New Life Network USA Vision for 2025

Ben learned a lot during 2024. There are a lot of challenges facing our hispanic brothers and sisters. It has been a joy for Ben to serve them and learn from them. New life network focuses on forming and reproducing discipeles, forming leaders and planting churches. Here are some things we saw God do in 2024:

• Started a monthly prayer time with our pastors.
• Started monthly coaching with each pastor.
• Started an annual retreat with the pastors and wives. (See pic above)
• 4 new churches or churches in process of being planted, entered the network. (6 churches in total now) (See pic at bottom which shows one new church signing)
• 2 new discipleship groups started. (See pic below of one of them)

The vision for 2025 is to continue seeing growth and implementation of our processes in the churches we have, grow in prayer, build a team to help lead the efforts. In addition this is what we are praying the Lord will do in 2025:

• See our churches grow from 6 to 10 in total.
• See our discipleship groups grow from 3 to 15, with 75 total people in our discipleship route.
• Have 10 leaders formed through our leadership training.
• Plant one new church.

Thanks for praying and supporting us which allows us to do this work of serving the Hispanic Church in the USA. 

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 28:19-20

Multiplying Disciples and Churches

 

Matthew 28:19-20 says this, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

This is what we know as the Great Commission. This is our calling and work as followers of Jesus. We do not need a missionary call or ministry call to be obedient to this great commission. It is for all believers in all places. One of the things that I have loved about being a part of Red Nueva Vida is the singular focus we have on making disciples. 

They have developed what we call the Discipleship Route in which we help lead people not just towards becoming disciples but disciple makers. It is a 2 year long discipleship process. At the end everyone decides not if but where they are called to make disciples. Most are called to make disciples within their local church context, some are called to plant churches maybe in their same context or similar context, and yet others are called to be missionaries and make disciples in a cross-cultural context.  None of these are more important than the other. But I love that the discipleship route leads everyone towards reproduction.

A few weeks ago I had the privilege to "commission" our first group of disciple makers. I have wept, celebrated, learned, grown, confessed and done life with these guys for the past two years. They are family.  From this group will come about 5 more discipleship groups and hopefully 2-3 churches that are in process or Lord-willing will be planted in the next few years.

Thanks for supporting us as we make disciples! You are a part of this!