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Discipling Another to Love Jesus – at HIGH ALTITUDE!
February 2004 by Rick Ives Pastors Grant Edwards and I (Fellowship Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio) just returned from the Philippines where we led a Discipling Another to Love Jesus (DA2LJ) conference for 250 pastors, church leaders, and World Vision workers. This time we were really HIGH as our venue was Baguio City, a modern city of 250,000 located on the top of a mountain in the thin and cool air of the northern part of the Philippines.
As we find everywhere we go, almost none of the 250 in attendance, when asked if they really knew how to disciple a new believer to keep them from falling away, were able to say yes. This is the common tragedy of the church today in the world; we have lost the Great Commission even though it is the last will and testament of our Lord Jesus. After 2 ˝ days together, all conference participants can now not only successfully disciple new believers, they can also successfully launch an effective one on one discipleship ministry back in their home churches. We had participants from all over the Philippines so the impact of this training will be far reaching.
Once again we were protected as we traveled and at the conference by armed guards as terrorism continues to be a plague on the Philippines. Even though Baguio City is considered a “safe” area, a local political leader was assassinated just a day or so after we left the area. The Lord has been so gracious to us each time we go into these dangerous areas – He must really want to see His Great Commission brought back into churches all over the world! I am starting to feel normal having guards, soldiers, and automatic weapons around me all the time. Please pray for the Filipino pastors and leaders as they start to disciple new believers who will in turn disciple new believers.
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At
the conference we met a young Filipino woman named Laoni. Laoni
was trained several months ago by our DA2LJ National Director
in the Philippines, Pastor Fred Monasterio. Since that time, Laoni
has discipled 13 leaders in her church who are now in turn discipling
25 members. Talk about the multiplication factor – from 1 to 38
and growing! That’s the power of DA2LJ as it focuses not on discipling
people but rather on making disciplers who will go out and disciple
others to become disciplers. 
