The Need for Training
Did you know that research shows only 5% of the world’s roughly 3 million pastoral leaders are trained for ministry and have access to the resources they need to grow?*
Amazing Reports from Cambodia, Poland, & Nigeria
Our Foundations Trainers have been hard at work in active ministry around the globe, and it’s also a joy to see an Ambassador beginning implementing what our Trainers have taught him in Nigeria!
Hear their stories, and join us in prayer.
Reflecting After Zanzibar – Follow Up with Mobilize
Last month, our Mobilize Medical team ventured to Zanzibar, Tanzania to serve. Thank you for being a part of sending them through your prayers and gifts!
Mark you calendar & change the world
Jesus taught us to go, to make disciples of all nations and to restore what was broken by sin between God and man. Jesus modeled disciple-making by walking with, teaching, and sending out His own disciples. We want to be like Jesus and change the world!
New Hope for Tanzania
Come along on a short but amazing journey with us and read about how God moved – and continues to move – in a community in Tanzania! Join us in eradicating the cycle of injustices surrounding the beautiful community of Ketumbeine, Tanzania. Introducing: New Hope, Tanzania.
Intercede: Zanzibar Mobilize trip & Poland leaders
Join us in praying for the upcoming Mobilize Medical trip to Zanzibar and the ministry to leaders in Poland.
The Good News for Tanzania & Nigeria
Developing Workers exists to mobilize ministry for discipleship – both locally and globally. This month, we’ve sent teams to actively serve abroad with Mobilize Medical and Foundations Training. Hear more about the impact Mobilize had in Tanzania, and pray with us for the Foundations Training in Nigeria. Pray as Nigeria is Engaged for Discipleship Trainers Matt Swartz and Greg Jones are on the field in Nigeria, ready to train pastors in the Foundations discipleship workshops from January 23-27. During their time there, our team will have 2 days with the leaders who DW trained last year, working through the Story of God workshop with them, also coaching them in their faith and development as leaders. Additionally, our trainers will be working through the first 3 Foundations workshops with a new group of pastors. Pray with us for great fruit from this time – that ministry leaders would walk away encouraged and empowered for discipleship; that our team would be strengthened and effective for their days of ministry in training sessions and ministry with national leadership. Returning from Tanzania Thank you for praying for our team headed to Tanzania! God has done great things. As the team traveled overseas, we sought your prayers for a safe arrival to where the team needed to be in the midst of many potential flight delays and complications. Praise the Lord – the team all arrived with every piece of luggage they set out with! The results are astounding: of the 723 patients this short-term team saw and met with, 165 came to faith in Jesus as their Savior! Dozens were treated for pneumonia, and some were treated for malnutrition. Through the Community Safety Initiative, 17 Tanzanians who were identified as at-risk for abuse or trafficking are now able to connect with a trained local HERO that will walk closely with them. While the days of medical clinics are complete, our Mobilize team is still on-the-ground, continuing their connections with our ministry partners there and preparing to leave. Pray for their last couple days in nation and for a safe departure and arrival home. Thank you for joining us in prayer! Mobilize Medical is the medical outreach component of Developing Workers. We partner with churches around the world providing much needed medical care in impoverished areas. As we host medical clinics, we are drawing in the community so the church can connect with people in the area and share the gospel. Read more about opportunities with upcoming trips or donate to Mobilize Medical today!
Celebrating and Preparing
Happy New Year to you and yours! Developing Workers is off to a full-speed start this year with ready hearts and hands. Thanks to the continued faithful giving of our community of supporters, we will continue the work of discipleship locally and globally in 2023. Celebrate with us: through our matching gift and your generous donations, we raised over $100,000 at year-end! Off to Africa This week, our Mobilize team of staff and volunteers heads to Tanzania. They will offer 5 days of medical clinic to the underserved people in the area and connect them to their local church. Each day spent serving, our Mobilize Medical team will travel out to a community in the area, partnering with the local church leaders. The medical clinics they lead provide medical exams, nutritional assessments, de-worming, vitamins, dental hygiene instruction, medicine, and community safety (CSI) evaluations. Every patient is led through spiritual counseling and has the opportunity to be connected with the local church for follow up and discipleship. Through the tool of medicine, many will be blessed and impacted by sowing seeds of the Gospel! Pray with us! Thank you for joining us in prayer! Mobilize Medical is the medical outreach component of Developing Workers. We partner with churches around the world providing much needed medical care in impoverished areas. As we host medical clinics, we are drawing in the community so the church can connect with people in the area and share the gospel. Read more about opportunities with upcoming trips or donate to Mobilize Medical today!
Building the Church
The vast majority of Developing Workers’ ministry is focused on building up the Church – the people of God here and around the world that make up the Body of Christ so they might serve as a light in the nations they live. However, today, we have the privilege to share how a volunteer with DW caught a vision for building up the Church by helping Tanzanian brothers and sisters fashion an actual church building. Praise God with us! The Church: Meeting Many Needs While serving as a volunteer on Developing Workers Mobilize Medical trips, Dave Jackson met Pastor Peter Olosotu. Dave explains, “Pastor Peter is devoted to God and the people in Northern rural Tanzania. He preaches to several churches with almost nothing. They meet under trees or out in the open.” Dave shared with us that even though his background is not in the medical field, he has become a seasoned volunteer of half-a-dozen trips who loves serving alongside our team and ministry partners in underserved parts of the world. It was after a recent trip to Tanzania that Dave’s burden to take action outside of the short-term trips he knew well began to grow. Hear his thoughts: “During my trip to Tanzania, I had made a decision to help out in some way when I left. I just wasn’t sure how that would look… I did reach out to Peter, and he told me of the need in two villages that had no buildings for worship. So, we figured out what was needed in cost, and I asked for support. That support came from a number of people in my class at Grace Community Church (Tempe, Arizona). These ‘church buildings’ are not exactly a long term permanent structure. They are built in a manner that the local people (Maasai) understand very well – Out of sticks and mud. This kind of structure fills a number of needs: It is a place that is out of the weather and people can learn and worship God. It is something that can be used NOW, versus waiting for all of the parts and pieces for a masonry permanent structure. It is a very familiar type of building that a new Christian or a local person that wants to know more about God may not be intimidated with a foreign building type. It is very fast to build [and] can be done in weeks versus a permanent building which may take months or longer to complete. It is very cheap to build and very cheap to repair.” Isn’t it beautiful to see the faithfulness of God’s people bring about good fruit?! Dave answered the call to join a Developing Workers medical trip years ago, and the fruit of that obedient response has continued to multiply. Now the people in the villages of these rural Tanzanian villages will have the blessing of clear and sheltered place to meet for worship. Whether you go or send, you can transform the lives of people around the world. Developing Workers Mobilize teams go all over the globe, training church leaders and offering medical care to the places where help is needed most. Join us! Or support a volunteer financially today.