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Omar Reyes is our Glocal Impact Director.  He oversees our Missions Department Directors for Community Development, Vietnam, Church Planting, and is, himself, the Director for our work in Mexico.  Bob has asked us all to give an update of what is happening in our areas and what God is teaching us.  Here is what Omar has to say:

Losing Our Center of Gravity

GO! And make disciples is the simple, clear and emphatic command given to
us from our Lord Jesus Christ. His last words to us in Matthew 28:29 is to
make disciples and His promise that He will be with us always even unto
the ends of the earth was conditional based upon our obedience to the this
specific task called “Making Disciples ”
“When dealing with discipleship and the related capacity to generate
authentic followers of Jesus, we are dealing with that single most crucial
factor that will in the end determine the quality of the whole, if we fail
at this point we fail in all others ”-Alan Hirsch, ‘The Forgotten Ways’.  If this is true then
Satan’s supreme effort is not to destroy the church but to pervert it’s
divine purpose, if he can very slowly shift our focus to other things,
good things then he will have gained the church. This subtle shift is very
insidious and hard to detect, but it is there in the middle of this
movement like a cancerous cell. We are now busy breaking missional codes,
dissecting this new wave of paradigm busting new thinking, moving into
this new externally focused missional approach, devising new methods of
church planting, rediscovering out Latin radix, liturgy, candles, jeans
t-shirts. We are changing and adapting at break neck speed trying to keep
up or be the first with the next new idea.  In the midst of this I believe
if we are not careful we will lose our center of gravity, making disciples
and find ourselves wandering behind some desert because we lost our way
again! Like the Israelites, just looping around and around and around and
never entering into the promise land. There are clear signs and proof when
you travel to the east that they are entering into the promise land. We
have seen the proof of a land flowing with milk and honey and the grapes
are massive. The Big question which should be driving this movement should
be “How do I become a true authentic followers of Christ” and then “How do
I multiply myself into a few” period!!