Finishers
Project
3303 S Lindsay Rd
Suite 108 Gilbert, AZ
85297
Ph. 480.854.4444
Contact Our
Staff:
Don Parrott, President/CEO
Nelson Malwitz,
Chief Innovation
Officer
Paul Erdmann,
Chief Operating
Officer
Tom Adelsman,
Director of Church Partnership
Network
Paulette Fitch,
Executive Assistant
Agency/Profile
Relations
Larry Rus,Agency Relations
Director
Renee Ladd,
Assistant to the
President
Colleen
Erdmann, Bookkeeper
Director of Coaching
Network
Bill
Poff,
Web site
development
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Meet the
Staff
Here is the Finishers
Staff based in Gilbert, AZ.
L to R : Tom Adelsman,
Colleen Erdmann, Paul Erdmann, Renee Ladd, and Don
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Coming Events
Click on these links to find more
information about each event.
Missions
Fest
Seattle
Seattle , WA
October 3-4, 2008
Pasadena, CA
October 17-19, 2008
Dallas, TX
November 7-8, 2008
Atlanta, GA
November 14-16, 2008
Portland, OR
January 16-17, 2009
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The Bridge serves to keep you
connected with the amazing ministry and impact of
Finishers Project. We welcome your feedback, so
please call or write.
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Finishers
Movement Among Other Nations
The initial focus of The
Finishers Project at its launch in 1998 was to help
connect mid-life adults in North America with
significant global impact opportunities for ministry. In
the last few years over 1200 have been placed in full
time missions while many more have gone short-term and
more still are in active transition. However, the
commission to make disciples of the nations was given to
all believers worldwide. In recent years we have seen
dramatic growth in the sending of cross-cultural workers
from countries previously referred to as mission fields.
Believing that
cooperating with the kingdom efforts being initiated in
other countries is God-honoring and a wise use of
resources, under the leadership of the founder, Nelson
Malwitz, Finishers has become involved in assisting
those efforts in appropriate ways. To that end we have
seen God open some amazing doors and develop unique
projects to provide more workers for the harvest.
Australia:
Finishers has
cooperated with Second Wind in Australia to establish a
ministry similar to Finishers, but aimed at their own
people. The web-based matching tools used by Finishers
have been installed on the Second Wind website enabling
them to connect adults with kingdom opportunities. As
the Lord of the Harvest sends out his workers, he is
directing workers from Australia to countries where he
is not directing as many North Americans, locations such
as Myanmar and the South Pacific Islands. We are in
talks with leaders from Britannia, Canada, England and
New Zealand to replicate the matching service in each
country.
Africa:
Another area that has a keen
interest in mission is West Africa, especially Nigeria,
where 20 percent of all Africans live. Their vision is
to recruit, train and deploy 50,000 believers in 15
years time, into North Africa and the Middle East.
Finishers Project
built websites for the mission associations and mission
agencies in Nigeria and Ghana. Our purpose is to enhance
their efforts to communicate a missions vision in those
countries and assist them in connecting their
missionaries with appropriate missions roles in North
Africa and the Middle East.
An understandable reality
to the missions movement in Africa is the lack of
financial resources. For this reason, Finishers is
working to assist leaders in setting up mid to large
sized enterprises in agriculture and water projects to
fund their missionary movements.
Latin America:
Latin America has the luxury of
having a mission industry association, COMIBAM, to cover
all of what they call Ibero-America. This includes those
in Spain, Portugal, Central and South America as well
has Hispanics in North America. Finishers is
partnering with COMIBAM to install a multilingual
matching website that connects people with Latin
American sending organizations. Interestingly, the Latin
peoples have a particular interest in serving among
Muslims. The Lord has placed in their heart a desire to
serve in this part of the 10-40 Window.
Asia:
Finishers Project has developed
a website designed to gather profiles of people in
western nations for matching people with a heart to make
a difference for God with organizations that are
operating in restricted countries in Asia. This is an
unprecedented opportunity to penetrate areas resistant
to the gospel.
Middle East -
Iraq:
Nelson
recently returned from Iraq where he gathered
information about how to participate in nation-building
activities from proposals that are being generated by
USAID, the military and Iraqi nationals in all 18
provinces. The vision of Finishers Project is to help
connect Christ-followers from North America with
opportunities that are being funded by USAID and
Iraq.
Summary
Praise God that He is involving
the nations to go to the nations in his ultimate plan to
fill the earth with the knowledge of the glory of the
Lord as the waters cover the seas.
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Helping
Boomers with their Parent-Child
Relationships
How do
you have those heart-to-heart conversations concerning
when an aging parent should stop driving or hire a
caregiver? One provider has found that fully one third
of adults have trouble communicating with their
parents about sensitive subjects related to aging. They
suggest that when a person turns 40, or their
parents are 70, this type of conversation needs to
start. One of the key reasons behind this type of
dialogue is to help keep seniors safe from misuse of
medications, self-neglect, accidents and other issues
that can be prevented through better
communication.
From
the Finishers perspective, we believe such
adult-to-adult conversations also need to take place
regarding the possibility of future missions-related
roles. This communication needs to be on a peer-level
relationship, while at the same time listening to and
respecting the parent's concerns and issues. To abandon
them and not listen is not an appropriate option for us.
There is no one correct answer for this issue. Each
family needs to seriously seek out the communication
times and manners through which they can arrive at the
correct answers for their situation. The important issue
is to dialogue together, not just assume all will be
well because we want to serve the Lord with our latter
years.
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A Couple of Event Reminders -
Dallas Finishers
Forum: Our next Finishers Forum will
be November 7-8 at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship, 4141
International Parkway, Carrollton, TX (Dallas area).
Have you attended one yet? If not, we highly
recommend it! Make plans now to be part of this
dynamic weekend. If you have attended, who do you know
in Texas that should be there? Here's the
registration link:http://www.finishers.org/texas/reg_tx.php
The Journey
Deepens Retreat: Two events are
planned -- one in Pasadena, CA, and one in Atlanta, GA.
These weekends will deepen your relationship with Jesus
and help you explore
what it is like to be a missionary, discover whether a
missionary or sender role is God's fit for you, and
connect with
mission agencies. Click on the links on the left under
"Coming
Events" to learn more or to register.
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Don
Parrott
CEO,The Finishers Project
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