Michael & Sherri Carlson
Growing God's Kingdom in Italy one church at a time!
Church Planting Movement
Every Italian town needs a church ministry and every Italian region needs church multiplication, but such a vast vision requires a church planting movement of thousands of ordinary, mobilized, envisioned believers each striving to get in step with God's plan of multiplying His church.
When you see thousands of Italian believers moving along with the leading of the Lord to start thousands of self-reproducing churches, you'll be seeing the fruit of a grand vision - a church planting movement in Italy! And if you want to change a nation, it takes a movement.
Only the Spirit can launch a movement, but we can certainly be involved in preparing the soil. We want to do everything possible to be ready for His moving! And we know that God is at work in other people's hearts as we've already found Italians who are responding to the same call from the Lord.
We've assisted Manuele and Tanya (not their real names) and several other church planters with training resources, internet resources (www.MissionePerTe.it), equipping seminars and evangelistic English Camps.
In 2008 a new church was born in the unreached city of Alatri. The church planter, who dreams of starting two more churches in nearby towns, wrote to us to say, "One day while surfing between various sites on the net, I ran into "Mission For You". I was shocked to the core to discover the situation of the churches in Italy. I downloaded some material, I adapted it to my needs and now? Now in Alatri (30,000 inhabitants) there is a protestant church! Thank you for your wonderful ministry. God bless you! Luciano"
The feedback has been very encouraging, but we'll only know it's a movement when we see the vision communicated, ingrown churches refocused, lay church planters mentored, resources developed, prayer initiatives launched, and churches started all over Italy!
Michael & Sherri's Ministry Overview:
- Church Ministry:
To change a life! - Church Multiplication:
To change a region! - Church Planting Movement:
To change a nation!
Italian Church Planters
This couple asked us to assist them in starting a church in their hometown. We've supplied them with church planting literature and two evangelistic English Camps which created about 60 new contacts!