Panta Ta Ethne: Making Disciples of All Nations Stories


Panta Ta Ethne: Making Disciples of All Nations Stories
Panta Te Ethne

Asian American Ministries: Fresh. Relevant. Organic.

The Fresh, Relevant, Organic Witnessing conference was a weekend of inquiry. This conference drew 40 individuals and couples together in Santa Cruz to share and challenge one another to be an effective witness of Jesus to the communities God has put us in. Dr, John Ridgway was our speaker and blessed us with his stories and experiences. We all etched out our family trees and prayed for the those who are still finding the Way, Truth, and Life. We also broke out into small groups to discover how we could be used by GOD in new ways in 2009. For a summary of what was said, please email Tom Steers for a copy of "What is the GOOD NEWS for 2009?"

A Native American Vision for Discipleship

Navigators staff Tom Johnson, Alvin Logan and Hal Jensen drove four young Native men to the Key Men's Conference in Wichita Falls, Texas. These young men are actively being discipled by Tom and Alvin. This was a life changing event for some of these young men. Seeing 500 men together learning how to be a disciple of Christ, then take it to the next level of becoming a reproducing disciplemaker, reinforced concepts these young men have already been learning. The focus for the Navigator American Indian Discipleship team this year is equipping: to equip the team and those they minister closely with in raising up disciples. The Navigators Key Men's conference provided the perfect opportunity to immerse themselves in three days of discipleship training and to grow a vision for making disciples among their own Native people.

African American Network: Making Disciples Right Where You Are

"We'd like to start a congress track for business and professional people" said two of the 350 who attended the 2009 Maryland Congress on Discipleship. These businessmen may not have realized that their idea is precisely what we were praying would happen at this year's event in March. We wanted our program and testimonies to major on one point: you don't have to go somewhere to make disciples. Potential disciples are next door to everyone.