Looking Beyond 2009
Posted on | November 16, 2009 | No Comments
Next Level International (NLI) has been built upon a solid foundation of partnership. In the past eighteen years we have seen over 7000 leaders trained, over 130 churches planted directly and hundreds more indirectly, and thousands of individuals mobilized into frontline evangelism. Europe is an ever-changing landscape, particularly evident in this last decade. We have seen the European Economic Community (EEC) continue to stretch its borders as they include more post communist nations. The often volatile Balkan region is now being welcomed into the EEC family and the first Muslim nation is being considered for candidacy.
What this all means is that at NLI we need to change and challenge our thinking and actions as well. In a post-Christian Europe where many countries number the evangelical witness at less than 1% there is much more to be done. We know that the post-communist hunger that existed for many years is waning but continue to see the deep spiritual need for the power of the Gospel. We are called to see the creation of movements. Addition will not get the job done it will take exponential multiplication.
With this in mind and a strong desire to build on the past, NLI has developed a regional focus and is currently training leaders in 5 of the 6 regions of Europe. As well there are church planting and short term mission initiatives in 4 of the 6 regions. Our aim is to expand our ministry initiatives in every region over the next two years while adapting our training/projects/teams more specifically to each culture. We see this enabling us to move closer to the goal of a ministry relationship in every nation of Europe by 2020. The nations being targeted for new ministry initiation are France, Italy, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Hungary and Albania.
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