XSTREAM Vision

Many of you are familiar with our global (glocal) ministry but I wonder how many really know our vision. It is a vision that we want you to be a part of.

Let me go backwards a little bit in time and then bring you up to the present, ok?

Our vision for global and national church planting really began in 1975 when my wife, two small children and myself went to Toronto, Canada to plant our first multicultural church. After thirteen years and successfully planting this church we took off for London, England. In six months we had 30 attenders and then six months later we left the work with my associate. We joined with Macedonian Missionary Service in 91 and my vision expanded to higher levels than I ever expected. Thanks to men like Harold Williams and Leon Jasper, I experienced missions in a way that opened my eyes to the greater possibilities of serving Christ globally. Nearly 17 years later we now see many new churches started and more missionaries called to new places all over the world. As a result we now have missionaries and churches in places like; Albania, Jamaica, Mongolia, Lithuania, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Canada and Ukraine, to name a few.

As the foreign field continues to increase with new churches and missionaries it became apparent that the home front was failing. Even though more churches were sending out missionaries and giving to missions, yet very few new churches were being planted at home. In 2003 I was honored to be a part of the launching of a new ministry called Reach America, with Charlie Ellison and Mike Prince along with four other visionary men. It was born with a vision to "help churches plant churches". We have only begun to scratch the surface.

XSTREAM was formed officially in 2005. XSTREAM's vision is to become a ministry that promotes and develops strategies for planting and reproducing churches glocally; networking with all likeminded and willing ministries in order to encourage a church planting movement in the USA without abandoning the foreign field. We continue to pursue the opening of new fields globally and at home. We are not interested in who gets the credit or the glory because it all belongs to Jesus.

XSTREAM's vision: "Promoting a Global Church Planting Movement".

We would love for you to join us in this vision. Visit our church planting section in our website and tell us what you like and what additions you would like to see.

(Pray for the possibilities of starting a new church in Vancouver Canada in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Also pray that a significant work in Nepal can be established. )