Extreme Colombia

Coming  at the end of  June and beginning part of July, God has given me the opportunity to participate with Extreme Nazarene  in Colombia. The team I will traveling with is from the Porterville Church of the Nazarene in CA and where we either are working on the constructions of the Cali Church coliseum or on the various impact teams reaching out to the 3+ million people living in Cali, Colombia.

Please take a minute to watch the video clip below describing the project.



One of the reasons why the church in Cali is growing so rapidly is because of its cell-based strategy. Hundreds of cell groups meet weekly throughout the week. These cell groups serve as evangelism and discipleship vehicles constantly bringing new people into the church. This was one of the best experiences I had when visited Cali in 2008 with the Jesus Film Harvest partners.

Cell group members praying for the Jesus Film Showing in Colombia, 2008

Since Extreme Colombia is partnering with the church, the leaders of these cell groups will be mobilized.  I have requested to part of the impact team with  such  activities  as compassionate aid and medical clinics in poor communities, workshops and conferences for youth, men and women, festivals for children, and evangelism campaigns in all sorts of forms are included in the events.  

How you can participate and/or help:

• Partner with me in praying for the people we will be serving, for my health and effectiveness as a team member, and for the many details of this trip.  Keep up to date about my team with this blog or with the Extreme Colombia project in general via the Colombia project directors, Vincent & Alyson Corks, blog.

• Second, please consider supporting me by helping fill my E-Bag for the trip. E-bags provide critical supplies to the Kingdom expansion in Cali, Colombia. Each Short-Term volunteer is asked to reserve one of their two checked bags for Mission Critical E-bag supplies. Some of the items contained in the E-bags will be used during your project and others will be used for long term. Click here for my e-bag on Amazon.com.

• The Cali Church currently has 6 weekend services (soon to be 8) which are held Saturday and Sunday every week all with standing room only. Based on the current rapid growth of the church, a new church home with a much higher capacity must be built as soon as possible. Failure to build now may hinder further growth of the church. Therefore, the pastor and his leadership team have designed and begun raising money to build a coliseum with a capacity of 7,000 people.  

The church has already raised an astonishing $5,000,000 of the $11,000,000 budget, but needs help with the rest.  If you would like to help by contributing a tax-deductible donation to help build the coliseum, write a check to Extreme Nazarene Ministries and send to the address below.  To ensure the funds go to the right extreme project and where the initial contact is from, please write in the Memo line   Colombia project/Sankovich.

Extreme Nazarene Ministries

4800 W Fairview Ste. C

Boise, ID 83706

         You may donate via phone by calling Crowne One (Donor and Volunteer Services) at 1-800-326-9235.  Again clearly identify the Colombia Project / Sankovich for accurate records.

Thanks for your support!