How many of you work for

the Lord 100% on a

monthly basis?
 I am the first Christian in my blood line
from my mother’s and father’s side,
because someone not just prayed, but
built a relationship.

Presentation……..before, today
 Transformation:
The Renewal of the
Mind – Make Disciples
Fernando Alvira, Executive Director, Oportunidad
Latinoamérica Colombia – OLC
Bulgaria, September 2007.
Number of people with a
decision for Christ every
Sunday and/or also in
any evangelistic event, 32
approximately. (2005 –
2006)

Number of Sunday
reunions per year. 52 1664

Evangelistic events per

year 7 224
Number of people that
arrive from other
Christian Congregations 400
and ex- members of the
400
same Congregation.

Total number of people

that should be made 2288
Disciples every year.
Fuente: Estimaciones eventos 2005 – 2006 y cálculos del Min. Intercesión 2006.
 Persons Retained to be made Disciples

3000
# of persons

2464
2500 Begin
2000 1800 1664
New
1500 Lost
1000
1000 664 Net
500 Total year

0
1
status
 Retention of person to be made Discip

levels of training to make Disciples : 1.800 members: 10 % Ann

80% Retention90% Retention95% Retention

xpected AG: 180 members

Persons that Begins 1.800 1.800 1.800

Level 1 1.440 1.620 1.710

Level 2 1.152 1.458 1.625

Level 3 921 1.312 1.544

Additional persons 1.059 668 436

Actual yearly Growth rate 54.03 % 34.08% 22.24 %

Annual Retention 45.92 % 65.92 % 77.76 %

 TYPE OF PERSONS THAT ATTEND A CHURCH
TO BE MADE DISCIPLES

Use
Make Disciples
Repetition
Continue

Retention
of persons
Continue
to be made Occasional Schedules Satisfaction
disciples
•Weekly •Themes
•Saturday •Masters ‘Come backs’
s
Exceptional •Every 2
•Places

weeks
 TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT PASSES BY A LOCAL
CONGREGATIONS

Ex
members
Other
Christian
Friends
Congregations

Relations 1st event**

Ex members
same Service Long-term
Congregation
Potential Expectative 2nd event
Get in Christian
Members Price* Occasional
Churches
Key 3rd event
Spiritual Factor
Generated Determined
New disorders
loyalty by the
Christians Necessities 4th+ event
Catholics and compromise
Other And other
Orthodox
Sources proposals

Others R
*Cantidad de recursos que se utilizan para asistir a recibir, capacitarse, etc.
** Eventos son las capacitaciones o ciclos de inducciones en las que se ve involucrada el nuevo o antiguo creyente. Tiempo en
el cual se puede transformar
 WHAT IS HAPPENING ON SUNDAYS AND EVANGELISTIC
EVENTS

Ex 10%
members
85% Other
Christian
Friends 7,89%
Congregations
0%
Relations 1st event**
Ex members
same Service Long-term 6,53%
Congregation
Potential
4%Expectative 2nd event
Get in Christian
Members Price* Occasional 5,24%
Churches
5% Key 3rd event
Spiritual Factor
Generated Determined
New disorders
loyalty by the
15% Christians Necessities
90% 4th+ event
Catholics and compromise
Other Catholics And other
90% Orthodox proposals
1,97%
Sources 1%
Others R
*Cantidad de recursos que se utilizan para asistir a recibir, capacitarse, etc.
** Eventos son las capacitaciones, ciclos o capacitaciones en las que se ve involucrada el nuevo o antiguo creyente. Tiempo en
el cual se puede transformar
 Ex
members
Other Transformation and
Friends Christian Satisfaction of the new and old
Congregations member
Relations 1st event**
Ex members
same Service Long-term
Congregation
Potential Expectative 2nd event
Get in Christian
Members Price* Occasional
Churches
Key 3rd event
Spiritual Factor
Generated Determined
New disorders
loyalty by the
Christians Necessities 4th+ event
Catholics and compromise
Other Catholics And other
Orthodox
Sources proposals
Interview of Members
Others R
*Cantidad de recursos que se utilizan para asistir a recibir, capacitarse, etc.
** Eventos son las capacitaciones, ciclos o capacitaciones en las que se ve involucrada el nuevo o antiguo creyente. Tiempo en
el cual se puede transformar
 EVANGELISM TO MAKE DISCIPLES
•Focus on contact •Focus on Relations

•Identifies Immediate problems •Identifies opportunities and resolve problems for live

•Charity oriented • Relationship oriented seeking spiritual sustainability

•Strategies for events Strategies to put Gifts of church to serve persons

to make disciples
•Members activism •Service of Gifts

•The emphasis is to make contact with persons •The emphasis is to establish long-term relationships with
persons, businesses, local associations, networks, agencies,
other congregations and social groups.
•Focus on the individual •Focus on the community and regions

See persons as “Realm Clients” •See persons as “Realm Producers”

•Seeks “To Arrange” the problem of Salvation of persons
•The result: Maintaining the Christian
•The Events and the Salvation are the answer.
•Seeks “To Develop” the potential of Salvation of persons and
make them commit themselves with the Salvation of others
•Result: Develop the Christian
•The Persons their Salvation, their Relationships and the
Salvations of their Fellow – human being are the answer.
 BELIEVE
CULTURE
IDIOSYNCRASIES
IDEOLOGIES

CONCEPTS

STRUCTURES

ARGUMENTS

THOUGHTS

IDEAS

IMAGINATIONS

FORTRESSES
 ECONOMIC SYSTEM

ORGANIZATIONS NING
L AN
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MAKE CUSTOMS EVENTS
DISCIPLES
ATTITUDES
EVANGELISM
VALUES

BELIEVE
IL D
BU
CONDUCTS
RELATIONS

TRAININGS
PO TEAMS
L IT
IC
IAL COMMUNITY
S OC
RELIGIOUS
POLITICS
•Are we making disciples?
•Should we blame it on
someone or should we do
something?
Reality of World
(Cosmos not
Erets)
 Poverty in the Old
Testament

•Acknowledge their dependence on God

 The Income
Distribution Pyramid
Billions Live in Poverty
Global Distribution of
Wealth

75% of the world lives

on less than $5 per day
 Economic Growth Doesn’t
Benefit All
 Today’s world economy is 7 times larger
than in 1950

 Income gap between wealthy and poor

countries has doubled in 50 years
 Wealth Disparities Affect
the Vulnerable
 15% of the world possess 79%
of the wealth
 The remaining 85% survive with
21% of wealth
 25,000 children die of hunger every day
 1 to 3 million African children die of malaria each
year—a sickness that can easily be prevented.
Is the root of poverty a
lack of money?
Or
Is the root of poverty a
spiritual root?
 Are we Doing
Something?
Are we praying very
Much, but not doing
any thing?
 Word of Science, September 20
2007, Fernando & Claudia Alvira.
•A country with a low self stem

•The people are going to Western European

Countries to get a way their dignity working in
any thing to win respect from these countries

•People are leaving from Bulgaria because they

do not have opportunities to work here
Another …….
Reality
 Today’s Global Context of
Mission
• Current political solutions not working
• These solutions rely on free-marketing competition
• Imbalance of power means: in competition the strong
become stronger and the weak become weaker
• The rich become richer and the poor become poorer.
• Conclusion: study of today’s poverty ratifies the Biblical
insight that the main cause of poverty is oppression
 God’s Purpose for
Humankind
• Disobedience in Eden broken relationships:
 Relationship with God is broken: idolatry
 Human relationships are broken: political oppression & injustice
 Relationship with God’s creation is broken: misuse of natural
resources
 GOD CAN HEAL THESE RELATIONSHIPS:
- establish Kingdom of justice and peace
- side with the weak
 God’s Love for All

• The LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of

lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who
is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes
justice for the orphan and the widow, and who
loves
the strangers, providing them food and clothing.
You shall love the stranger, for you were
strangers in the land of Egypt.
• Deuteronomy 10.17-19
 God’s Justice

• Redistribution of social, economic, and

political power for abundance of life for
every human being
• Everyone is of equal value, so is entitled
to a fair share
 Justice as Mercy

He has told you, O mortal, what is good;

and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8
 Embodiment of God’s
Love
• The person and work of Jesus Christ
• Anointed by the Spirit to bring good news
to the poor
• Gospels show the poor were the priority of
Jesus’ ministry
The Role of
Church
 Transformation

• The church as God’s agent of transformation

• God’s Kingdom of justice and peace, brought into
history by Jesus Christ
• Mission of the church is cooperating with God in
transforming human life
• The church is the means through which relations
broken by sin are healed
• Then, God’s shalom can be made visible in
socioeconomic, political and spiritual
transformation
 Special Role of the
Church
•The church has been given a special place in the
fulfillment of God’s purpose for humankind. This
fulfillment is made visible in society primarily
through local churches—congregations of disciples
of Jesus Christ—in the extent to which they
engage in God’s mission (to make disciples)
wherever they are.
 Priorities of the Church

• A top priority for the church is to enable

people to articulate and analyze their needs
• This prevents the church from jumping in
with her own agenda.
• It can also help the church to begin
developing meaningful links with the
community.
 Church Commitments

•Integral mission requires of the local church the

following commitments:
• to Jesus Christ as the Lord of all creation
• to one another
• to the world as the object of God’s love
• to the priesthood of all believers
• to servant leadership
• to flexible church structures (Who works
100% for the Lord?)
 The Church as God’s Agent
of Transformation
• Local church is a work force that can be
mobilized to serve the poor
• There are 100,000 parachurch organizations.
Heavily dependent on volunteer help
• Important faith-based means through which
Christians are seeking to serve the poor
 The Role of
Christians NGOs
 Christian NGOs

• Staff with expertise to contribute to the work

among the poor.
• Staff with time to carry out projects church
leaders can not.
• Part of a wider network, and under Apostolic
coverage
• Access to funding not available to local
churches
 The role of Christian NGOs
•If the local church is designed to have a special
place in restoring the relationships that have been
broken by sin between men and God, its
empowerment must be a primary concern for all
Christian NGOs

•NGOs must help the church as agent of

Transformation: Renewal of the mind
 A Call to Service

Is not this the fast that I choose: to lose the bonds

of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let
the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and
to bring the homeless poor into your house; when
you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide
yourself from your own kin?
Isaiah 58:6-7
 The role of Christian NGOs

• The task of empowering the churches to practice

mercy in terms of good works and to do justice in
terms of advocacy is a very difficult task.
– It demands a change of mind, a recovery of the gospel as
a message to be lived out, proclaimed in words and
demonstrated through good works. (STOP BEING
EVANGELICS)
– It also demands a recovery of a view of the church as the
community of the Lord Jesus, the crucified Messiah. A
difficult task, indeed—and yet, an unavoidable task
An NGO Work
 13 YEARS SERVING THE
POOREST OF THE POOR IN
COLOMBIA
 What Do We Do
We give loans to contribute to the
quality of life of micro entrepreneurs in
underprivileged areas, through integral
political, economic, social, and spiritual
training achieving transformation of the
client, their families and their
communities. The training of these
leaders is based on Christian principles
and values
 Where Are We
Bogotá Carrera 22 # 15 – 28 Sur.
Zones: Suba, Usme, Bosa, Ciudad
Bolívar, Engativa,
Fontibon, Chia, Sibaté,
Zipaquira, Soacha, San Cristóbal
Norte y Sur.
Villavicencio Calle 35 Nº 35- 46 Barzal
Zones: Restrepo, Acacias,
Cumaral, Ciudad
Porfía, la Nohora, La Reliquia.
Next Branches: Medellín, Pasto, Cúcuta y
 How Do We Do It
Trust Banks
• Groups from 15 persons to 40 person.
• Amounts from US$300 to US$750. (US$150 in
some projects)
• Duration 16 weeks.
• Reunions every fifteen days to pay dues and
to train the client. The training is done in the
zone.
• Savings are compulsory (10%), Voluntary
savings and common fund.
• Collaterals: Group Guarantee
• Microentrepreneurs from strata 0 and 1.
• Microentrepreneurs from subsistence
economic accumulation.
 How Do We Do It
Individual Loans
• Only for clients graduated from OLC’s TB
methodology.
• Amounts from US$750 to US$2.500. From US$2.500
to US$5.000 different collateral.
• Duration From 6 months to 12 months. A few up to 18
months.
• Monthly meetings to pay dues and train the client.
The training are given at OLC office.
• Collaterals: Depends on client credit history with OLC,
it will be formal or psychological.
• Microentrepreneurs from strata 1 and 2.
• Microentrepreneurs from simple and compound
economic accumulation.
 Type of Clients
Profile of served clients
• Persons from strata 0, 1 y 2.
• Vulnerable, Afrocolombian, Displaced and
Handicapped Communities. Emphasis on
Women head of family(85%).
• Ages from 18 years old to 94 years old.(4%>
than 60 years)
• 70% clients are type 5 in Credit Bureau.
Never have had a Loan
• Sectors: 28% Industry, 53% Commercial, 19%
Service
• 50% of clients have seasonal business
 What have we done 2001 -
• 2006
Funds rotated 2.4 times per year approximately
• We have disbursed US$19’629.500 in credits with
an average loan size of US$124,50 per client
• Direct Beneficiaries
• 71.987 with 56.979 credits, in 4.234 Trust Groups.
• Credit:
• 56.979 families strata 0, 1 y 2 like this:
– 9.269 Displaced families
– 1.058 Handicapped families
– 2.378 Afrocolombian families
– 41.594 Woman head of family
– 15.385 Men head of family
 What have we done 2001 -
Health Brigades 2006
8 brigades in 5 years, 3.400 families served. (Deontology,
Ophthalmology, Judicial, Sexual health Counseling, etc.)
Alphabetization:
19 persons.(> 50 Yrs)
Technical trainings: 5 different kind of business. (Sawing,
Liquid Soap industry, necklaces and earrings making, etc.)
1.810 Handicapped and Displaced persons.
Starting new businesses:
9 industries, 82 persons.
Non Formal Trainings:
33.872 Trainings in zone.
Integral Homes: Nutrition and education.
512 children between 3 and 13 years.
Decisions for Christ
17.031
Bible principles why to activate the
church through micro loans or
micro businesses to
build relationships?
• The Lord spoke of money and managing
material things more than any thing else.
• Out of His 32 Parables, 19 are about
money.
 A few Biblical facts about
money
Written In Bible:
• 500 times praying
• < 500 times Faith
• 2.350 times how to manage
money and our belongings
 Some facts of money
management in Bible
• The way we manage money affects our relation with God. Luck 16:11 “If
therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon
(riches), who will commit to your trust the true riches?” Mat 25:21.

2. The way we managed money is an external sign of our internal condition

Luck 16:10 “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in
much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.”

3. The material things compete with God for the first place. Mathew 6:24 “No
man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love
the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You
cannot serve God and mammon (riches).”

4. The greatest time spent in our life is making money. How many hours do
you work a day?

The better way I manage money the better relation I have with God.
 VIDEOS
some clients
Impact of microfinance in 3
Latin American countries
1998 – 2005
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 A CHURCH
Work
• MIZPA
• SHAMAR
• AGAPE
 God is into giving. He Gave His Son for you,
because He loves you.
• What are we going to give, so someone else will
know Jesus as his/her savior, AND get to be
made disciple?
- Money?
- Time?
- Experience?
- Talents?
- Etc., etc., etc., etc.,…………….
 BERAKISH, BERAKAH

Blessed means:
- Sent to prosper
- And sent with a purpose
- And sent with a vision and
mission.
 Prophesies Sept. 20/07

• Watch out for masonry, even though you don’t

have in your hearth that masonry is bad for
Bulgaria yet.
• In the future look for means to build character
of Christ in people.
• A Big network of business is about to be
formed, it needs to be administered with
wisdom from God.
• Teach the parents to bless the new
generation. Do it fast.
• Teach the parents to bless the new
generation. Do it fast.
• There are many here that have not been
blessed by their father in order to be or
have what the Lord's have for them.
• There will be 3 years to change what have
been planted, another time will begin of 6
years starting at the time of the first time to
be not just one but unanimous as one
men
Bless Bulgaria and your next generation.
Open the door and let the sound of a
blessing get out of the auditorium.
The peace does not come
to a country by signing
it, but instead by
generating it. Let us
start the
Transformation. Pray,
Thank
BUT AAAAAACT.