EStar Global
Through the work of God’s Spirit, this movement has grown from 13 churches in 2016 to over 4,000 today. In every village where the volunteer church planters go, people are coming to Christ and forming house churches.
A district church is established in a central location once an entire district has been reached. As new believers are trained, they become evangelists, going to these villages weekly for 26 weeks to teach and disciple new believers. Baptisms are held in a central location and often see more than 2000 people baptized in a single day.
One of the things that makes this movement unique is a database that tracks every new believer from their initial desire to follow Jesus through their discipleship journey, baptism and growth to becoming a leader. When someone first responds to the Gospel, the team takes their picture with a smart phone, uploads it in the database, then geotags it to identify their location. This begins the recording of their spiritual journey.
- 50% of those who respond to the gospel are attending a house or district church and 52% of those attending church have been baptized. On average, it takes 80 days from believing in Jesus to being baptized.
- There were no baptisms in 2021 due to COVID.
- The data on house churches, members, new believers in Jesus, and those baptized has been verified through surveys through 2023.
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