Story number 2 for 27 Apr 2000

Meanwhile, Walk Thru the Bible is preparing to launch a new program in the Philippines. Terry Sparks says their team is preparing to travel into the area in the middle of next month to open a teaching and discipleship curriculum for area believers. This comes in response to the realization of the ministry’s long term goal of planting 50-thousand churches. “World Teach is a wonderful follow-up to the planting of those churches, and in fact, I think that goal has been achieved in the Philippines and the goal may have even been increased to 70-thousand churches. World Teach comes along at a time when those churches need to be followed up.” Sparks says their vision is to guarantee solid growth and teaching for future ministry. “There’s a lot of spiritual interest in the Philippines, but people really need to know the Bible. Our expectation is that while we’re there, we’re going to be able to train 500 to 1000 World Teachers to teach personal holiness. That would be our largest launch ever.”