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Spring 2014
E Q U I P P I N G E V A N G E L I S T S
Vol. 10 - Issue 3
INFLUENCEEnabling Evangelists to Serve the Local Church
HisnameisKennethMurrayandhewasmyfirstChristian mentor. Much of who I am today, as a follower of Jesus, is due to the foundations that Kenneth painstakingly instilled in me when I began my walk with Christ as a young businessman of 23 years of age living in BuenosAires,Argentina.FromKennethIlearnedfirsthandwhat Christian discipleship can look like and am living proof of its importance in the lives of all followers of Jesus. Through Kenneth’s teaching and examples he set a standard for me of what an authentic Christian man, devoted to God, his family and church should be like. Kenneth has left me a much, much, richer man for having walked with him for a season and, although they likely do not know it, the many that I have led to Christ and discipled over the years are simplythebeneficiariesoftheexampleofKennethMurray. Even though Kenneth was a busy marketing executive for a large international corporation, had a wonderful family and was involved in many social and ministry endeavours, he carved out time to meet with me weekly at the “Querandi” restaurant on Avenida Peru in Buenos Aires. Those were amazing and memorable lunches when he coached me through a basic Bible study, answered my unending questions and we prayed together. What I have learned about mentoring (or discipleship if you prefer) from Kenneth is that mentoring is a wise investment of our time. Because he carried a small well worn pocket New Testament and Psalms, I bought myself one and marked it up just like he did in his daily reading. He led people to Christ regularly so I started to do the same. He served in the local church and ever since, so have I. He taught me to give my testimony as a witnessing tool which has led to a great harvest over the years. I learned far more about being a genuine follower of Jesus from watching how Kenneth lived, prayed, witnessed, and treated his family than from what he actually taught me. Within two weeks of my conversion, Kenneth entrusted me to teach a weekly Sunday School class of 6
year olds. You could say he “threw me in the deep end” which forced me to learn about prayer, the Bible and so much more in a hurry. This did me a lot of good! A few years ago OCC invited me to do leadership training for their Latin American leaders at a hotel in Buenos Aires. My wife Diana, who is also from South America, accompanied me and on the visit met the Principal of a school who told her that she had given her life to Christ as a girl of six in my S.S. class. The lady, whose name is Sarah, said: “Tell David that I am still following the Lord and now teaching Sunday School to tell others about Jesus as David told me”. Kenneth released me (and many others) to live a daily adventure with Jesus looking for evangelism opportunities as we went. Kenneth Murray went to be with his Lord a few months ago. I miss him terribly! Now it is up to me to pass on the gospel and love for Jesus that I caught from him.
Written By David Arrol Macfarlane
Evangelism and Mentoring“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19
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Kenneth (left), David
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Financial UpdateTwo new Networks have been launched in the Ottawa area - Ottawa East and Carleton Place/Almonte. Please pray that they will become established and strengthen over the following months together and very soon, their churches will begin to experience improved evangelistic health. As a result of Paul’s visit to the north (article below) there may be Networks starting up in various parts of the Northern Territories – please pray and stay tuned!
New Networks
Catalytic EventsLast Fall, Paul Simons (National Network Director) had a wonderful opportunity to promote Equipping Evangelists amongst churches across the Arctic in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Anglican churches as far east as Iqaluit, NU, as far north as Pond Inlet, NU, in the centre with Rankin Inlet, NU and as far west as Aklavik, NT were represented.
June 16 – 18, 2014 The E2
National Team will be meeting in Burlington, ON to consider ways we can improve on this ministry, for a greater evangelistic influence.ThereisastrongpossibilitythattheTeamwillleadapromotional (Catalytic) event in the Toronto area. Please pray that E2 Networks will start up as a result.
If you and your church would like to host a CatalyticEvent please contact Paul Simons:
[email protected] or 705-716-7271. We can come in person or send a DVD of the entire meeting.
Halfwaythroughthefirstquarterofthisyearweareremindedthatour monthly support base needs to grow – please consider who you might pass this newsletter on to. We thank God for you, our supporters, who make this ministry possible. As we look forward, weareconfidentthatGodwillcontinuetoprovidethroughyourfaithful support, which will enable us to enable evangelists to serve the local church...
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Merv BuddEquipping Evangelists Director1377 Walkers Line, Burlington, ON, L7R3X5T:(905)335-5808 E:[email protected]
