17 Reasons Team Expansion is Celebrating 2017

by Carla Williams

Another year has finished, and we are finding ourselves feeling reflective and grateful.

Another year has finished, and we are finding ourselves feeling reflective and grateful. There are many reasons to celebrate 2017, but we’ll constrain ourselves to just 17.

1. SO MANY BAPTISMS! Official numbers are still trickling in, but suffice to say, we blew our goal of 2,100 baptisms out of the water.
2. More workers were trained to go into the world, including our largest “Launch” to date.
3. We began the process of creating international sending bases to equip and sustain more workers.
4. Hundreds of daily prayers rose up on behalf of the nations.
5. Through social media, outreach efforts, discipleship groups, prayer walks, English classes, medical events, refugee engagement and other methods – thousands of people heard the Gospel for the first time in their lives.
6. More churches began partnerships with Team Expansion to bring Light to the darkest parts of the world.
7. With the aid of a matching grant, we raised the funds and began construction on a lift in our home office at Emerald Hills.
8. Zúme! This discipleship course multiplied across the nation, and is well on its way to being translated into several more languages.
9. We identified and focused on the 30 largest cities in the world, garnering prayer and attention on some major unreached areas.
10. Our Pathways participants experienced grace, humility, and growth through their summer internships.
11. Some Quest apprentices finished their seasons of service, while others started a chapter of learning, observing, serving, and growing under the supervision of experienced missionaries.
12. Our annual Connect gathering in SE Asia brought together workers serving in many nations together for renewal, encouragement, and rest.
13. We saw the beginning steps for our hope of 24 4×4 DMMs by the end of 2024.
14. Trainings like Kairos, Jonathan Training, and Launch continued to reach and equip lay Christians to expand God’s Kingdom.
15. More churches and believers partnered with Team Expansion to support our ministry with finances, encouragement, advocacy, and prayer.
16. More Team Expansion workers in the early stages of their ministries worked studiously through exasperatingly slow language acquisition.
17. Unreached people around the world with no previous access to the Gospel were given opportunities to hear about God’s great love for them in their own language!