Ministry - Annual Report for
2008
Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, Inc.
Name: BILL AND SUE SPOELHOF Field:Give a one or two sentence summary of your ministry assignment.
We are involved
in a church
planting ministry in the city of
1. People we have seen come to have a
personal
relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and helping them with
spiritual growth
in their lives; baptizing twenty-five new believers.
2. Merger of
the two ABWE
church plants.
3. Getting to
know new
families/individuals within the church.
4. Gifts that
continue to
come in for the church building program.
What difficulties did you encounter in the ministry during the past year?
1. Fund raising to purchase a building
for the
church.
2. Merger of the two ABWE church plants.
3. Commitment of our people to be
faithful and
motivation for them to invite others out to services
List at least 5 key
short range ministry goals for the past year and rate your progress for
each
(A=accomplished, S=some progress, N=no progress, D=dropped). Comment
about
factors that contributed to progress for each goal, or identify reasons
why no
progress was made or the goal was dropped.
1. Continue to
raise funds
for buying a building. = S
Comments: There have been fund raising campaigns
in the
church here as well as gifts given by individuals and churches in the
states.
We have just over R$100,000 (US$50,000) of our goal, but there are
concerns
because of the volatile world economy. We continue to be dependent on
God to
supply what we need in His time.
2. Continue to
search for
someone to lead the teen program. = N
Comments: We have good rapport with the teens in
our youth
group, but we will continue to look for someone younger to lead the
program.
3. Continue to
give more
emphasis to evangelism and establishing presence in the community. = S
Comments: A new evangelistic outreach has begun in
the
neighborhoods around the new church building.
4. Initiate a
new
visitation program. = S
Comments: We are making personal visits and are
inviting
people in to our home for meals to get to know folks who are new to us
or to
the church family.
List four or five
short range goals for the coming year:
1.
Continue to raise funds for buying a building/land.
2. Continue to
search for
someone to lead the teen program. Begin using Word of Life materials in
Portuguese for teens.
3. Continue to
work at
finding balance in ministries with the new church coming from the
merger.
4. Complete the
legalization and registration of new church.
5. Organize the
church
Discipleship programs at all levels, and train Brazilians to take over
programs.
Signature: Bill & Sue Spoelhof Date: December 30, 2008
Website: http://spoelhof.dutchgirl.net/