Mission Point Ministry
The heart and soul of each EPPIC Journey (EJ) is the Mission Point Ministry. Each mission point represents a new church that is being planted or a fledgling church that is being strengthened. The pastors of these new churches are referred to as mission point pastors. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, each mission point pastor is being sent out by his mother church pastor (i.e., the pastor of one of the locally established churches) to plant this new church. After the mission point pastors have been properly equipped through the TCCP and the Bible Seminar, the Mission Point Ministry helps them jump start their new or fledgling churches. This is accomplished by each EJ team member usually spending six days providing missionary (i.e., evangelism) leadership/support to at least two mission points during each EJ. These six days are truly a life-changing experience that the EJ team members cherish for the rest of their lives. The details of how this ministry is conducted are provided below.
Prior to departing the U.S., the EJ team members are trained in presenting the gospel using the EvangeCube and organized into two-person missionary teams. During the EJ’s opening ceremony, each missionary team is linked up with their interpreters (one for each U.S. missionary), assigned their two mission points, and introduced to their two mission point pastors and those pastors' two supporting mother church pastors. This entire team will work together for the next six days. Each missionary team spends the next three days ministering at the first of their two mission points. A normal day of ministry at a mission point consists of spending the morning and early afternoon going from hut to hut and from tree to tree sharing the gospel, leading people to Christ, and encouraging those people to attend the afternoon discipleship session. The afternoon discipleship session is usually conducted from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the location where the new church will be conducting its initial services. Occasionally a missionary team member will even be given the opportunity to share the gospel with a larger audience, such as an entire elementary school, as was the case in the video below.
This next video captures the impact of this ministry. Those who sincerely prayed to receive Christ were asked to raise their hands.
In order to maximize the number of churches being planted, national missionaries are brought in to work in conjunction with the U.S. missionary teams. Those mission points not manned by a U.S. missionary team are assisted by a national missionary. On the morning of the fourth day of the Mission Point Ministry, the missionary teams begin working at the second of their two mission points. This gives each missionary the privilege of assisting in the planting of at least two new churches during each EPPIC Journey. The Mission Point Ministry concludes with a closing ceremony, which is a time of great celebration and Spirit-led worship.
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