First: Operation Reach And Rescue 2009!
The Mission
Operation Reach And Rescue, 2009 is a saturated Holistic Evangelistic Project organized by the Calvary Message Crusaders Inc. in partnership with Christians from other denominations in and around targeted areas to give opportunity to the inhabitants of the rural dwellers to hear the clear cultural relevant presentation of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. It is designed to meet the Spiritual and the Physical needs of the rural dwellers.
Targeted Areas:
(a)
32 villages among the Isoko ethnic group in Delta State of Nigeria shall be invaded with the gospel.
Estimated Population (1,844,017)
A large percentage of these hinterland and riverine dwellers are held in bondage by mermaid spirit worship, Idolatry/Ancestral deity worship, traditional worship, witchcraft, occult/magic acts practices with very strong resistance to the gospel.
(b) High Schools, Motor Parks, Ghettoes, Market Places and Street Corners.
Goals of Operation
Expose 850,000 to the claims of Christ.
Prayerfully see 350,000 pray to receive Christ.
Prayerfully work towards planting New Life Fellowship Centers in villages where there are no churches to disciple converts.
How
Working in partnership with Christians from all denominations (bible based) in and around these targeted areas:
- We plan to recruit one thousand two hundred Christians (One hundred every month), train them in basic evangelism and follow-up strategies, equip them with evangecubes, the four spiritual laws, Holy Spirit booklets and follow-up 1-6 booklets and deploy them to share the gospel person to person and door to door with 6 people each day for ten days every month of the year.
- We plan to use two sets of film projectors daily for public viewing ten days in each month.
- We plan to encourage those who benefited from the training and gift of evangecubes to reach five people every week with the cubes.
- We plan to target the ghettos for our street corner weekly evangelism.
- We plan to work with ministries in the town using the Jesus film
- We plan to use four bails of used and new clothes in four of the less privilege settlements among these people group.
- We plan to attend to1,500 patients in our medical outreaches to the most disease ravaged rural settlements among these people group, and give health talks.
- We plan to deploy ten evangelists to motor parks and commercial buses to preach the gospel.
- We plan to organize HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns in most villages visited.
- We plan to train and grant micro-credit loans to 100 women and youth in our skill acquisition and Micro-Credit program.
- We plan to sink 3 mono-pump water boreholes in three settlements.
- We intend to dig 6 pit toilets.
- We plan to follow-up converts through individual and group follow-up. These will be co-coordinated by the leadership of participating local churches for integration of new Christians/converts into active church membership.