Colombia

FMC IN COLOMBIA

PRESENT MINISTRIES

A dynamic, growing church in the capital of Bogotá is developing leaders and planting daughter congregations. The church sponsors a children’s home ministering to former street children in partnership with ICCM. A daughter church in Barrancabermeja, an eight-hour drive from Bogotá, has been established and is growing. The Camino de Vida church in Medellín is implementing a pilot project for Community Church Planting (CCP), simultaneously starting six daughter congregations. Missionaries Ricardo and Beth Gómez work with the Colombia District and throughout Latin America developing systems and materials for CCP and pastoral formation.

ORIGINS

In December of 1993 the director of the FM churches in Costa Rica, Jorge Gomez, traveled to Colombia to visit his mother-in-law. While there he met with his nephew, Libni Gasca Montenegro, who shared that God had given him a vision of raising up a denomination in Colombia. Under Libni’s direction, and with Costa Rican support, the church was started in 1994.

Country Statistics

Mission District

Population: 46,245,297 (72% urban)
Evangelical Christians: 7.5%
FM Work Opened: 1994
FM Churches: 3
FMC Membership: 496
Ordained Elders: 2
Ministerial Candidates: 8
District Leader: Libni Gasca
Dr. Ricardo Gómez, Latin America Area Director

Major Cities:

Bogotá (7.8 million)
Medellin (3 million)
Cali (2.8 million)

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Pray for

• means to financially sustain the ministry to Bogotá’s street children
• leaders and core groups to multiply churches throughout Bogotá and Medellín
• strength for Pastor Libni Gasca as he pastors the church in Bogotá and leads the Colombia Mission District
• the team in Medellín developing materials for Community Church Planting and pastoral formation that will be used throughout Latin America

Country Support Description

Colombia

Reproducible Bulletin Insert

Funding the Colombia Country Support Account (CSA) will help resource the following people and strategic initiatives:

Pastor Libni Gasca, mission district leader for Colombia, an excellent, visionary leader of international caliber, as he mentors leaders throughout Colombia

Leadership development and training for ministry through a virtual program being implemented in partnership with the Seminario Biblico de Colombia in Medellin

Church planting in the key cities of Bogotá and Medellin

Ministries that serve the needs of the local church communities:

a ministry to Bogotá’s street children through a Free Methodist girl’s home whose vision is to walk with and be in the lives of each of these children until they graduate from university

Medellín’s Center for Family Development, an after school program that helps get at-risk children off the streets and provides spiritual, academic and recreational support to counteract the culture of death in which they live

a ministry in Barrancabermeja that serves to combat the spiritual the warfare and poverty that grips the city