The World is OUR Parish

My spiritual heritage was Methodist until I was baptized a Baptist at the age of nineteen. After conversion, baptism and obedience to a call to missions, evangelism and pastoring I discovered the unique life of John Wesley, the fifteenth child of the nineteen children of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, an Anglican preacher and godly wife and mother. John writes in his journal on March 4, 1738 that he looked upon the world as his parish and that he was under obligation to preach Christ and that he had no parish nor probably ever would. On May 24, 1738 at 8:45 PM at a meeting on Aldersgate Street in London he wrote of his heart being "strangely warmed." Few men since the days of Paul the Apostle have affected mankind more positively toward Christ that Wesley.

In this present hour more than 6.5 billion people are alive in 247 sovereign nations and territories of the world. The great commission to evangelize the world was stated by Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Acts. With better means of communication than ever before we still have approximately 1.7 billion people who are waiting to hear the "good news."

Jesus calls us to follow him as a faithful witness in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth (Acts 1:8). If we are not a missionary--we are a mission field. If we are not fishing for men--we are not following the master fisherman.

LOVEM Ministries, Inc. is seeking to identifiy and associate with Christians and non-Christians in all countries/territories. In recent weeks we have established contacts with friends from Ghana, Kenya, India and Pakistan. WOULD YOU HELP US to locate persons in the USA and internationally who would partner with us in intercessory prayer, spiritual awakening in their country, Christian training, evangelism and church planting?

We can do more TOGETHER than we can independently. One is better than none. Two is better than one and a three-fold cord is not easily broken. Leave us a comment if you can direct us to someone you know from another country. We will make an effort to establish contact. Jesus said that "his father's house was a house of prayer for all nations." One of our young ministers in LOVEM is developing an intercessory prayer ministry for the political leaders of the world. Alfred Tennyson was right when he said "More things are wrought by prayer than this world ever dreamed of." Let us pray!

"Call unto me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things that you know not" (Jeremiah 33:3).