Cape Verde, West Africa

Identified this people as less than 2% evangelized with no current evangelical group engaged.
Arrived and met several local believers and one pastor, with a heart to reach their people but no one to train them.
Focus on Main Island of Sao Tiago for first 9 months.
Inception Team deployed in late March, 2013 to lay foundational work with Mission Pastor.
Deploy “Instigators” every 90 days for first 18 months to train nationals and strengthen evangelism and discipleship infrastructure.
Begin adding Islands, one by one, sending nationals in as Instigators by month 9. Currently, gospel work has moved to four (4) more islands, of nine (9) fully indigenously.
Minimize “White face” influence to “Zero” on other islands.
Begin exit strategy once 3rd generation of churches was seen. Exit strategy has begun, effective August 1, 2018. Will spend 18-24 months completing this phase with emphasis on reproducibility and releasing of new churches and deploying trained leaders to other new fields in nations of influence among Cape Verdians.
Burden from Cape Verdians to target unreached people groups in Senegal, Guinea Bissau and northern Portugal.

Team trips will be 8 days on the ground, 2 travel days.
Team sizes will be 4-7 max, plus Team Leader, Translators and Nationals.
Typical cost per team member is $2,800 for air and ground
Team Travel Months are March-September.
Training Required: Prior to deployment: 9 weekly, 1 ½ hour meetings in Cross Cultural and CPM/Instigator training.
All teams have been ceased in mid 2018 due to rapid movement achieved by local workers and three (3) churches have reached 3rd generation reproducibility. PRAISE THE LORD!!!