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Celebration! Psalms 3 COMING SOON!

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Psalms 3 (Psalms 107-150) will be published this summer. Its publication marks the completion of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® after 40+ years of steadfast work by a team of writers and editors. Praise the Lord!

“The Psalms are the great prayer book of the Bible and at the heart of Christian worship, praise, and adoration. The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® offers a richly detailed and comprehensive study guide to this precious part of God’s Word. A valuable resource for Christian workers everywhere.”  

Dr. Timothy George, Dean

Beeson Divinity School, Samford University

Birmingham, AL

Colombia Update

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In 2015, we learned of pastors in northern Colombia who spent days traveling by canoe, motorcycle, and horseback for the opportunity to learn more about God’s Word and how to minister effectively in their remote communities. These pastors are dedicated to their calling and are hungry for biblical resources and education.

Generous donors, missionaries, and tutors responded to this need and established five learning centers in one year, each equipped with computers, printers, reliable internet service, and Spanish versions of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible®. At these centers, pastors receive online seminary training, and have access to a wealth of digital resources.

Because of your prayers and support, more than 1,000 Spanish language Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bibles® are available in these learning centers. Pastors are encouraged to take a copy home to assist them with preaching and teaching.

They are enthusiastic about The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® – these resources are helping them understand the depth and richness of the Bible, and how to share the gospel with their congregation, friends, neighbors, and throughout the community.

We know that God’s Word can accomplish much as the Holy Spirit moves in the people across Northern Colombia. Thank you for partnering with us through your continued support and prayers.

“We have really enjoyed The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible®.  It has helped us, reinforced our themes and our sermons, and has been a huge blessing for us and for the whole church.” Alonso Alvarez, Pastor, Chinu, Colombia –  View video from Pastor Alvarez here.

Colombia Ministry Partners:

  • The Grace Institute
  • Third Millennium Ministries
  • Edutech Mission
  • The Caribbean Initiative

A Message from the President: Growing and Changing

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As I reflect on my second anniversary at Leadership Ministries Worldwide, it has been an honor and a privilege to walk alongside this dedicated staff and Board of Directors focused on providing The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® to trained pastors, leaders and scholars. It is clear that God is moving in big ways at Leadership Ministries Worldwide. We have seen an unprecedented number of pastors equipped, our materials have gone out to all corners of the world, and we are on the cusp of rolling out Lystra Global – our cloud-based training and translation system.

Already this year, 6,846 books were distributed free of charge to seminaries and training organizations that train and equip pastors in the Global South who are hungry for biblical materials. In the last month, Timothy Olonade, our Vice President of International Training, trained 353 leaders throughout Africa, including pastors, professionals, and leaders in Nigeria, Uganda, and Rwanda.

Our digital training platform, Lystra Global, will launch in June 2016 at the Global Proclamation Congress in Thailand – an event project to be attended by over 5,000 Bible trainers. Using Lystra Global, our training partners can make The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® and other biblical resources easily accessible to pastors and scholars around the world.

Psalms Volume 3 is scheduled for release this summer. This is an exciting event, hailing the completion of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® series. More than 40 years have been dedicated to developing this amazing resource. We appreciate the part you have had in bringing us this far, and we invite you to partner with us in prayer as we celebrate all that God is doing through LMW.

Blessings,

Dave Worland

President and CEO

Pray for Pastors in Yap (yep, Yap)

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Yap – yes, it is a real country – a part of a chain of islands in Micronesia in the Western Pacific. Yap has been home to Christian missionaries for many years. Last week, we shipped 50 Gospel sets of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible®  to pastors serving Christ throughout this island chain. We invite you to pray for the pastors who will be receiving these volumes, and for the congregations and communities they serve. We are thankful to be able to equip these pastors for ministry.

Missionary Paul Zimmer, his wife Sherry, and their six children, have been serving God in Yap for almost 20 years. They have planted churches, trained pastors, and served God in all they do. Paul’s vision for outreach led him to start a Christian radio station, Joy Family Radio, erecting a 200 foot tower without the assistance of cranes or other large machinery. This station now broadcasts 24/7, reaching the furthest ends of the islands.

The Zimmers started a small sawmill on Yap to help residents find lumber to build homes and businesses. Soaring electric power costs led Paul to use his engineering background to install solar panels and windmills on his house and broadcast tower and for the sawmill. He now holds seminars on alternative energy throughout the islands, explaining the importance of alternative energy and sharing gospel truths whenever he can.

Paul and other missionaries on the islands have evangelized, nurtured and trained pastors, and planted churches, all while working to build relationships in their communities. They are excited to be able to give The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® to the local pastors they work with in Yap and across the islands.

Please keep this country, these pastors, and the believers in Yap in your prayers as God’s Word continues to spread around the world.

Saving Souls in Pakistan

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A mere 1.6% of Pakistan’s population is Christian, but that does nothing to dampen Rev. Patras Nazir’s spirit. This visionary, energetic Christian leader has been inspired by the Holy Spirit to train and equip pastors throughout Pakistan.

As founder of Pakistan Christian Leadership Ministries, Rev. Nazir has used his English language skills to translate Outline Bible Resources into Urdu. Leadership Ministries Worldwide’s donors financed the printing of 2,000 sermon booklets based on The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible®. The demand for the books was so great that Rev. Nazir had to print 1,500 additional books: “These resources are unique in Pakistan – such study materials are not available in Pakistan in English or Urdu.”

In the past year, he traveled to multiple cities in different corners of Pakistan, carrying these books to train Christian pastors, church leaders and evangelists. Rev. Nazir travels by train and bus, carrying loads of books on his back or in bags, often through hostile territory. His spirit remains undaunted, as he preaches the Word in every town and village, baptizes new believers, and shares the love and grace of Christ with everyone he encounters. He recently participated in laying the cornerstone for a new church in Rawalpindi, one of the largest cities in Pakistan.

Rev. Nazir is always encouraging: “The greatest rewards of my ministry are the salvation and winning of souls for Christ through our preaching and teaching. When people invite us to return to their churches again and again, it means that God’s Holy Spirit is touching and blessing them through us.”

Rev. Nazir is eager to translate and print more of our resources to be used in his training ministry across Pakistan. “Through our translation work, thousands of people come to know the methods and principles of teaching and preaching, and the profundity of the Biblical message. They have been equipped and trained and are working in different areas throughout Pakistan. We continue this work for the glory of the Lord as God makes it possible for us.”

Would you partner with us in praying for Rev. Nazir’s mission to share God’s Word with the Pakistani people? Will you help fund his efforts to translate and print more resources to be used by pastors there? Click here to donate now.

 

Lystra Global – Train, Connect, Empower

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In Acts 16, the apostle Paul met a young man named Timothy in the city of Lystra. As Paul mentored this new “son in the faith,” Timothy became an effective leader in the early church, helping Paul establish and shepherd many of the first congregations of believers. Today, millions of trainers, missionaries, and church planters in the global church are raising up the next generation of leaders like Timothy. Lystra Global is a powerful tool to train, connect, and empower pastors to reveal Christ to the world.

Lystra Global is a unique cloud-based software system designed to make biblical resources and training easily accessible to pastors around the world. The system connects trainers to students, trainers to trainers, and all users to valuable resources that will empower them to preach and teach effectively. A cloud-based, crowd-sourced translating system will allow resources to be translated into languages spoken around the world. Lystra Global is being tested by collaborating ministries all over the world, and enthusiasm is high. The finished version is scheduled for release mid-2016.

Features of Lystra Global include:

  • Student registration by class
  • Online communication between students and trainers
  • Trainers can connect to network and share best practices and resources
  • View and track usage by students and trainers
  • Upload curriculum, digital books, videos and other resources
  • Access to a digital version of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible®
  • A system that will allow for crowd-sourced translating in languages used in every country in the world.

At Leadership Ministries Worldwide, we believe that as God’s Word is preached by pastors who are trained and mentored in the faith, the Holy Spirit moves, hearts are opened, lives and communities are transformed.

Lystra Global is a unique and valuable tool to train, connect, and empower pastors to reveal Christ to the world. We invite you to partner with us in praying for the successful roll-out of Lystra Global, and that the system will be used for God’s glory.