OUR HISTORY

“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” – Habakkuk 2:14

Habakkuk 2:14, 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. It started with a vision God placed on the heart of Mike Downey to help nationals plant churches, and over the last few decades, God has used this ministry to do just that. He’s guided us through challenges and growth, and through it all, the vision has stayed the same. e3 Partners remains focused on helping nationals plant healthy, multiplying, transformative churches all across the world, and we will continue to do so until there is a local church accessible to every person, everywhere.

The Early Years

In 1985, Mike Downey led a group from his church in Oklahoma to Mexico for a mission trip. While there, they saw over 100 people accept Christ into their lives, and when they returned the next year, a church had been planted! Mike called it, “accidental church planting.” He was moved by the passion of these Mexican believers, and as he returned from that second trip, God gave him a vision. He founded Global Missions Fellowship (GMF) with the intent to serve nationals and plant churches in Mexico (on purpose), and it wasn’t long before God expanded that vision further.

In 1990, the collapse of the Soviet Union opened doors that allowed GMF to expand into Eastern Europe, and four years after that, we expanded to Africa as well.

In 1996, God expanded our vision to the entire world, and GMF began taking trips to areas within the 10/40 window.

Over the next two years, God revealed to us the concept of church planting movements (CPMs), which we began incorporating into our short-term trips strategy. There then became a clear need for some scalable evangelism and discipleship tools, which led to the development of the EvangeCube.

The EvangeCube provided our trip participants and national partners with a simple, easily comprehendible way of sharing the gospel. We began using it on all of our trips, and we’d train those who came to accept Christ on how to use it as well, encouraging them to go share the Good News with others.

The 2000s

In 2002, God revealed to us another idea that we refer to as “initiatives”. Essentially, the idea was to combine the evangelistic aspects of our short-term trips with an aid/relief aspect as well.

Medical church planting was our first initiative.

We began taking these types of trips to areas that were severely lacking in accessible medical care, and God used our medical service to open doors to countless families and individuals who had not yet heard the gospel. It was amazing to see how God could use the medical expertise and service of our teams to ultimately lead people to Him.

In 2006, we became e3 Partners Ministry.

Equip God’s people, evangelize His world, establish His church. Those are the three “e’s”, perfectly aligned with the original vision God gave Mike Downey in 1987.

Two years later, the I Am Second brand launched in Dallas, TX, focused on reaching people with powerful Gospel-centered stories through the ever-growing presence of digital media. It quickly became a national brand, and has now grown internationally as well, allowing us to spread the gospel to many people and places we may not be able to get to physically.

That same year, e3 Partners started its “Orality” initiative in Ethiopia. Many communities across Ethiopia speak languages that the Bible has not been translated into yet. The orality initiative focuses on developing strategies and scripts to share the gospel and other Biblical stories with these people through oral storytelling.

By the end of 2008, e3 was taking trips to dozens of countries around the world, and we’d organized the ministry into regional and country teams.

Recent Years

In 2014, we added a more focused training element to the ministry. Training new believers and Christian leaders had always been a part of what we did on our trips, but now there was an added emphasis on training outside of our church planting trips as well. Both domestically and internationally, through one on one meetings, discipleship groups, church gatherings, and other opportunities, we began training new believers how to share their testimonies and the gospel, and training more mature believers on how to disciple others and plant churches.

Then, in 2017, through God’s guidance we employed an integrated Four Fields strategy locally and globally to create something we call the “Great Commission Pipeline”.

The Great Commission Pipeline connects our trips, trainings, international workers, national partners and church partnerships all together to increase the effectiveness and speed at which we reach people far from God.

Looking back on the last 30+ years, it’s amazing to see how God has been at work the whole time. The expansion of our vision from Mexico to the whole world, the addition of initiatives and scalable evangelism tools like the EvangeCube, and now 3-Circles, the added training element, the 4 Fields strategy, the Great Commission Pipeline, it’s all been from God. He’s led this ministry the whole time and has allowed us to do some amazing work for His Kingdom.

In recent years, through our 4 Fields strategy and the implementation of the Great Commission Pipeline, we’ve seen the Gospel reach further and spread faster than ever before. We truly live in an unprecedented time in history. God is moving all across the world.

Come join us as we work to make Habakkuk 2:14 a reality!

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Since September of 2011, God has really been moving in my life.  He has taken me from a Christian who was on a roller coaster ride through life and transformed me into a true follower of Christ.  He has brought a new perspective to my understanding of what He has put me in this world to do.  His word has come alive and I realize what “The Great Commission” really means.  I also know what it means, now, to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  I just want to take a few moments to tell you some of the things God has done.

 In my home town of Forest City, North Carolina, God pulled me out of a life where I was aimlessly searching for anything to fill that void in my life to an understanding that He is all I need.  He showed me that my purpose for being here was to love Him with all my heart, to love my neighbor as myself and to GO and make disciples.  As I began to understand this, I also started digging deeper into His word and falling more in love with Him.  As my love for Him grew, so did my love for people (my neighbors).  As my love for people grew, so did my desire to make disciples.  You see, it all goes hand in hand. 

            God has allowed me the privilege to personally lead over 30 people to Christ since December of 2012 and over 60 people have received Christ as a result of this.  This has happened because someone took the time to train and disciple me in a very simple, reproducing process.  I have been busy over the past 3 years sharing with and training people to do this same process.  This has happened through prayer walking, disciple making groups in homes and doing trainings in different states throughout the US.  As a result of God’s call on my life, I have joined a Church Planting organization known as e3 Partners and I am Second.  Joining this mission organization classifies me as a United States Missionary.

            In February of 2014, God’s call on my life has brought me to Austin, Texas for 12 months.  I am continuing to make reproducing disciples here in Austin as a part of a ministry team in this area.  My efforts here also include prayer walking, looking for people and houses of peace, disciple making groups in homes, and doing reproducing discipleship trainings. 

            I would love to invite you to join my ministry team.  God has no doubt called me into this field and it would be a great privilege to have you join me.  Please pray for me as I follow God’s call on my life, join me in the harvest field as we go out and search for these people in whom God is already at work, and be a part of my financial support team as I continue to serve God as a full time US Missionary.  I will include the information needed for you to join the ministry team.

 

You can continue to see updates from me in the form of a newsletter monthly(If you want to receive my newsletter, send me your email or physical address). Please continue to pray for me and how you can be a part of this ministry!!!

 

For more information on me and how you can be involved, please visit: www.e3partners.org/ClintHarrill, email me at clint.harrill@e3partners.org or call/text at (828)748-1172


Contributions can be made directly on my fundraiser page or mailed to:
e3PARTNERS   2001 W. Plano Parkway    Suite 2600    Plano, TX   75075  with Clint Harrill  #637 in the memo line

  • Running Around like crazy, but back in NC since November 15, 2014.

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    Shortly after returning to North Carolina, God blessed me with a "tent making" opportunity, but I had to go to Canada to do it!! I spent almost 2 months there working construction in a hospital. It was hard work but definitely a blessing.

    From February 17-23 I had the opportunity to go to Stuart, Florida for an e3USA retreat and that was refreshing. We rolled out a Level 1 training for some of the newer folks on the team and we got to spend time out in the harvest sharing the gospel and loving on people.....my favorite!!

    As I'm trying to get settled back in, God has shown me many things and is giving me clarity on His purpose for my life here in North Carolina and beyond. I had a chance to go to San Antonio to the George Strait team roping.....It was a lot of fun and I was blessed to be able to do that, but I doubled it as an opportunity to connect with a couple who are awesome mentors in my life and learned so much from them. I also had a chance to reconnect with a lot of the folks that I worked with in Austin in the form of a gathering at one of their homes on that Saturday evening. It was a very productive trip and it was so exciting to see how God is still using those folks in Austin. Praise God!!

    Since getting back, I've been continuing to do some "tent making" as well as continuing to work towards getting to 100% support. I'm scheduling appointments and trying to be efficient with my time. We have a training planned here in Forest City on March 27-28. It will be an L1 training on Friday and then prayer walking on Saturday. God is also beginning to give me more opportunities to travel to other areas to co-labor and train. Please be in prayer as I travel to Nashville for 3-4 weeks, leaving Mach 31 and then I fly to Sacramento, CA on May 4th to spend 2 weeks in the harvest and training there.

    I am so thankful for God's divine appointments and giving me these opportunities to train here in my home town and the blessing to go to other places. As these opportunities come up more often, please pray about how God wants you to be involved. I covet your prayers, encourage you to reach out to people in your own communities and pray about partnering with me financially so that I can continue to go wherever the Lord calls me.

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