Honduras. We have already
completed four of our planned seven boot camps for the
year. In the most recent boot camp, Steve Cloer from
the Southside Church of Christ in Ft. Worth, Texas,
and Don McLaughlin from the North Atlanta Church
of Christ provided some advanced class materials for
one of our boot camps. These visiting teachers are so
helpful to improving the quality of the instruction as
well has adding a sense of pride to the attendees that
they have received lessons from such able instructors.
Thank you to Steve, Don, and the many others who have
collaborated with MUR in this way.
MUR also led an evangelistic campaign at the town
of Las Flores this month. Las Flores is a target area for
a future church plant. The campaign included worship
services every evening during the week. On Tuesday
evening, the congregation from Belen as well as
Contamal traveled together to worship with the people
of Las Flores, adding to the impact of the campaign.
MUR church planters as well as one of our first CREO
graduates presented lessons during the week. Join us
as we pray that Las Flores can be added to our John 1010
Generation goal of having 1010 congregations in this
region.
AIM targets great workers for Mission UpReach
Adventures in Missions (AIM) is a part of the Sunset
International Bible Institute in Lubbock, Texas. AIM is
an apprentice missions program for college-age young
people. MUR has enjoyed a collaborative relationship
with AIM for several years. In total, 17 AIMers have
served with us in Honduras, representing three AIM
class groups.
In March we said “adios” to five AIMers from
the first class, including: Adam Lord (from Liberty,
Missouri), Rex Wilson (from Lubbock, Texas),
Kristin Adams (from Arlington, Washington),
Jami-Leigh Fanning (from Lynchburg,
Tennessee) and Marianne Moses (Marble Falls,
Texas). The work in Western Honduras has
been blessed by the diligent efforts of these
young adults.
Two members of that first AIM class have
recently joined the staff of MUR in permanent
positions. Caleb Gossett accepted the position
of Assistant Group Coordinator. Caleb will focus
on organizing the more than a dozen brigades
that serve here each year to assure that
everything operates smoothly and efficiently.
Matthew Bridges accepted the position of
Accounting Technician, working with Cheryl
van den Meiracker, our senior accountant. Matt
is also leading the new deaf ministry within the
local community. We welcome Caleb and Matt
as permanent members of our team.
We offer a hearty “bienvenidos” to the three
members of the latest class of AIMers to join our ranks
in May. We are happy to have Landon Anderson (from
Missouri), Heidi Swenson (from Nebraska), and Jarley
Quintero (from Florida) joining us. and helping in our
various projects. Landon will be working with The
Moses Project, Heidi with DESEO, and Jarley with the
church planters. They will serve for 22 months.