Volume 1 Issue 1 – “A New Vision! — A New Assignment!”
Volume 1 Issue 1
A New Vision! — A New Assignment
Over the past 18 months or so we’ve felt a new vision growing in our spirit, a deeper calling to serve the Lord more than ever before. As we prayed, pondered and pursued this calling we felt it was time to commit our complete career to missions. Naturally we felt like we would begin this work where we have already invested so much, El Salvador. Late in the summer we began the application process for career missionary appointment. We are excited to announce that we have completed the process and are appointed career missionaries with Assemblies of God World Missions! Equally exciting is our initial assignment to Buenos Aires, Argentina! Our vision is to establish a Media Center to train global communication missionaries and produce state-of-the-art media materials for Latin America and beyond. We look forward to training Argentine Bible College students in media ministry, producing television programming for the Unsión Satellite Network and to working with local church ministries. It has been interesting to see the seeds God has placed in our hearts over the last 7 years. We have not made this decision lightly keeping it before the Lord in prayer for nearly 2 years. We are as surprised as anyone that we will moving to Argentina. But after much prayer and several confirmations we know that this is God’s will for the next season of our lives. We’re just happy to be a part of it!
A Look Back — His Faithfulness
What a miracle the past seven years have been, as God has used us to establish a Communications Department for Kings Castle International, and to train nationals who are committed to carrying on the ministry as we move toward a new field of service.
When we accepted the call to El Salvador as newlyweds, just out of college, we envisioned staying a year as Missionary Associates. That first year, we experienced two devastating earthquakes which shook the entire country, as many lost everything, including family. Our fear was turned to faith as we began to see the power of media ministries. God clearly placed us in El Salvador “for such a time” as we captured on video the devastation which was distributed throughout the United States. We were humbled as containers of beans, rice, and first aid supplies poured in from nearly every state. Through those relief efforts, God allowed Castle Ministries to find favor with the government which has snowballed into open doors for evangelism.
We recall our excitement with the production of the first audio tapes used in evangelism. Those tapes have morphed from tape to CD, to digital audio. Today, all Castle manuals, logos, music and videos are on tiny Video iPods that are multiplying the message of Christ throughout the world.
We never dreamed how the call to missions would lead us to extend one year, then another, and another until we knew it was a life’s calling.
As we stepped blindly into the direction God was leading, you faithfully supported us with your prayers and finances. Many of you have supported us since the beginning and a thank-you seems inadequate; thank-you for believing in us and our mission even before we fully believed in ourselves and before we fully recognized God’s call into this life of missions.
A Look Ahead — His Calling
As we watched the number of believers grow, and earned the trust of nationals, we assumed our career appointment would be back to San Salvador where we could use the Media Center we established for King’s Castle International as a base for our expanding vision. After our initial shock, God confirmed that the request of AGWM leadership to move to Argentina was His direction. We are not leaving King’s Castle Ministries, we are leaving El Salvador; we will continue to work with the Media Center in El Salvador as well as other ministries throughout the world including Missionary Bill McDonald and the Unsión Satellite Network based in Ecuador.
Our vision is to establish a production studio in Buenos Aires to serve as a network center to other ministries as we create ministry materials, Christian television programming, communique and promotional projects and serve as a center for the development of future latin communications ministers and missionaries. We believe God will send international interns who will catch the vision and join our network as they themselves are called into media missions and ministries. We also feel called to start an Unsión Network Affiliate office to provide television programming from Argentina to be included in their international satellite programming.
God has also given us a vision to establish an internet-based network of communication professionals who will are called to tithe of their time and talents to help missions and ministries throughout the world via the internet. This dream is larger than anything we could do with our natural strength, but we rest assured knowing God will help us accomplish the vision He has birthed.
Your Partnership — His Provision
Sharing our financial need and asking for support has been the hardest part of this entire journey. We can eat anything, sleep anywhere, wear anything, and work endlessly, but when it comes to asking for money it’s just not who we are. That’s how we know this is a lesson God is trying to teach us; learning to rely on Him and His provision has been one of our greatest trials, yet one of our greatest joys on this whole mission’s journey.
As the puzzle pieces are beginning to form a picture, we are excited about how God is going to use us. We hope you are excited with us since we can’t do it without your help! AGWM has asked that our Missionary Associate pledges be signed over to the “Career Missionary” classification. When all of you who are currently supporting us sign over and continue your commitment, we will have over 50% of our monthly support already raised! If each supporting individual or church could find one individual or church to match their pledge we could have our monthly support raised! Imagine what a tremendous burden would be lifted as we could book services with only a cash budget to raise. Then we just pack up and head for Buenos Aires!
What you can do:
Please do one of the following items so we can count on your support as “Career Missionaries”
1) print off this .pdf form (Click Here), fill it out and fax it to
AGWM Fax # 1-417-862-0085
OR
2) send an e-mail containing the information requested in the form to
Nancy Dickerson at ndickerson@ag.org
OR
3) contact us:
e-mail: wellborn@kingscastle.org
phone: 1-417-459-4118
If you are willing to help us schedule a service, meal or meeting with your pastor or at your church or a neighboring church as we itinerate please let us know via e-mail ASAP.
We know that we cannot do this on our own, we are so thankful for your support thus far; only eternity will reveal what you have accomplished for the Kingdom through your sacrifice. We also believe that He’s already spoken to your heart even before you finish this letter. Thanks for standing with us!
Your servants in the Lord,
The Wellborns
Jonathan, Michelle, Alexis & Isabella
