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E3 Colombia is a movement to advance God’s kingdom, through the equipping of Colombian church leaders and Christians, with biblical, simple, transferable tools and models, which are designed to motivate local churches to preach the gospel and make disciples of Jesus Christ by starting and establishing new churches across the country.

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On Expedition

EVANGELISM

“The gospel is the power of God unto salvation” (Romans 1:16b). You will see the truth of this verse spring to a fresh level in Colombia! Our team members are experiencing a tremendous openness among many Colombians to spiritual things and in particular to the gospel of Christ. In fact, evangelism constitutes the main focus of our North American Team members as we minister side-by-side with our Colombian brothers and sisters in Christ. Excellent translators use their talents to work with our teams to enable us to share our personal testimony and the gospel of Jesus Christ with men, women, young people and children. On every expedition the host pastors and churches target multiple communities for the important work of evangelism, discipleship and church establishing.

YO SOY SEGUNDO / I AM SECOND

After leading people to personal faith in Jesus Christ our intention is to begin gathering them together with other Christians in their community. Each afternoon of the expedition we invite new believers to come to the church planting mission site in the community. The approach is not to host a tradition church service, but rather to use Yo Soy Segundo discipleship small groups to help people learn to interact with the written Word of God in the format of simple discussions. Six basic questions are used to facilitate discussions around different bible passages. It is important to realize that for many of the new believers, this could be the first time they are reading and interacting with the bible in such a manner. The goal is to help develop personal relationships around the Word and spiritual things in the community to help start and/or strengthen the church.

CHURCH ESTABLISHING

The word ‘church’ can be loaded with many different images and meanings depending upon your experience. In Colombia, we learn to think of church in a new way. And quite frankly this means ‘church’ that is more aligned and reflective of the days of the early New Testament. We are not talking about buildings that draw large numbers of people from a region who come by cars. We are more often talking about simple churches, meeting in homes and halls, consisting of people who gather from reasonable walking distance! You might call it ‘simple church’. Our purpose is not only to ‘plant or start’ churches – our purpose is to ‘establish’ communities of believers in Jesus Christ. Establishing means to help the church to be stable in their love for God, doctrine and leadership; and mobile in their outreach to impact their community as the light and salt of Jesus.

Mission

Equipping Colombian pastors and church leaders who are called of God into mentoring relationships for the purpose of establishing and multiplying healthy churches, which are purposed to be transformational in their communities. Our ultimate prayer, and purpose, is help fuel a church establishing movement that God will ignite to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ across the country of Colombia and beyond. While running short term mission trips for North Americans is a core dimension of our approach and model, these trips are not an end in themselves. The trips are deployed with strategic intention to catalyze the Colombian churches for Great Commission mobilization. The ultimate purpose is to influence churches with an outreach orientation for establishing multiplying local churches.

Strategy

MENTOR NETWORK

The Mentor Network is the main delivery model for equipping and mentoring.

The Network consists of 12 monthly modules, which address the basic dimensions of a healthy church with the purpose of multiplying churches. Health for the individual disciple and church becomes sustainable by embracing obedience to Biblical Stability (Great Commandment) and Biblical Mobility (Great Commission). Supplemental training modules dig deeper into Healthy Groups, Healthy Word, Healthy Marriage and Healthy Community Transformation.

Over this past year we have interviewed many Colombian pastors and leaders concerning their opinion of the benefits from participating in the Mentor Network. Their responses have been consistent and encouraging. Words and phrases like: ‘Efficient; Practical; Provides specific support; We don’t feel alone; Mentoring; Guidance; Useful tools’ and more. One pastor said, “I soak it up like a sponge.”

The E3 Colombia Mentor Network is currently in the best position it has ever enjoyed for multiplying growth. Our ultimate prayer and purpose is to be part of a church establishing movement that God will ignite across the country of Colombia and beyond! Over the past several years we have witnessed God building the network dimensions and bringing the right people to lead it. We are humbled, and thank God for the challenge and opportunity in our generation.

CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN THE CHURCH

Many Colombian churches are caught in a traditional model of local church ministry, which centers the church firmly ‘inside the walls’. The church is ‘in’ their community, but not intentionally ‘engaging’ the community. There is little to no vision for reaching out to evangelize, disciple and start more churches. The Mentor Network specifically addresses such fundamental struggles and lifts spiritual leaders and their churches to embrace in a fresh way the Great Commandments (Love God & Love Your Neighbor) and the Great Commission (Make Disciples).

Bi-vocational leaders, who have no formal training, often lead churches in Colombia. E3 Colombia’s Mentor Network meets this dramatic need to equip such Colombian church leaders to understand Biblically healthy church. Network churches grow as light and salt in their communities pursuing spiritual impact with the gospel of Jesus Christ and social impact to meet relevant community needs. The vision and practical path to multiply disciples and churches becomes intentional as never before. Another stark reality is the lack of training on how to correctly handle the Word of God in interpretation and communication of sound doctrine. The Mentor Network provides equipping in Healthy Word, which teaches basic hermeneutical principles for correctly handling the Word of Truth.

OPPORTUNITY

Over the last few years, the ministry of e3 Colombia has accelerated with the birth of the Mentor Network. Intentionality, ownership and urgency have taken hold! In His providential timing, God has been sending the right people to lead the Network and to develop the content, which has lifted it to a scalable posture. The opportunity to establish new Networks across the country and maintain the current Networks is ripe. There are hundreds of churches across Colombia in small cities and towns who are hungry for Biblical, simple, useful tools and models which can establish them which both stability and mobility as the body of Christ.

Mentor Network

Healthy Church Modules

12 monthly modules address the basic dimensions of healthy church.

The goal is to develop sustainable churches that possess a balance in stability and mobility.

Sustainability = Stability + Mobility / Yielding Multiplying Churches

12 Monthly Module Topics:

Expansion 2020 Introduction / Mentor Network Covenant / 4-Fields
Evangelism / 4-Fields
I am Second discipleship groups / 4-Fields
Community Transformation – Introduction
Discipleship / 4-Fields
Understanding & Communicating the Bible
Leadership / 4-Fields
Vital Functions of the Church-part 1: Proclamation/Teaching/Service/Fellowship/Worship
Vital Elements of the Church-part 2:

Vision /Ministry/Leadership/Resources/Real Application

Marital Prayer / Just Say The Word
Spiritual Disciplines
Church Administration

HEALTHY WORD – Understanding and Communicating the Bible

It is foundational for pastors and leaders to handle accurately the Word of Truth in shepherding the flock of God. Healthy Word is focused training leaders in basic Biblical interpretative principles to help them learn how to better understand and communicate the Bible with clarity and accuracy.

Tool: Understanding and Communicating the Bible – training principle mentors in Jonah (O.T.) and 2 Timothy (N.T.) with 8 key interpretive principles. These seminars are being currently developed and initially integrated to the Network with the leadership of North Hills Community Church and Leadership Resources.

HEALTHY MARRIAGE – Just Say the Word (ie. Solo Ora Con La Palabra)

A healthy marriage is the core of the family; and healthy families are central to the church. Solo Ora Con La Palabra is a message and model calling Christian husbands to pray more intentionally and more regularly with their wives using the Bible as a guide for their prayers.

Tool: Solo Ora Con La Palabra is the Spanish translation of Sam Ingrassia’s book ‘Just Say The Word’. We are intentionally providing this tool to the Mentor Network pastors and leaders. We are also bringing this tool to Colombian national awareness through the official endorsement of CEDECOL (Confederation of Evangelicals in Colombia).

HEALTHY DISCIPLESHIP GROUPS – Yo Soy Segundo (I am Second)

Calling Christians to live radical lives under the priority and primacy of God’s command to love Him with all their heart, soul, mind and strength. I am Second is a small groups model to train for intentional evangelism, basic discipleship, conserving the harvest, and new church establishing.

Tool: E3 Partners 4-Fields Training manual (Disciples Making Disciples) and Yo Soy Segundo Training materials are used to equip believers in an intentional and personal path for participating in disciple making ministry.

4-Fields Disciple Making & Church Planting Approach:

Field 1: Empty Field – Start with Friends and Family / House of Peace / Go & Pray

Field 2: Seeded Field – Sow the Reproducing Gospel

Field 3. Growing Field – Multiply Disciples in Small Groups

Field 4: Harvest Field – Become a Church

HEALTHY COMMUNITY – Community Transformation

Built upon Jesus’ command to ‘love your neighbor’ local churches are awakened to engage their local communities with relevant projects to enhance the dignity and development of the community and its people. The church is called to functionally serve its community as salt and light from God. The church is not an organization designed to escape the community, but an organism designed to mobilize for engaging and impacting its community.
Tool: The Nehemiah Seminar provides guidance for local church leaders to identify, plan and mobilize for serving their communities with the love of God through relevant and meaningful projects using local assets.

Testimonies

“I am thankful for the special blessing of personally seeing God’s grace and power through my association with e3 Colombia over the past 2-3 years. It’s amazing to think back a few years ago and see what God has done in our church, in e3 Partners, in Colombia and in me. I am very humbled when I think of how God connected us all and continues to connect others for His work all over the world and for His glory. It’s an amazing thing to be used by God for His good purposes.”

-Pastor Joel Taylor, North Hills Community Church

“I am very pleased with our partnership with E3 Colombia. I could hardly imagine being more satisfied with the way this is going. I am doing everything in my power to get the word out about what a fruitful ministry this is — through videos, print, personal connections, etc. I am really praying God will give us at least 30 trip participants next year.

It has been such a blessing and I thank God again for His providence in bringing us together His kingdom purposes. I look forward to a great year!”

-Pastor Allan Sherer,North Hills Community Church

“As for me coming home was a very interesting experience. Being with my family and sharing the experiences I had was awesome. Going back to work was a little different. I kept thinking about Ecclesiastes and how everything under the sun is meaningless compared to God. I have been telling everyone about our experience. Coworkers. The youth pastor I serve under at church and friends from other churches. I even tell people to dare me to go talk to a perfect stranger about Jesus, because I will and want to. They think I’m joking; I’m not! There are plenty of people there who know some of pieces of the puzzle of the gospel, but are never the less lost.”

-Andrew Cardoni

“I am still pondering what God accomplished in many Colombian’s and our own lives this past week and trying to look for opportunities to share here at home! Pray for me if you can! My testimony summed up would be that I had shared the gospel some before going on the Cali trip, but never to the extent and with the depth that I shared there. I made an effort to see people through God’s eyes as lost and hurting souls before the trip, but God is really changing my life because now I am more comfortable with sharing the gospel and I enjoy doing it now and leading lost souls to the Lord! God showed me in Cali that He is doing a wondrous work of drawing souls to Him and, as His followers, we have the privilege to witness that. Press on for the gospel!”

-Seth Franseen

“I thoroughly enjoyed this recent trip to Colombia with E3 Partners. It changes you and I hope to go on many more and soon. Just as scripture is written to change us and not for us to use as a stick to try and change others, so this trip was for me and may of the others. God uses it to change us probably more so than changing others. Life is backwards and so is scripture. Jesus said, “For I did not come to be served but to serve”, “the first shall be last and the last shall be first” and the list goes on and on. So it is when you go on a mission trip! You go to help and be obedient, and you end up being helped. Life is actually real when you are there and coming home to all the “stuff” and “religion” is difficult.”

-Tim Key

“It really is a blessing to be able to come on these expeditions and to be used by God, and to see what the Lord is doing in Colombia. Just wanted to say your teaching in the mornings stay with me even after the campaigns are over. They are so filled with God’s truth and I often think of the things you taught on and I learn a lot from it. It was a great week – Praise the Lord! I hope I can come again in the future if that’s what the Lord wants me to do.”

-Ryan Kaplysh

“This expedition to Colombia changed my life. I learned more about how God is so good and faithful, worthy of trust, and that my matured faith in Him will allow me to trust Him more because of this trip.”

-Morgan Burklow

“I was very blessed spending a week with the people from Bogota, and seeing such an open response to the Gospel message had a great impact on my life. Shortly after we returned from Bogota Colombia I was able to speak to our congregation about the trip and tell them how God changed my heart prior to going.

I had put together a list of my top ten reasons why I WAS NOT going to Bogota:

It costs too much;
I don’t speak Spanish;
It’s too hot;
I’m too busy doing God’s work here;
I’m too old;
I’ll get killed by a drug dealer;
They don’t like Americans;
They won’t listen to me;
I’ll probably die eating the food and/or drinking the water;
That funky little EvangeCube will never work.

Great reasons not to go, right?

So then I proceeded to tell our congregation that I shared the gospel with over 100 people and that at least 87 (I have each of their names) of them made a profession of faith in Jessu Christ. The Holy Spirit preceded me and He prepared the hearts of those that I talked to. The rest is history. All of my reasons for not going were invalid, and I was blessed beyond measure. That Sunday after our church service, several people came up to me with tears in their eyes, saying sign me up for next year. HALLELUJAH!!!

For the next couple of months I met over 25 people to personally invite them to go back to Bogota with me . . . 22 agreed. PRAISE THE LORD!

Sorry to ramble on, but I am still excited. When I reflect back on the faces of some of the people that I met, it brings tears of joy to my eyes.”

-Director of Church Ministries Fred Walker, Perry Hall Baptist Church

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Bernando Gonzalez

National Director

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Jason Morris

Assistant Strategy Director

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Jeff Thompson

Coffee District Coordinator

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Ashleigh York

Church Planting Coordinator

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Friends,

I want to personally thank you for your continued prayer and support of my ministry with e3 Partners. We are constantly amazed by everything God is accomplishing in Nigeria and you have been a part of it.

On Thursday, September 8, we are celebrating e3 Giving Day. Every online donation completed on this very special day will be enhanced by a bonus pool offered by several generous contributors. This means that if you make an additional gift on e3 Giving Day, a percentage of this bonus pool will be added to it, making it go farther!

So how can you participate?

1. Follow e3 Partners on Facebook. This is a great opportunity to connect with others who are supporting me and other field staff on September 8. You can also learn about the exciting things God is doing through us!

2. Pray about how you might participate. As September 8 approaches, prayerfully consider how you could support my ministry with an additional gift.

3. Visit my online fundraising page. On September 8, go online and make a donation of any amount by visiting: https://www.purecharity.com/fundraisers/5758/fund

Your donation will be credited to my support account, along with a percentage of the bonus pool.I can’t thank you enough for your support. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at Dennis.Larkin@e3partners.org or (909) 815-5471.

Until the whole world hears,

Dennis Larkin
e3 Nigeria

Today is E3 Partners annual Giving Day.

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Today is the day that your donation is enhanced to make an even bigger difference in our partnering with our Nigerian partners in evangelism, discipleship and Church Planting. Thank you for helping us to continue this vital ministry. God bless you

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E3Partners Giving Day 2019 is coming soon

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Habakkuk 2:14 tells us, “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea,” and that’s what we’ve been working towards since e3 Partners began in 1987 – filling the earth with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. Last year alone, through God’s immeasureable power, we saw over 500,000 people come to know Christ and over 46,000 churches planted.

The word “partners” is in our name for a reason. The work God does through this ministry could not be done without all the people who partner with us on trips, at trainings, financially, through prayer, and by other means. That includes you. You have made an immense impact for the Kingdom of God, and I am grateful for you.

We’re seeing the gospel spread at rapidly increasing rates, but there is still work to be done. Across the world, there are 3.1 billion people who are far from God. That’s the entire U.S. population times ten!

Hearing that makes you want to do something, right? It motivates us every day at e3. It pushes us to continue raising up disciples and planting churches so that the gospel may spread like wildfire throughout the earth, and this September, there’s an opportunity for you to help us add more fuel to that “fire”. – e3 Giving Day!

What is e3 Giving Day?

e3 Giving Day is an event from 6AM to midnight on Thursday, September 12th to help raise awareness and support for e3 Partners. Every donation made to a staff support account that day will be enhanced by a pool of bonus funds. That means on September 12th, every dollar is worth more than $1!

This is an opportunity to go above and beyond, to help us do more. More churches planted. More baptisms. More disciples of Christ! So how can you participate?
- Mark September 12, 2019 on your calendar! Remember this date!
- Spread the word! Share e3 Partners’ Giving Day posts on Facebook & Twitter, and tell your friends and family about it. Help get others involved!
- Pray about participation.
- Visit my online fundraising page. On September 12, to make a donation by visiting: https://purecharity.com/fundraisers/5758/fund or visit www.e3partners.org/givingday. You can also make a donation via check by following these instructions:
1. The mailing envelope containing the check MUST be postmarked on September 12, 2019
2. The check must be mailed directly to the e3 Partners Plano Office: 2001 W Plano Parkway, Suite 2600 Plano, TX 75075

3. The mailing envelope MUST also contain a note that indicates the check is for e3 Giving Day and the specific staff support account
*This note can be handwritten
Your donation will be credited to my support account, along with a portion of the bonus funds.

Again, I am so grateful for you. Your generosity and partnership with e3 Partners have made a significant impact for the Kingdom of God and for me personally.

If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email at dennis.larkin@e3partners.org or give me a call at 909-815-5471.
Until the whole world hears,

Dennis Larkin

Nigeria Strategy Director

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Nigeria and Greece in One trip

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I am so privileged to be leading a trip to Nigeria June 28-May 20. We will be training about 30 Reproducing Disciple Makers at each of 15 individual training days. They will be equipped to: share their salvation story, the Gospel, Prayer walking/knocking, discipleship and much more. Please join me in prayerfully supporting these newly trained evangelist and disciple makers as they begin a new ministry of presenting the Gospel to every Nigerian.

I will then join an e3 medical team in Greece to bring medical aid and compassion to the Syrian refugees in Greece and to share with them the love of God and the Gospel to begin a church planting movement in Greece and beyond.

Please pray for me and my partners as we serve HIM by serving them.

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Giving Day 2016 Update

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Tuesday was a very good day for our ministry efforts
You all made a huge impact for HIS Kingdom.

You all donated $5,550 on Tuesday to my account.

You also committed an additional monthly increase of $300 per month

Personally I know of some who tried to make donations and were unable. I have some good news about that too.

I received a message late Tuesday night from our president of e3:
Pure Charity’s third-party server company experienced a severe problem that negatively impacted the performance of their platform and caused some donors to experience delays and other errors. We are terribly sorry and we apologize to you and to your donors, though it was something beyond both e3 and Pure Charity.

To help make up for today’s glitch, we are working with Pure Charity and the server provider to make sure their servers are stabilized and up for another go at it. Therefore, we will have an e3 Giving Day Part Two…

The next day we learned that they are extending the Giving Day from now until September 30.

That means if you know someone who missed out or had trouble please let them know of this amazing opportunity.

Thank you so much for giving of your hard earned resources and thank you for encouraging me so wonderfully.

God bless you

Dennis Larkin

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November Nigeria Training Trip

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In just a little over 2 months I will be in Nigeria, training trainers, church planters and disciple makers from virtually every denomination in Nigeria. This is our first official trip and I am blown away by what God is already doing. This is truly the beginning steps of a new church planting movement and I have a front row seat and I want you to sit next to me and see what God does. I will also be training these leaders and future leaders are ways to prevent Human Trafficking.

e3partners' annual Giving Day is Tuesday September 20. It is a 24 hour event to raise funds for the work of God is specific places. My fund is for my work in Nigeria. It is also a way to increase awareness of e3partners. You can be a huge help by both giving financially on Giving Day and also promote Giving Day to others. I want to encourage you to do both. Would you also pray for this day to raise the needed resources.

Thanks for you involvement in advancing HIS Kingdom.

God bless you

Dennis Larkin

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The Adventure begins

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I love adventure and a good challenge especially when it involves others. I am starting to take the first steps in a new adventure that is taking me nearly halfway around the world. I’m headed to Nigeria to influence the country for His kingdom.

Here are a few facts you may not know about Nigeria. Nigeria is twice the size of California and has half the population of the entire USA. Nigeria is the 3 largest English speaking nation in the world, after India and the USA. Nigeria is the 8th most populous country in the world. The vast majority of people in Nigeria do not have a real relationship with the God who created them.

e3 is partnering in this adventure wth local church leaders and other ministries first in Lokoja Nigeria. We’re training trainers who will train church planters. This is 2 Timothy 2:2 in action.

Nigeria is a country that has nearly been torn in two by the Boko Haram. Our God is a God of salvation and redemption and restoration. Pray for the people of Nigeria to seek after God and that God would rescue them by His mighty hand.

Here is a little background about e3partners
In 29 years e3partners has:
Planted 104,000 Churches
Trained 500,000 Nationals
Presented the gospel 5.4 Million times
Recorded 2.4 Million Professions of Faith
Currently in 50 Countries
Goal is to plant 1 Million reproducing churches by 2020

I want to invite you to partner with me.
Will you financially support this ministry monthly
Will you prayerful support this ministry
Will you join me on a Church Planting Trip
Will you recommend to me others that may desire to partner with me

Thanks for taking the time to visit my page.

Until the Whole World Knows HIM

Dennis Larkin

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