WEA Family Challenge New Update September 2024

Dear Friends, God's plan to fill the earth with godly generations was given to the first family in Genesis 1:28. However, their disobedience led to a world filled with ungodliness, causing God to regret creating humankind and deciding to destroy them (Genesis 6:3-7). Yet one man,Noah, whose faithfulness and righteousness changed the course of human history, was chosen by God to continue His plan (Genesis 6:9). Despite living in a world of darkness and sin, Noah remained faithful. None of his contemporaries, likely including his own relatives, qualified to enter the ark and be saved. Noah’s faithfulness can be traced back to his grandfather, Enoch, who "walked faithfully with God" (Genesis 5:24). Enoch lived a notably shorter life than his ancestors, only 365 years, yet his legacy of faith deeply influenced Noah. Enoch's son, Methuselah, lived 969 years, and his own son, Lamech, lived 777 years (Genesis 5:31). The story of Enoch and his godliness would have had a profound impact on Noah. Stories of godly and righteous people live longer and make great impact than the physical life of unrighteous men and women. Though Enoch lived the shortest in the list of his ancestors, his story inspired his grandson which I believe saved the world from total annihilation. The WEA Family Challenge aims to inspire godly generations through the influence of parents and grandparents in every church and community, establishing God's Kingdom of righteousness and truth. As Jesus shared about his coming, he talked about us facing similar time like that of Noah's, with self-centered living becoming prevalent. (Matthew 24: 37-39). Hence the focus of the WEA Family Challenge is to secure our generation’s salvation through discipleship in every home. Let’s unite in preparing generations for Christ, so we can stand before our Lord and King when He returns. Battling for families, PC Mathew Global Director – WEA family challenge News Update: Family Discipleship Training update: Under the Latin Evangelical Alliance, the first phase of training completed by Pastor Matthew Ling with 19 sessions covered. The Phase 2 training for the next 15 month will commence in the month of Sept 2024. Bro. Daniel Cuaqira is the contact person for these trainings and is serving alongside of Pastor Matthew Ling to make these training a reality in the Spanish world. Training of Master Trainers in Family Discipleship of LEA : Master Trainers are trained online involving 8 discipleship groups of 4 Churches. We pray that these master trainers will equip many churches to catch the vision of family discipleship and also equip the leaders. Missional families: An urgent need to save generations : Lausanne movement – Children and family wing , in partnership with WEA- family challenge and Children’s network organized a 7 week webinar based on the book “Becoming a Missional family” by Dr. P C Mathew. It was well attended by more than 100 families consistently from all across the globe. The Resource couples were from India, Cambodia,Malaysia and the US. This was conducted between June 20th to Aug 1st.2024. It was helpful for every family to re-examine as to why they exist as a family which enabled them to write a family mission statement. Upcoming Conference:South Asia Family Discipleship Conference ( Nov 4-6) A vision casting for pastors and leaders on family discipleship is planned in Bangalore from 4th-6thNov, 2024. Pastors and leaders from India, Nepal , Sri- Lanka will deliberate on issues affecting Asian families and also identify resources and strategies to combat the forces that are threatening families. Any organization that would like to give your resources for this training can contact pcmathew@worldea.orgThis conference is organized by Urban India Ministries and Alpha India on behalf of WEA – Family Challenge Family ministry highlight of this quarter:Urban India Ministries, Bangalore, India Urban India Ministries (UIM) was birthed through a wakeup call given to few friends as a response to the breakdown of Urban families in India in the year 1998. Celebrating its 25th year last year in 2023, UIM has grown as the largest family ministry in Asia. With focus on all life stages from Children to grandparents, UIM has produced culturally relevant biblically sound material to address the issues facing families in India and other Asian countries. They also have a nationwide helpline for families operating in 6 Indian languages. (homeshanti.org). Their wide range of ministry can be understood through their website www.urbanindia.org They are also pioneers in starting an Academia in family ministry offering a Masters in Family Life education and Masters in Marriage and family Counseling. They have many other programs to equip the church with tools to help families. These courses have raised many family life champions who are battling for families in various nations in Asia and middle east. Visit www.uimfrti.org website to know their programs. Asia’s first Family Education andResearch Centre at Bangalore: Urban India Ministries is pioneering a state of art family life education research center with digital classrooms,library and auditorium at the cost of 650 thousand US Dollars. This center will train family champions in all of Asia with a Masters and certificate level program with university accreditation. Work has started and is expecting completion by Aug 2025. A need of 400 thousand USD remains. 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