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The SEND: 2.O coming to Argentina, Brazil and then Kansas City.

Saturday February 23 rd , 2019 is a day for the history books. Upwards of sixty-thousand people came to Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida for The Send, a collaborative, multi-ministry gathering designed to inspire and equip the church to fulfill Christ’s Great Commission.

In an incredible show of unity, dozens of ministries joined forces to make The Send a reality. Speakers such as CfaN Lead Evangelist Daniel Kolenda, Francis Chan, Bill Johnson, Lou Engel, Todd White, Mike Bickel, Michael Koulianos, Andy Byrd, Teo Hayashi, Heidi Baker, and many others emboldened the audience with biblical truth and impartations of the Holy Spirit. As Evangelist Kolenda told the capacity crowd, “If you go without the power, you’ll have nothing to give.”

Hillsong Young & Free, Jeremy Riddle, Jesus Culture, Tasha Cobbs, Lindy, and the Circuit Riders, Stephanie Gretzinger, Darwin Hobbs, Matt Gilman, and Dunamis Music led the massive crowd in God’s presence-soaked praise and worship. All told, The Send was positively mind-blowing.

Building on the success of The Send Orlando, these like-minded ministries have set their collaborative sights on not one, but three simultaneous events in Brazil on February 8th, 2020. Three stadium events on the same day! To put it mildly, the undertaking is huge.

The next event is scheduled for Feb. 2020 in Brazil

Evangelist Daniel Kolenda preaching a powerful message in Orlando,FL at The Send.

Evangelist Daniel Kolenda preaching a powerful message in Orlando,FL at The Send.

But, according to Evangelist Kolenda, it’s well worth the effort. For CfaN, The Send is a clear expression of Evangelist Kolenda's vision to see a "Decade of Double Harvest" over the next ten years. Over the past forty years, CfaN has led more than 78 million people to Jesus. But, as populations around the world soar, there’s a strong sense that it is time to double down. So, Evangelist Kolenda and the CfaN team are strategizing on how to win twice as many people to Jesus over the next ten years as the ministry has in the last forty. A central role in The Send is part of that strategy. As he told a group of pastors just before the Orlando gathering, “Every leader involved with the event recognizes that no single ministry can do it alone. If we are going to see our loved ones, friends, neighbors, communities living life for Jesus; then every leader, congregation, organization, group, and an individual has to be all in. Jesus didn’t send a few select people. He sent all of us. The Send is all about catalyzing the whole body of Christ to act. History will look back at The Send and say it changed our generation.” Motivated by their laser-focus on evangelism, Evangelist Kolenda and the CfaN team led the charge on the event’s organization. CfaN is headquartered in Orlando and the team was thrilled to help ignite a fresh passion for evangelism in their own "backyard." Accordingly, CfaN hosted a table where they shared how anyone could connect with the ministry, serve overseas, and take part in this Spirit-led movement. They also gave away more than 30k copies of Kolenda's book Unlocking the Miraculous – a text he wrote specifically to help spark a mass movement of prayer and evangelism.

The efforts of all those involved paid off. Nearly 3,000 people made first time decisions to follow Christ in response to Evangelist Kolenda's morning address. Tens of thousands more committed to evangelize their communities throughout the day-long event. Above all else, these fresh pledges reveal the heart behind the epic gathering: to spark the greatest era of evangelism and missions in church-history. CfaN has every intention to be just as involved as The Send embarks on its 2020 strategy. The Send plans to fill both Morumbi Stadium and Allianz Parque Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, as well as Brasília National Stadium in the nation’s political capital city, Brasília. If every Christ-follower in Brazil brought one person to Jesus this year, the Church would grow by more than 46 million people! The Send plans to make it as easy as possible for Brazilian believers to do exactly that. And CfaN is going to help every step of the way.

Amazingly, that isn’t all! In addition, The Send will continue the momentum that began in Orlando and fill Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Kansas in October of 2020. Arrowhead stadium holds 75,000 people and is known by Kansas City Chiefs fans everywhere as “the loudest stadium in America.” The Send plans to put that nickname to good use lifting up the high praises of the King above every king, Jesus Christ!

Go to the SEND.ORG today to learn more and to register for the upcoming events in Brazil, Argentina and/or Kansas City, KS.