December 2017

Merry Christmas from the Multiplication Team! We greet you this holiday season with great joy and anticipation for the coming year and all that God has in store for us as a movement. We have been busy as a team working on policies and procedures for church planting and multiplication. We have been meeting in person, via Skype, and communicating in other innovative ways. Our goal is to further the Kingdom of God through diligent, Spirit-led discussions about the future of church planting and growth within EFC-ER. Our Christmas wish is that every church, every pastor, and every heart would become engaged in this process. You can partner with us through prayer, financial support, identifying and raising up potential church planters, and sending out church planting teams in this amazing new season of evangelism. In Christ, EFC-ER Multiplication Team (Church Planting) Zach Bohler, Mike Dennis, Brian Donahue, Paul Hoffman, and Samuel Huang

Updates

EFC North Campus Please pray for God's blessing over this schedule: December 16, 2017 - January 7, 2018: Gathering the Launch Team January 10, 2018 - February 4, 2018: Eight training sessions February 10 - 24, 2018: Three preview sessions March 10, 2018 - Launch EFC North!!

AWAKEN at Malone University We just closed out our first semester at Malone, and are very excited about what God has in store for us this coming semester! We averaged 12 students per meeting throughout the semester. We welcomed 35 students for our Night of Worship in November. There is a tight core team of 6 students who are "all in" and committed to the vision to see God bring revival to the campus. God moved in powerful ways in our midst over the last few months. A student experienced healing as we laid hands on her. We saw two students come to the saving knowledge of Jesus, and several students made declarations to take their faith seriously and renewed their commitments to the Lord!

DFC-Salem Launches Hispanic Church  Damascus Friends Church - Salem Campus sponsored a new Hispanic church in Salem, OH that launched on September 17, 2017. There are around 40 people attending the Hispanic-led services.

Prayer Requests

Please pray for all of these church planting projects. Please also pray for our upcoming Ministry Team meetings in February as we continue to take steps toward seeing this vision fulfilled in our movement.

We are asking every pastor and every church to consider how they might risk, engage, and abide within this church planting vision.