Positioned For Exponential Growth

The strongest lingering impression I have from our team's trip to Honduras is that the ministry of Jim & Francis Martin is poised to expand very rapidly in the next few months. It reminds me of the term "exponential growth." I first heard that term in the training materials distributed by the Saddleback Church, led by Rick Warren. The idea was to go beyond dreaming about, praying for and planning growth of 10% or 25% or even 50%. Warren and his staff suggested that this type of thinking could actually limit the potential of a ministry. Instead, they talked about the type of growth that expanded a ministry by as much as 10 times.
Jim is currently in the US building his network and reaching out to recruit additional partners/supporters for his work. I've been blessed to sit in on some of those conversations. According to his calculations, Honduras Ministries is currently impacting approximately 1,200 lives. As outstanding as that fact is, I deeply believe that within a very short time Honduras Ministries could be in a position to impact 12,000 lives!
That is an exciting and somewhat frightening thought. It means that the organization of the ministry is going to be stretched intensely. It means that many more people need to make a decision to become involved. Statistics indicate that ten people must hear about a ministry in order to find that one person who will make a decision to become involved. So that means many, many more people need to hear about Honduras Ministries.
The bottom line is that if Honduras Ministries is going to grow exponentially in impact, then the support for and involvement in Honduras Ministries must grow exponentially as well.
How will that happen? Maybe all of us that currently support Jim & Francis can increase what we are doing a little bit. Yeah...that might help some. But the real need is to increase the nunmber of people involved. To do that, we have to increase the number of people who are hearing. So, I guess the best thing to do is share this opportunity with the people you know. Invite them to become fans of our Facebook page and/or subscribers to this blog. Invite them to visit the ministry's website, www.hondurasministries.org.
I'm very excited about a new video is now available to help with this. Ultimately, it will be available at the ministry's website. But right now, you can find this video at http://ovcinc.com/honduras_ministries. Take a look at it and share it with all your friends. Perhaps several of them will become involved with this exciting work!