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ABOUT THE INITIATIVE The 6° Initiative is a church planting gospel movement focused on the unreached people groups just 6° north of the equator in West Africa. The sixth degree spans across the balmy African coast that has been impacted most by voodoo and its exportation of precious human life through the slave trade. Satan’s stronghold on these unreached people groups is extremely powerful. These people must be liberated by the transforming message of the Gospel. Jesus is the only answer. We, as Converge missionaries, are partnering with national leaders among the Gen and Watchi people groups. We are working in church planting and leadership development in Aneho, Togo and Ouidah, Benin, the least reached cities of the region. Concentrated church planting movements within these culturally significant cities are serving as launching pads for ministry into smaller communities.
ON THE HORIZON The Converge missionaries in Togo and Benin are trusting God for 190,000 disciples from ten unreached and unengaged people groups in southern Togo and Benin. We believe that this will be accomplished through our projects. 6DI’S FIVE PROJECTS
• Togo Church Planting
• Benin Church Planting
• Togo Palms
• Deaf Ministry
• Vocational Training
PLANS TO ACCOMPLISH THE VISION Our focus for 2020 will be on laying a foundation for scalability. Because we believe God’s plans for the 6DI is bigger than any one missionary or leader, we are committed to leadership multiplication. In the next 12 months, we will develop and put into motion systems and processes that will allow our ministry to grow at the pace God chooses rather than being limited to what a particular leader can handle.
STEPS FOR THE PLAN • Establishing 2 TTI training centers to focus on disciples making disciples. • Developing a church leadership development structure to help Togolese and Benin church leaders be more effective. • Clarifying and decentralizing the orientation process so we can see 40-50 partners come in over the next 5 years. • In 2020, we will focus on adding ten churches to the consortium. • We will also raise $60,000 in support in 2020 to resource capital projects, support new missionary partners and send teams and interns. • God has blessed us with a strategic partnership with Sioux Falls Seminary where this year we will see our first group of leaders, both national and expat, enrolled in the MDiv program there.
6DI ANNUAL BUDGET CONVERGE
OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
10%
14% NATIONAL TRAINING TOTAL INCOME
60,000
$
TEAM TRAINING
9% 7%
TOTAL EXPENSES
60,000
$
90%
70%
MINISTRY PARTNERS
CHURCH PLANTING CONVERGE
OPERATIONA SUPPORT
10%
NATIONAL TRAINING TOTAL INCOME
60,000
$
TEAM TRAINING
90% MINISTRY PARTNERS
9% 7%
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ABOUT THE LEADERS JJ Alderman leads the 6 Degree Initiative. JJ’s journey to Togo began in 1989, where he lived from the age of six until he began college. At the age of seventeen, he felt he should spend his life reaching those that have never heard the gospel. The call was clear; he needed to go back to Togo. In 2004, JJ married the love of his life, Melissa. She also felt the call to the mission field, and together they moved to Togo five years later, in 2009. God has been using them and their three daughters during the past 11 years to reach the unreached in West Africa. As the team continues to grow, JJ has the unique opportunity to lead each of the Project Leaders that God has called to join the initiative. The 6 Degree Initiative strives to shine the light of the Gospel in one of the darkest of places in the world, the birthplace of voodoo.
WAYS TO GET INVOLVED PRAY • Sign up to receive monthly updates • Join our weekly online prayer meeting GIVE • Adopt a project • Give to the 6 Degree Initiative
JOIN OUR TEAM • Through short-term trips (2 weeks), summer internships (2 months), or becoming a long-term worker (5 years), you can partner with us to reach more people for the Kingdom.
jja@converge.org 6degreeinitiative.org converge.org