Jeff Adams

A few years ago I asked God to help facilitate the sending of 1,000 missionaries from Latin America to other languages and cultures. That was simply a number that popped into my head, and I had no clue how that was going to play out. I just wanted to leverage whatever influence God has given me in the Spanish-speaking world for the cause of God’s global mission. I have been amazed how many doors God has opened to me to be a small part of what He is doing around the world. I haven’t yet totally learned how to keep a reasonably accurate count of that, or even how to properly keep you informed about what God is doing and how we can better work together in that endeavor. I’m thinking this blog can help me communicate with you. I do know that God has allowed me to play a small role in the lives of some folks in Latin America who are in the process of preparing to be sent out as missionaries, or who are already serving in that capacity.
This vision is certainly not mine alone; it is simply what God is doing right now. Today, the number of Latin American missionaries to other languages and cultures surpasses 8,000 and is rapidly growing.

Tomorrow, I have the privilege to go through another door. I leave in the morning for a brief but important meeting in Quito, Ecuador. Several key mission boards are convening in Quito to discuss how we can work together to get Latin American missionaries to the rest of the world and help support and care for them. As one of only two Spanish-speaking board members, I was asked to represent Christar in this meeting. We work primarily in places of creative access, those places where traditional missionaries are not allowed or effective. We believe that Latin Americans have a big role to play in reaching the least-reached, but we are still learning how to carry this out in practice.

I’ll arrive in Quito late tomorrow night, be in meetings all day Tuesday and Wednesday, and fly home Thursday. My friend Tony Vasquez, Christar and CAM missionary serving in Spain, will meet me there, and together we will represent Christar. I’ll do my best to keep you posted, but I’m not even sure if I’ll have Internet access while there. If not, I’ll try to keep track of what happens and maybe have to post a couple of days together when I get home. Pray for me.