GREENSide Update
  • reflecting a bit
    • Easter 2019: Four ‘D’ Words of The Passion Week
    • Spring 2019: ‘Kingdom of God’ Reflections a Week After
    • Early Winter 2018: Taking a Closer Look at The Advents
    • Late summer 2018: Impressions from the Incapacitated
    • Summer 2018... Confronting Fears
    • Happy New Year 2018 Wishes
    • Christmas 2017 - Reconstructing the Christmas Story
    • Fall 2017... Returning, Rest, Quietness & Trust
    • Summer 2017... Reflecting Pools Matter
    • Spring 2017... The Singularity of God's Kingdom Purposes
    • Winter 4th qtr. 2016... One Foot, Two Feet, Three
    • Fall 2016... Personal Confessions of Mistaken Political Thinking
    • Summer, 2016... Waiting and Listening
    • Resurrection Sunday, 2016
    • Winter 1st qtr, 2016... The Marrakesh Declaration
    • Christmas 2015 Greeting
    • End of Year, 2015... Are We To Care?
    • Spring 2015... What are you and I doing about it?
    • New Year's Day 2015... New Mercies Never End!
    • Christmas/New Year 2014/15... Holiday, Holiday, What have you done?
    • Fall 2014... On Kingdoms... Past, Present and Ethereal
    • Spring 2014... Didascalicon: Man, God and Greatness
    • Christmas 2013... Even in the Air and Space
    • Winter 2013/14... Callings
    • Christmas 2012... 'Jumping Beans' in old age
    • Spring 2012... New Beginnings
    • Fall 2011... People of Promise
  • a look behind
    • Spring 2019: ...Off the Starting Blocks
    • Early Winter 2018: Sabbatical Results and First Furlough Leg
    • Summer 2018... "Come and See"
    • Summer 2017... Making Full Circle
    • Spring 2017... Completing Pre-furlough Commitments
    • Fall 2016, JJ's New California Home!
    • Summer 2016... Accomplishing Significant Milestones
    • End of year, 2015: Building God's Kingdom Among the Middle East Unengaged Muslims
    • Summer 2015... Building Deeply in Small Ways
    • Christmas 2013 photos
    • Winter 2013/14... Up and Running!
    • Winter 2012... 'Global Impact 29', first steps
    • Fall 2011... A great school; A promising alliance
  • a look ahead
    • Spring 2019: Finishing Touches to a Special Furlough
    • Early Winter 2018: Expanding to New Beginnings
    • Summer 2018... Winding Around the Country
    • Summer 2017... Three Decades and Counting
    • Spring 2017... My Upcoming Two Greatest Decades
    • Winter 4th qtr. 2016... Our Upcoming Furlough, Part Two
    • Summer 2016... Our Upcoming Furlough, Part One
    • Early Winter 2016
    • Summer 2015... Looking to Remember the Middle East
    • Winter 2013/14... The West heads East
    • Winter 2012... Coming out, going deeper
    • Fall 2011... Getting and Giving 'Perspectives'
  • prayer
    • Spring 2019
    • Early Winter 2018
    • Late summer 2018
    • Summer 2018
    • Fall 2017
    • Spring, 2017
    • Winter 4th qtr. 2016
    • Fall, 2016
    • End of year, 2015
    • Summer 2015
    • Why pray?
    • Winter 2013/14
    • Winter 2012
    • Fall 2011
  • finances
    • Spring 2019
    • Early Winter 2018
    • Summer 2018
    • Winter 4th qtr. 2016... Year-end giving
    • Fall, 2016
    • End of year, 2015
    • Summer 2015
    • Winter 2013/14
    • Winter 2012
    • Fall 2011
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  • fun
  • more contemplation
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Early Winter 2018
on... Expanding to New Beginnings
We are excited to share some of what is coming our way in the months ahead. While we cannot presume upon God and His plans for us, we have been struck in the last few years at the number of invitations we've received from around Central and South America, not discounting the interesting increase in invitation for ministry to Northeast Africa and the Middle East. Primarily hailing from churches, seminaries, institutes and aspiring missionaries we have now made the leap to trust the Lord to lead us in dependence upon Him to assume leadership for what is a multi-cultural international community comprised of pastors, denominations, leaders and students committed to Latin American cross-cultural engaging of Unengaged Unreached People Groups around the world, especially those of Muslim orientation. These new developments have brought us to conclude, with the help of our Accountability Council, that a new vehicle is needed for accomplishing the mission God gave us back in 1987. It is a community called PLAN panta ta Ethne (clic here to learn more).

PLAN panta ta Ethne has invitations from Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, Costa Rica and Cuba while we additionally pray for God’s will in answer to dialogues from Northeastern Africa and the Middle East for what are being called "Bridge Ministries,” i.e, one or more ministries which may aid in facilitating the arrival of Latin American cross-cultural workers to that part of the world, “bridging" them, so to speak, into nearby Unengaged Unreached Muslim contexts. 
As of this writing our outlook for 2019 looks like:
  1. Teaching non-paid adjunct courses in two seminaries, one in Colombia (Introduction to Islam) and the other in Costa Rica, each for 2-3 months, with the existing possibility of similar courses taught in seminaries in Uruguay and Cuba;
  2. Mentoring six individuals aspiring to serve God and His Kingdom purposes in an Islamic unreached context. They are currently developing loving friendships with Muslims as they engage them socially, culturally and theologically, doing all this where they presently reside, and in some cases doing so cross-culturally;
  3. Coaching three grass-roots denominations in Colombia, Mexico and Argentina with the hope of spawning church-based teams for engaging unreached Muslim peoples with short-term outreach as a precursor to long-term involvement. These are groups that show little desire for working with conventional western mission agencies (a trend by the way), but are open to counsel and coaching;
  4. Calling the Church of South, Central and North America to the task of engaging every last Unengaged Unreached People Group in the world with the goal of making disciples able to make disciples (DMMs) as churches are planted (CPMs). This is the goal of the international multi-cultural community called PLAN panta ta Ethne (clic here to learn more), even now gaining significant traction;
  5. Considering prayerfully our part in “Bridge Ministries” as an important step for our coaching, training and mobilizing of Latin Americans into Unengaged Unreached Muslim contexts. We see this strategic ministry not only as opening doors for Latin American workers, but also as aiding us to better train and coach Latin Americans for their future long-term work abroad, helping us learn to engage Islam by acquainting us with indigenous Disciple-Making Movements and Muslim outreach, all through the auspices of international church-related ministries. This probably will not take place until 2020 if at all;
  6. Raise financial and prayer support in order to accomplish these outcomes (clic here to learn more about our current financial outlook).
Some are reminding us to be careful not to bite off too much as we begin our sixth decade of life; suffice to say we wish to work heartedly as unto the Lord with all the strength we have until the very end. Others speak of retirement, but we have no intentions of this. These objectives are very much in line with our lifetime call and we count it all joy to give the Lord our best.

Finally, our present plan is to arrive back to the California southland early December and stay through the holidays. There we will commence the second leg of our furlough - Partnership Development. We already have a number of speaking engagements and sharing opportunities so we are expectant. Of course we look forward to enjoying the holidays with family and friends. Stay tuned...

Clic the Partner With Us button below to make Personal and/or Project contributions.
AOS is our financial provider; rest assured if you see 
PLAN panta ta Ethne (All Nations) at the top of the page you are at the correct donation page for the Green's ministry.
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