June 24, 2019

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Dear Friend,
Greetings from the churches in Moscow, Lima, Manila and Los Angeles! The month of May began with the incredible 2019 EURASIAN MISSIONS CONFERENCE – BRAVE HEART – in Moscow (Russia) where 274 were in attendance! Announced was that Oleg & Aliona Sirotkin – the Eurasian World Sector Leaders – will lead the Kiev (Ukraine) Church and Dima & Tanya Serafonov will lead Moscow! On May 19th was the Inaugural Service of the Lima (Peru) International Christian Church – the 100th SoldOut Movement Church! On June 2nd was the 12th Anniversary Service of the City of Angels International Christian Church, the Jerusalem Church of the SoldOut Movement! At the end of service, the Tampa (Florida) Supplemental Mission Team was sent off with the prayers of the church!
 
Then, on June 13-16th in Metro Manila was the 2019 PACIFIC RIM MISSIONS CONFERENCE – AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST! On Sunday, an amazing 526 gathered and watched eight baptisms, one of which was a denominational minister from Yangon, Myanmar!
Then to close the service, those assembled fell to our knees in prayer as the Holy Spirit sent out the Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and Davao (Philippines) Mission Teams! And to God be all the glory!  
BREAKING NEWS
MERCY Goes Worldwide!
Nick Bordieri – World Sector Leader of MERCYworldwide: Greetings from the CSW-MERCY Orphanage in Phnom Penh! Denise & I just returned from an incredible Pacific Rim Missions Conference, where we celebrated the Day of MERCY on Thursday, June 13th by partnering with the La Huerta Elementary School to reach out to 200 of their children! (Kip will share more in his report.)
Perhaps the other big highlight of the PRMC for us was the sending off of the Phnom Penh Mission Team led valiantly by Blady & Cielo Perez on Sunday, June 16th! Praise God at our first Sunday on June 23rd – with the Phnom Penh Remnant Group joining the Phnom Penh Mission Team – we had an incredible attendance of 45!
All around the world in the SoldOut Movement Churches, the Day of MERCY has been celebrated! In New York City and San Francisco, the MERCY Ambassadors reached out to and entertained the elderly!
In São Paulo, over 500 school children, parents and community members from one of the poorest neighborhoods attended this year's MERCY Festival! MERCY Ambassadors organized and set up medical care, video games, haircuts, a theater play, drawings and singing! 
In Chicago and Sydney, the MERCY Ambassadors reached out to the homeless with love and food! One hurting gentleman in Sydney expressed, "I am so happy to speak to another human being who genuinely just wants to help."
In Los Angeles, MERCY Ambassadors installed over 1,000 life-saving fire alarms in another great project in partnership with the American Red Cross!  
In Kiev, Valentina was baptized two weeks ago, and she is the founder of the Unity Foundation, which supports people with special needs. She is very active, talented and compassionate! On the Day of MERCY, we partnered with the Unity Foundation! Valentina invited many people with special needs, so the MERCY Ambassadors could met, make friends, serve them, and even talk about our church! Everyone is so happy and we have decided to continue our relationship weekly!  
Also, thanks to our MERCY Projects, we have met and baptized three hearing impaired people this year! As well, Sunday was the baptism of Irina, who is not hearing impaired, but because of her parents she has learned sign language! So now God has provided a translator for our dear, deaf brothers and sisters in our services!
For Denise & me in Phnom Penh, it is the Day of MERCY everyday! In considering all that the Lord has done at the CSW-MERCY Orphanage, Job 8:7 comes to mind, "And though you started with little, you will end with much." We kicked off the summer focusing on the CSW-MERCY Orphanages' Three Pillars of Growth and Development Plan which center on Character, Education and Health!
 
To that end, excitingly, the Boys Bathroom Project is completed! It was incredible to witness this project take shape over the six-months of construction from January to June!
Upon completion of this project, we broke ground on two new projects within the orphanage. The first is the Boys' Bedroom Project. The old, leaky bathroom upstairs has been demolished and this space is being renovated into a bedroom for the younger boys, who are currently living in two rooms in the Girls' Dormitory. The second new project is the creation of the much-anticipated game room, which will also double as an auditorium. The children are so excited to play ping pong – a national sport – on their new ping pong table! In addition, once completed, the kids are fired up to watch movies during monthly movie nights which will be started once the project is completed. Finally, and most encouraging, the auditorium will become the new "free" meeting location for the Phnom Penh International Christian Church! 
A special thank you to Dennis Wong and The Wong Foundation, established in loving memory of Sharon Wong, for the generous donations in 2018 and 2019 that have made these projects possible!
Also, a big thank you to all of the USA Churches for $200,000 in 2019 from your Missions and Weekly Collections! Spread over 12 months, this funds the needs of the 55 children at the CSW-MERCY Orphanage and supports Denise & me!  

HEADLINE NEWS
Danilo Bataglin – Lead Evangelist of Lima: Greeting from the 100th Church of our Movement! Definitively, our God is awesome! He continues to show favor to this city as two more were added to our number this Sunday! The first was Gustavo – a Physical Education Student at the San Marcos University that was baptized into Christ!
  As well, Humberto – a Law Student at the same university who was converted in São Paulo while he was doing an exchange program at the University of São Paulo – came back to his homeland and placed membership! The Lima Disciples are excited to focus on campus ministry so that we can convert as many "opinion leaders" as possible so that we can MULTIPLY! We have been focusing our efforts on San Marcos University! Since our Inaugural Service on May 19th, God has blessed us with 7 baptisms and 2 place memberships! We are a total of 18 dangerous dreamers that want to take this whole nation for the Lord! Pray for the workers to multiply!
Sean Valenzuela – Lead Evangelist of Auckland: Much love from the Family in New Zealand! There has been nothing but thanksgiving and rejoicing in the church as God continues to answer our prayers! Since we arrived in January of this year, we have had a baptism every four weeks! Our latest additions into the family were Samuel and Timoteo! Sam is a childhood friend of Pascal, our first male baptism, and after seeing a post on Facebook that Pascal was baptized, Sam immediately contacted Pascal. Three weeks later, Pascal baptized Sam into Christ!  
Timoteo, originally from Samoa, is a first year student at the University of Auckland studying Geology. He was baptized during our first Auckland Church Retreat in the beautiful countryside of New Zealand! I cannot say enough of how much this has encouraged the church! Why? Those of us from Sydney are very close to the four brave Sydney souls that are heading to Samoa in July to plant the Apia Church! It was a chilling four degrees Celsius (39 degrees Fahrenheit) during Tim's baptism, but the brothers braved the waters and helped him into the light!
This past week, we had our first MERCYworldwide Project! We volunteered with the organization Conservation Volunteers to help plant native trees in the community. During our couple of hours working hard in the fields, we were able to plant 1,500 trees that day!
Thank you for all your prayers and support! We are family… to the end! 
Ron Harding – Lead Evangelist of Atlanta: Greetings from the "Engine of the South" – "Hot'lanta!" For Tracy & me, forging the "Atlanta Story" is proving to be one of the more momentous times in our lives! Six of us arrived on December 21, 2018. Two days later, we had 27 at our first service! By January 1, 2019, we added our first restoration! On February 24th, with 15 mission team members moved in, we had an Inaugural Service attendance of 233 and two baptisms that weekend!
Tim Kernan says, "Mission teams fail when we lose the mission and/or the team." Satan attacked us with both the mission and the team! We lost our first baptism and we had a few "situations" with some team members, stealing the joy of the victories. However, Damon & Vicki James and Tracy & I "put our hands to the plow" each of us grabbing the hands of a few team members putting those hands on their plows, and the Atlanta Church has not looked back since! We surged forward, with a string of additions, including the baptisms of an awesome young single sister, who baptized her opinion leader teen cousin and an awesome campus sister, who attends Clayton State!  
Then my son and I flew to Seattle, packed my father's things, and drove him and his belongings to Atlanta – back to his spiritual family! He flew his girlfriend Diane to Atlanta, where they stayed in separate homes and we studied with both of them. One week later, my father was restored to the Lord and then he helped baptize Diane!  
The following week, we baptized Vicki Washington – the mother of Donna Shaw (Shepherdess in Training in DC) – who's first church service was with us in Washington DC six years ago!  
Then thanks to the generosity of the Kernans and Causeys in Los Angeles, Mike & Stephanie Schafer were sent to once again be with Tracy & me!
The first thing the Schafers did was to help Charisse – a Georgia State University Master's Student – by moving her heart to have urgency in being right with God. Stephanie, Vicki, Dara and Tracy studied with her until 4:15AM and Charisse was baptized at just the Schafers' second worship service!
In 2019, your Atlanta Family has been blessed by God with 11 baptisms, 6 restorations and 6 place memberships, so we now number 34 sold-out disciples! We are beyond grateful for the Missions money raised and given by all of the USA SoldOut Family of Churches for us to plant Atlanta! We are also indebted for the sacrifice of every ministry who sent disciples for this great city! Please pray for us as we pray for you!
Luke Speckman – Lead Evangelist of New York City and the Kathmandu Mission Team Leader: In early June, Roger Green and I went to Kathmandu, Nepal to spy out the land for our July church planting! We had an amazing time in that beautiful city! I was greeted at the airport by Bijay and Roger. Bijay was baptized in Dubai and has been stranded in Kathmandu for the last year due to visa issues. We expect Bijay and his wife to be some of the first additions.
We had an incredible time touring the city, the palaces, the temples and the campuses. Our goal was to figure out where we should live and meet for church.  
Nepal is a region of significant seismic activity. The Indian plate pushing against the Eurasian plate is what created the tallest mountain range in the world, the Himalayas. Mount Everest in Nepal is the tallest mountain in the world at 29,029 feet (8,848 meters)! It is about 80 miles from Kathmandu "as the crow flies." Eight of the top ten tallest mountains in the world are in Nepal.  
In Kathmandu, the Golden Temple is one of the most famous Buddhist temples in the city. I met with Anup, who was baptized in London in 2013. He has been in Kathmandu for a number of months. He is a well-known former Buddhist whose family temple is the Golden Temple! Anup has a group of 33 people for us to study the Bible with upon our arrival!  
We went to visit the largest college in Kathmandu, Tribhuvan University. This network of schools is similar to the California State University System with multiple campuses. In Nepal, the Tribhuvan University has over 600,000 students! The largest campus is in Kathmandu. Unlike India, the campus is not closed. We were able to drive right on and look around.  
In every place we went, Roger and I placed our feet and prayed for God to give us the land! (Joshua 1:3) We are looking forward to the send-off service in New Delhi on Sunday, June 30th and our first service in Kathmandu on Saturday, July 6th. On an interesting note, we learned that Sunday is a normal work day in Nepal. People get off early Fridays and everything is shut down on Saturdays. So all churches meet on Saturday rather than Sunday, which we will do as well! Please pray for our landing in Nepal and our Inaugural Service on Saturday, July 27th!
Blaise Feumba – Overseeing Evangelist of French-speaking Africa: "The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned." (Isaiah 9:2) Out of the 27 French-speaking countries in Africa with over 400 million people, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stands out as the second largest country with 82 million in population!
 
All minerals used in electronics like cells phones and laptops are present in this country including large reserves of cobalt, diamonds, tantalum, tin and gold. In spite of all these riches, Congo is the poorest country in the world based on its GDP per capita. HIV is the most serious health threat with more than a million adults living with it, and to make the matter worse, the country has the second largest number of malaria cases globally. Life expectancy has dropped to an average of 58 years.  
Isaiah's prophecy can be applied to this dark land, as in spite of these depressing facts, the Kingdom of God is powerfully advancing in the Congo! The Kinshasa Church led by our valiant Evangelist and Women's Ministry Leader, Micky & Lyly Ngungu is the second largest church in our Movement with now 349 disciples! In 2019, they have witnessed 58 baptisms and 6 restorations with the number of campus students climbing to 66! Micky & Lyly are also overseeing three other churches in the country in Mbuji Mayi, Badundu and Kikwit with now respectively 77, 32 and 25 disciples! A short while ago, Micky contracted typhoid fever while visiting the church in Mbuji Mayi, and only recovered in poor medical conditions with the Movement financial help and prayers!  
Another nation where the Gospel is advancing is the West African French-speaking country of Ivory Coast! With 25 million inhabitants, this nation has been through a long period of political instability, which included a disastrous civil war in 2011 with countless dead. The country has one of the worst HIV infection rates in the world and malaria is the number one cause of death. Every year, 63,000 children under five die of malaria; that is seven children per hour.  
In spite of all these dark facts, the Lord has been moving powerfully to bring the light of Christ in its healing wings to these amazing people! The church has had a good first half of the year with 31 baptisms and 2 restorations so far! The campus ministry has grown to 51 students and we now have 184 sold-out disciples in the Abidjan Church nobly led by our fearless Evangelist and Women's Ministry Leader – Amadou & Angele Sountoura! The goal is to reach 230 disciples by the end of this year!  
Amadou & Angele also oversee the Korezouzoua Church inspiringly led by Justin & Joceline Koualou! So far this year, they have witnessed 24 baptisms and 2 restorations! Now the church is 145 sold-out disciples! In total, the Sountouras are overseeing 329 disciples in two churches in the Ivory Coast!  
In August 2020, Patricia & I are looking forward to join these valiant leaders and disciples "on the ground" to build churches of thousands with the Holy Spirit's help and direction! We can not wait to fight side-by-side with our World Sector Leaders and close friends – Andrew & Patrique Smellie! Please keep us in your prayers! To our Mighty God be all the glory!
Cesar Limon – Lead Evangelist of Portland: We are continually inspired by all the amazing things God is doing here and we would like to share about our Missions Collection, our MERCY Projects, our ICCM Class and the incredible turn around we have seen this year in forceful advancement! For our Missions Collection, we raised $76,000 and are not done as we are hosting a fundraiser setting up nine TNT Firework Tents that will prayerfully bring in over $40,000 to close out missions and get many disciples to the Latin American Missions Conference!  
Secondly, we were able to host nine different MERCY Day Projects all around Portland including painting low income apartments, serving at the Oregon Food Bank, cleaning up a Community Garden, feeding over 230 meals to the homeless, and also spring cleaning over 40 houses for the elderly and disabled!   
I also bring good news from ICCM as we saw 11 students graduate from the ICCM-Portland BA Program last year, and six more will be graduating this year! Equally exciting is the number of leaders that are going after their ICCM Master's Degree! We have initiated the ICCM Pacific Northwest Master's Class that currently has seven enrolled: Joel Parlour, Courtney Parlour, Debbie Limon, Jorge Castillo, Valeria Castillo, Alysia Pavlenko and Roger Parlour – who just placed membership from Chicago in Seattle to be a Shepherd for all of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Churches! (The PNW Churches are: Eugene, Portland and Seattle, which are overseen by John Causey of LA!)
Lastly, after a very slow start to the year with no baptisms during the first two months, we decided as a church to go to God and get the faith we needed to believe that God was going to do amazing things despite this tragic beginning. That HE DID as we have seen 20 additions (11 baptisms, 8 restorations and 1 place membership) in the last four months with some amazing people including Tony – a traveling nurse, Jeremy – an engineer from Nike, and also Owa – a former NFL player, who is dearly loved by many around the Movement!
Praise God for the shepherding that has been taken place as we have only had four fall aways in 2019! So, the Spirit has grown the Portland Church this year from 80 to 96 disciples! As well, we were honored to send out Dima to Indianapolis and Naomi to Samoa! Grace and peace to all! Michael Williamson – Lead Evangelist of London: Even though we are experiencing the wettest June since 1914, the London Sisters are on fire as we are gearing up for our Women’s Day on June 30th entitled – CONFIDENT! We are excited to have Chantelle Anderson – former WNBA player – of the AMS Region in Los Angeles speak! We are going after bringing out quality over quantity guests! We have raised over £1,000 in ticket sales so far and hoping to double that by event day!  
We are also fired up at the media attention MERCY has received! As well, God has blessed us to raise over $148,000 USD for our Missions Contribution!
We are laser focused in prayer for campus and teen baptisms in 2019! So faith-building, in the past seven weeks, we have had 10 additions in London – seven of which were from the Campus and Teen Ministry! Michele & I are personally going after the Teen Ministry (Elite Teens) by hosting a Teen Bible Talk in our home every week alongside leading the Campus Devo on Fridays!
And lastly, be praying for the 2019 European Missions Conference (EMC) entitled, RADICAL!
This year, the conference will be held on October 24-27th at Porchester Hall in West London! Lord willing that Sunday, the Spirit will be sending out the Amsterdam (Netherlands) Mission Team! You may register at www.londonchurch.org.uk.  
MCKEANS' MISSIONARY JOURNEYS
The last Mobile Good News Email was published on Monday, April 29th which allowed me to fly to Moscow on Wednesday, May 1st for the 2019 EURASIAN MISSIONS CONFERENCE (EAMC), which was creatively titled, BRAVE HEART!  
I arrived on Thursday afternoon just in time for the Speakers Dinner where Oleg had asked me to preach on BOLD LEADERSHIP TO EVANGELIZE THE WORLD!
I began the lesson recapping the landing of the original 17-member Moscow Mission Team on July 9, 1991, when Russia was the center of the 15 nation Soviet Union! On July 14, 1991, we celebrated our Inaugural Service with 268 in attendance! At each of our first 14 baptisms (in the first 14 days of the church), we had soldiers with machine guns "watching us" and the baptisms!
A month later in mid-August was the failed "hardliners coup!" During those days, tanks patrolled the streets, people feared for their lives, and most "denominational missionaries" went "home to America" out of "safety concerns." Though I received several calls from parents of our mission team asking me when they would come home, I simply answered the parents that their sons and daughter would not come home unless they asked us. Why? In my heart, I believed that the new Russian Christians must see our commitment to Christ and to them was greater than our concern about our well-being or even our lives. This proved a powerful strategy as the false Christian teachers were cleared out from Moscow by God, and the failed coup birthed a new day in Russia – freedom of religion! That first year, God blessed us with 850 baptisms, and I simply said to all at the Speakers Dinner, "This is the kind of bold leadership that we need in 2019!" I noted that Oleg Sirotkin was about number 100 of the first year Moscow baptisms!  
I went on to share that in 2019, the 12th Anniversary Year of the SoldOut Movement, we have planned 12 plantings:
  I added that the Spirit was also sending out two "Supplemental Mission Teams:" Bogotá (Columbia) sent out from São Paulo and Tampa (Florida) sent out from LA! I continued by teaching that God is so bold in His leadership that in the Song of Moses, the opening verse says, "The Lord is a warrior!" (Exodus 15:3) I then shared about the Lament Of The Bow by David that eulogized Saul and Jonathan as God's "weapons of war." (2 Samuel 1:27) Following I shared that the acronym of "Weapons Of War" is WOW! I called all the leaders to see themselves as God's weapons of war and to have a "WOW Factor" in their leadership as Moses did in crossing the Red Sea and David did in slaying Goliath!  
On Friday morning, May 3rd was the Leadersship Workshop and the opportunity to register for the entire EAMC!
 
Dima Serafonov delivered a fantastic message on THE BRAVE HEART OF PAUL! His three points were: 1) Boldly Admit Your Defeats, 2) Boldly Get Out Of Yourself, and 3) Boldly Love The Lost. In his last point, he used 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 as his text. Dima pointed out that the English word translated "patience" in verse four – "Love is patience" – is better translated from the Greek as "long-suffering." Then he said of motivating unfruitful disciples, "If your patience ends, go to 'long patience!'"  
Following short 10-minute charges centered on different aspects of BEING BRAVE were powerfully delivered by Vlad Matveyuk of Moscow, Maria Bisimova of Moscow, Peter Markarian of Gainesville, Dom Herlitzek of London, and Mike Patterson of New York City!  
Late that afternoon, I received an urgent call from my brother Randy that our 90 year old mom had taken a "turn for the worst" with her flu and heart condition, and therefore had been admitted to ICU. After calling the airlines, the soonest I could leave Moscow for Orlando where Mom lived was early the next morning at 6:30AM. With this on my heart, I went to the EAMC FIRST GENERAL SESSION, which was the MERCY Night!