This year has been a success and has been challenging in many ways.
Because of the significant overlap with our work with Evangelismcoach.org, we are branding everything we do as Evangelism Coach International.
This allows Brenda’s work in evangelism training through crafts and Sunday School training to fall under the same branding: from Alaska to Chile.
Together, we did a total of 27 conference events in 3 different countries.
I released my first book for purchase on how to welcome church visitors, (see http://www.welcomechurchvisitors.com) and launched the www.EvangelismBookstore.com.
I provided coaching for 3 individuals and two churches.
During the summer of 2007, our family was in the US for 6 weeks to raise funds, supporters, and attend the PRMI family camp.
Networking
Most of our time in Panama this year was focused on networking and giving conferences as they come. We encountered a huge setback last year when the ministry that invited us here closed down, leaving us to have to rebuild our own network. I’ve been seeking to connect with people who can open doors for us.
We have to adjust from our original plan and we’ve been discerning our next steps.
I continue to work on language acquisition.
Plans for 2009
Our target is to plan for 15 events in Panama, 12 events in the United States, and up to 3 events in other countries in Latin Americas. We did 30 events last year, but the majority was in the US.
We seek to grow more events here as our network grows. We realize this plan may be very aggressive, but it is our dream to minister in this part of the world.
I will continue to pursue language acquisition and certification.
We plan on releasing at least three more e-books, and developing a CD/DVD distribution strategy to repurpose a lot of my teaching to generate revenue from online sales.
It is also our goal develop our support base to a sustainable level that supplements our speaking fees and online sales in the US.
Pioneering for PRMI
Part of my plan is to network for PRMI into Latin America on the back of the networking that we are doing on our own. PRMI material is part of my ethos and I would like to have PRMI teams join me.
Right now it’s a season of networking and introducing the ministry of PRMI through the connections that I build through evangelism training.
Continue to pray for the growth and impact of our work. We are grateful to our supporters who pray for us and invest in our work.
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