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We are excited to see you all and get to know you better. Stop by our booth to learn more about women who live DANGEROUS lives every day. And, don't miss the 7 in 7 Presentation to learn more about Shama Women and how you can Share Life!
ShamaWomen is an initiative of the Cross Connecting Network that empowers women in South Asia through spiritual and vocational training. Christianity is less than 2% in the area served and women are extremely marginalized. Yet through ShamaWomen, over 1,000 women have been trained in sewing, cosmetology, computer and adult literacy—all in the name of Jesus . Learn more at at our SHAMA WOMEN web site.
The VisionAn entire nation transformed by the good news of the Kingdom of God…
The Cross Connecting Network works to cultivate faithful indigenous leaders working in areas that are often openly hostile to the Christian message. The opposition and oppression is often difficult, but the opportunities are beyond imagination,
We are committed to working with these leaders to do all we can to assist them in taking the Good News of the Kingdom into every possible area of their culture.
We do not pretend to have a strategy of our own, but merely try to follow Jesus, loving people, doing good works, and proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom of God. We invite you to join with us in any way you might choose. And, if you do, we promise that your will see God transform the lives of many...including yourself.
The VehicleThe Body of Christ
The Body of Christ, the Church, is a living organism with the sole responsibility to act on behalf of Jesus.
It is unique in it role in that even in it “humaness” it displays the manifold wisdom of God and His glory throughout all generations, to every nation, and even to the principalities and powers in the heavenlies.
In the darkest of places and most desperate situations, God sends out his people to be light and salt; seeking to share the love of God that they have experienced with others.
Today, the Church has an unprecedented opportunity to function both locally and globally and to share resources and celebrate together as participate as one body in God’s work.
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Ephesians 4:15,16
The StrategySimple – Proven – Biblical
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Step 1: Target Key Leaders
Our top priority is the development of a few leaders who are committed to knowing, doing, and teaching truth and capable of organizing and mobilizing others. We do not attempt to train hundreds and thousand. We are investing in “some” who can teach “many” so we can reach “all”
Step 2: Learn and Improve Through Models
God’s truth is consistent; our living conditions are not. We work out and improve our application of the truth through 3 different types of communities:
- The slum community
- The village community
- The upwardly mobile community
In addition, we recognize that we also live within cultural channels or segments that create their own. Each of these communities present different type of challenges and opportunities. By understanding these communities we can, we can help others living in similar conditions to increase the impact of the Kingdom of God in their particular area.
Step 3: Multiply by connecting and collaborating.
Together…by design, God’s work requires a multitude of diverse people working together for a single purpose. We seek to collaborate and empower as many as possible as we see and seek the Kingdom of God…together. And, we invite you to be a part.
2020 VisionWhat we are praying to accomplish by the end of 2020.
And, then?A global network focused and committed to the transformation of a nation…
We believe that God wants to transform lives of individuals, families, communities and even nations.
But, we work in a nation that is dry, dark, and difficult. We often do not understand the culture and lack the skills necessary to make much of a change.
We welcome and celebrate the smallest advances. These victories fuel the passion to continue on.
By faith, we know that God is able to make all grace abound to us, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, we may abound in every good work.
Ultimately our goal is for a nation to experience the fullness of the Kingdom of God. Our desire is to see thousands and thousands of communities of light and salt where millions of people will recognize Jesus for who is really is and follow him and to love others that very same love that they have received from Jesus.
We look to a day when every man, woman, and child has had multiple opportunities to hear, see and respond to the Good News of the Kingdom without having to go come anywhere.
And that day will come when The Church comes along the local churches and the local churches work with others to bring God’s glory to this nation.
When will this happen?
We don’t know?
But we know that we will continue to do the things God has called us to do and to share what God is doing and inviting others to share in the work.
Come join in!