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Beyond Imagination
Evangelism and Discipleship!! This is our purpose, our calling, and our passion! We are alive to see precious souls meet their Savior and then come to maturity to love Him fully! There is nothing in this world more valuable than the soul of a person. They are worth fighting for, worth living for, and worth laying your life down for. We are fighting for the eternal lives of God’s creation. We will not stop!
Evangelism is the front door and discipleship is the rest of the house. But it is all the same house. For us, evangelism and discipleship are not separate ministries. Jesus said in Matthew 28 to go into all the world and make disciples; not just converts. Our hearts have been arrested to boldly evangelize to the full extent of our means and to disciple as widely and deeply as possible.
Today is the day!!!! I have been working toward this day for a long time. It is finally done. I have finished writing the 52 week discipleship book! I am so excited! This project means so much to me. After over 9 years or discipling pastors, leaders, and churches in Mozambique, my heart still breaks at the spiritual condition of many, and the everyday battle they face. With challenges because of lack of education availability, resources, Bibles, teachers, and sound leaders, there remains a dangerous amount of ignorance, false teaching, sin, bad traditions, and weak leadership. But now, we have another powerful tool to help bring life, correction, knowledge, and intimacy with Jesus.
Tawnya is in process to format and ready the book for printing. In just a few weeks we will be shipping them to all 300 churches under our care. They are the perfect tool to fortify all current church member, to use as a new believer’s study, and be used to establish new church plants.
These teaching will reach many thousands that have never had access to simple study materials.
We are also going to make this book downloadable on our website, in English and Portuguese, as a resource for others that would find it useful.
God Bless you in all the ways you spread the message of the gospel where you are and abroad!!
More Evangelists are trained in Mozambique!
The harvest is plentiful, and the workers are rising up!
I’ve just returned home from teaching a three-week evangelism training in a neighboring province. 12 Mozambican men from eight different districts were chosen to be trained and then sent back to their homes with the authority to train the other churches and multiply the harvest. The students were trained for one on one and gospel truck evangelism.
The last week of the training they preached in over 40 different gospel truck outreaches and lead 1063 people to a decision for Christ!
Amongst all the salvations and miracles, one testimony from one of the student evangelists, Domingo, stands out above the rest. Domingo testified that just a year earlier he had been an abusive drunk. He testified of not just beating his wife, but his female neighbor as well.
His wife a believer attended church and would pray for him. She told him one day that as she slept, she had a dream where she saw him standing in front of a multitude preaching. Domingo thought the dream was silly and that it would never happen, but the Lord was working on his heart.
He finally started going to church, received the Lord, and was set free from his addiction to alcohol!
Through the evangelism training, his wife’s prophetic dream of him preaching was fulfilled.
Domingo then testified that on the last day of outreach we were in his neighborhood, and he was called on to preach the gospel to the very people who knew him as a drunk. Many responded to the gospel.
When he was finished, he approached three older men to the side and ended up personally leading them to the Lord. He explained that these three men were friends that used to drink with him and sell him alcohol. When he had no money, he would beg alcohol off them.
Now, set free from his addiction, in love with Jesus, and equipped to share the gospel, he had the privilege to lead his old drinking buddies to our precious Savior!
I am constantly taken back by the thought of how immeasurable the work of God is.
Yes, for a week of outreach, we may be able to show a certain number of decisions for Christ.
Then I think, what could the possible number of souls impacted for Christ be through the lives of even 12 young men in the bush towns of Mozambique who are truly equipped to preach the gospel?
It is truly immeasurable!
Amazed at His Ways
Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago. Isaiah 25:1
This verse beautifully communicates how my heart feels these days. I’m in great awe of God and how He authors each one of our stories. Through it all He proves to be so faithful. I’m excited to bring you some of the good news and testimonies about what God has been doing since our return to Mozambique in January.
First, we have been seeing such an increase of hunger within the young people right around our home. Twice a week young people from all over our town, even from other churches, come to worship and dig in deep to the Word. Tawnya has led this group so well and continues to see it grow every week. She is seeing young people truly turn to righteousness and cultivate a deep desire for God. Just last week another newcomer surrendered his life to Jesus!
In March I conducted our first evangelism training school. For two weeks, 14 Mozambicans were trained in the gospel and how to preach. Then we hit the streets for a full week of preaching! We split into three teams and preached throughout multiple villages seeing salvation’s and healings everywhere we went! As a result we saw over 1440 Individuals make decisions to follow Jesus. Each new believer was also sent with discipleship material and followed up with by a local church. The greatest testimony for me throughout the school was in seeing the Mozambicans raised up to do the work. They truly became preachers of the gospel! Thousands more will hear the gospel because of what was established in their hearts.
Now the season has shifted as I have partnered together with Christ for all Nations to help set up a large gospel crusade in the city of Beira. This is no small task! Preparation started in February, and we are now in full time efforts to organize every aspect of this crusade. We are hoping to see between 100,000 and 200,000 people attend, thousands to be saved, and the region around the city to be transformed by the kingdom of God. The dates for the crusade will be September 15-18. Please be in prayer with us for this great event that it would far exceed our expectancies and even what we can plan in the natural! God will receive the glory!
Lincoln, Haley, and Ahava continue to thrive. They are so amazing and every day we are taken back by the gift that they are. They are great kids and have amazing hearts. They are missionaries also to the glory of God.
We are asking that all of you partner with us in intercession for the continuance of what God is doing here. Please be praying for transformed lives through the crusade that’s coming. And please continue to lift us up in the strength of the Lord that Tawnya and I and our family would continue to fulfill the calling that He has placed on us and that thousands upon thousands would be impacted for all of eternity!
Over 1400 decisions for Christ in just 2 weeks!!
Our School of Evangelism graduates are well equipped and ready to preach!!
Fourteen students from 7 different districts came for a 3-week evangelism training school. To say it was epic is an understatement.
“Every student left transformed.
Through what they have learned, entire provinces will be transformed “
The first week of school focused on laying a foundation of excellency, training the students to be well prepared, on time, put together, and spiritually strengthened. During the first week of school, the students were taught salvation, this may seem weird for seasoned believers but this is a much-needed lesson here in Mozambique as most Christians think they are saved because they go to church.
Through the teaching of the gospel, the students began to see that salvation comes solely through Jesus and Him crucified. They were taught how to share the gospel in a simple way that tells why Jesus died for us. We teach a basic 3 point way of sharing salvation and the students nailed it!! After the foundations were laid, they were taught about healing and deliverance. All an essential part of the grand gospel and what was paid for on the cross through Jesus’ death.
The second week of school was packed full of storytelling lessons, how to share the complete gospel without leaving holes, and how to provide an opportunity for people to ask for salvation, healing, testimonies, sound equipment, using a generator. They were taught how to engage the crowd, navigate transitions and speak a clear, bold gospel message.
Each student spent hours memorizing their stories, bible verses, healing and salvation prayers. They worked on voice projections and animation while speaking. All of this was new to them but incredibly necessary for good gospel truck outreach.
What a week!! Teaching the students how to run a gospel campaign from start to finish is essential for them to learn so it can be replicated in their districts.
After class the students went door to door, evangelizing the local community, and sharing the gospel as they had learned. Daily dozens were coming into the kingdom, people were getting healed and the students were building testimonies of their hard work and the power of the simple Gospel.
The third week of school was dedicated to gospel truck campaigns. We loaded 3 trucks with sound equipment, follow-up discipleship materials for new believers, and divided the students into teams. We Hit the streets, markets, and neighborhoods. Eric, me, and a missionary Peter drove the trucks and oversaw the team but the entire campaign was Mozambican-led.
We did dozens of outreaches over the course of 5 days. This isn’t an easy task, it is not like America where we can freely set up a stage and speak as we wish. In Mozambique, we have to get permission from the top government down to set up in any location and teach. Praise GOD we had favor and the gospel was preached.
After people receive the Gospel and they choose to make a decision for Christ, our team goes and hands out a form that new believers fill in, this form has their contact information on it, we count the forms and then leave them with the local pastor in the area to do follow up with them and invite them into a local church. Each new believer is also given a book that teaches the foundations of faith.
Our goal is not to just see hands raised but also to help new believers receive discipleship and get involved with their local churches.
Praise Jesus!! We are excited for our students to return back to their districts and train up more evangelists!
New Year, New Vision
Can you believe that we have been on the mission field for 8 years already! It is amazing to see where the Lord has brought us and the vision that He continues to place in our hearts for the advancement of His kingdom.
In the early weeks of 2021 during a time of fasting the Lord began to birth a new venture in our family. Through an encounter with Holy Spirit, Eric was led to join CfaN for a 4 month training school for large scale crusade evangelism. This was not a new desire placed in his heart, but one that he had carried since he was a young boy, spending hours watching evangelists like Reinhard Bonnke and Benny Hinn on TV.
Eric’s time with CfaN has given us the much needed first steps to making some of our ministry dreams a reality. After years in Mozambique teaching and training local leaders within Iris Globals’ churches, God has expanded our vision to reach beyond. Not just the churches, but also to other nations. God is asking for us to GO and PREACH to ALL. So that everyone will hear the good news and encounter the transformative power of the gospel.
He is not asking us to go in the sense of moving from where we are, but He is expanding our territory, and expanding our ministry. He has shown us over the years that His hand is on the faithful and steady. We will continue to serve where we are, leading Iris Globals’ Central Mozambique missions base until He says otherwise.
Our life is a simple yes in the hands of a savior. Where he calls, where He asks, where leads us is a “YES”.
We will have many updates in the months to come of where, and what the Lord is leading us into. We are excited to be used by Him in such a time as this. We believe that we are about to see a releasing of His Holy Spirit like never before and we are believing that we will be an active part in a harvest of souls like never seen before.
With an expansion of vision comes natural growth, we have seen our ministry Weaver Family Missions, go from a name that people know to a ministry that people have faithfully followed, sown into and upheld through prayer, finances and love. The Lord has graciously led us into a new season that has grown beyond what we could have imagined. To help sustain where we are being led Weaver Family Missions is excited to announce that we have officially become a Non Profit Organization with the state of Oregon. We are waiting for final documents providing 501(c)3 Status.
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“Weaver Family Missions is becoming As You Go Global Ministries”
And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. Matthew 10: 7-8
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We are excited to ring in the New Year, with a New Name, and Fresh Vision. Keep up to date with us through social media and e-mails! There is so much more to come!!
We cannot express how much you have helped us grow into As You Go Global Ministries.
Because of your continual support and partnership we are expanding.
Thank you for being a part of our ministry.
How Jesus Set a Captive Free
Several years ago Ancha awoke in the night to her husband standing over her with a machete. Her husband had gone to a local witch doctor for “guidance”. The witch doctor prescribed that he must murder his wife in order for him to gain the desires that he was looking for. As Ancha awoke to him standing above her with the machete she lifted her arm in self defense and it was severed off. Ancha has since lived with her young child alone and has managed to find various ways to sustain her family as a single mother living in Africa this can be quite hard. Thankfully Ancha has a brilliant mind and determination.
Recently I taught an inner healing and deliverance seminar in which Ancha attended. In Isaiah 61 we are shown that Christ came to preach good tidings to the poor, heal the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, open prisons doors for those who are bound and proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Christ spoke of the fulfillment of this in Luke 4. We are to do the same through the power of Christs’ crucifixion on the cross. This was a 2 day intensive, each day having teachings from 9 am to 5 pm. Attendees where given biblical truths about the battle against powers and principalities, how the enemy can influence our spirit, souls, and body, and our authority as redeemed sons and daughters. Freedom comes to bound people by the power of the blood of Jesus. The bible says that truth sets us free, in order for this to happen we have to know the truth. We are called to tear down every strong hold and take captive every lofty thought. Many believers walk in bondage to strongholds caused by life’s experiences and deceptions, but in Isaiah 53 it says that the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are healed. Healed both physically and mentally, externally and internally. Thank You Jesus!
At the end of first day of the seminar Ancha boldly spoke about her encounter with her husband and how it has affected her in the years since. She shared about how she is in a constant state of fear, not only for her self but for the life of her child. She shared how her fears are many times irrational and gripping. as a normal routine, she will enter into her home at night and lock her door, search under and behind everything making sure no one is there. At night she will hardly sleep because she is afraid to close her eyes, she will search the house several times even after she has already locked the door. Keep in mind the homes that people live in are very small, typically 4×3 meters so it is very difficult for someone to hide or enter unnoticed. When she awakes in the morning she searches again. She was crippled by fear. This fear caused her to have nightmares, and trust issues. Ancha began to see that this fear was something that was keeping her bound giving her and anxious mind and she didn’t want that anymore.
As her and I entered into a time of one on one ministry, she began to open up even more about how fear keeps her from being honest, for many years she has been walking bound under a lying spirit because she was afraid that she would not be accepted or she would be ridiculed so she said what she thought people wanted to hear and her lying became a normal part of her every day speech. She lied more than she spoke the truth. Many times after she would wonder why she had to lie about even the smallest thing. She couldn’t help it, it just came natural to her.
We were able to bring truth from the word of God to Ancha’s situation. Ancha repented and asked forgiveness for lying. We prayed for her to be set free from a spirit of fear and a lying spirit.
That night she went home, she was so bold and desired so greatly to be loosed from the bondage she was trapped in that she confessed to those whom she regularly lied to that she had been lying to them.
The next day at the seminar, before I could even address the class she wanted to come up and give a testimony.
Ancha spoke about how she had confessed to her mother about her lying and her mom confessed the same to Ancha, they had both been lying and were able to ask one another for forgiveness. When Ancha went to bed that night she locked the door and sat on her bed while her child was playing in the same room. The next thing Anch woke up to was the sound of the morning bustle coming from out side!
She had fallen asleep and woke to a blanket dropped over her, she didn’t check under or behind anything, she didn’t wake at all throughout the night, she had no nightmares. Her child tucked her in unknowingly.
Ancha slept through the night and awoke completely SET FREE.
Isn’t God amazing!! His desire is that we would be whole and healed. In fact He died on the cross for it and it is ours for the taking.
If this testimony has touched you or you have questions on how you can walk in your God given freedom paid for on the cross please contact us, we want to hear from you.
A Whole Village Was Saved
We had an amazing experience while we were on village out reach today. Village out reach consists of driving out in the rural communities and looking for a location to minister that has enough people to minister to or that you feel God has led you to.
At one of the locations we stopped at today it seemed to be more of a God prompting because there really wasn’t too many people around. We asked permission to minister in the neighborhood. The leader of the area granted our permission and to our surprise sent out a town crier! I didn’t even know town criers still existed. With the help of the town crier, we were soon up and running with over 100 people dancing and attentive to hear the word.
When the message of the gospel was proclaimed, literally, the entire village surrendered their lives to Jesus! Hallelujah! The word of God brought life and produced faith. With the expectancy and faith that was birthed by the word, we then prayed for the sick. Immediately, as people tested their bodies after the prayer of faith, we could all see that many had been healed.
As we began to take testimonies, what captivated my attention was that person after person gave testimony of being set free from pain and sickness that had been in the body for years. Pain in backs, and legs, and entire body pains that had remained for five years, 10 years, 20 years, were dismantled and cast out in the matter of moments in the power of the name of Jesus. I believe that the work that the Lord accomplished in this small village in one hour will have eternal significance for each that came and received!