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What is WFI all about?

Team Nehemiah

What is Team Nehemiah?

The Old Testament book of Nehemiah describes how builders of the Jerusalem wall were also its defenders. Most importantly, they were worship leaders who chose to be a part of facilitating His worship by using their lives and skills to build a wall of protection around His city and temple of worship. What most impressed me about this story was how God pulled in people from so many backgrounds to prepare a place for Him to be worshiped. It wasn’t just the priests or the musicians and singers; He used whoever was willing, according to the gifts and skills He had already given them.

Team Nehemiah

Team Nehemiah is our team of ministry partners. The team consists of individuals, groups, and churches. Some give materially. Some pray. Some offer their time and services. Some do a combination of things (including sending me encouraging messages :) ). Really, it’s anyone who is sensing God leading them to partner with and support WFI/Global Impact in preparing a place for God to be worshiped by using anything He has given them.

What does Team Nehemiah do?

We need such a group to build and defend us as we work together to facilitate worldwide worship of God. As with any mission team, we know we are not just a band of 3 staff members, 4 board members, and a varying number of team leaders and members galavanting around the globe playing some tunes. You are an essential part of this ministry. As you help build this ministry with your time and resources, and as you defend what we are building together with your faithful intercession, we believe God will be honored by our collective efforts as He brings more and more people before His throne in worship.

The goal

In this case, bigger really is better! We’re hoping for a minimum of 1000 team members to build and defend Global Impact in particular and WFI as a whole. We know it would be a lot easier administratively to have just a few large-gift donors to cover our expenses, but we really believe the greatest task is prayer…this is where the victor of any spiritual battle is determined.

However, we also need an annual budget of $60,000 to cover both staff support and our growing ministry initiatives. It’s simply a fact in this lifetime that ministries need tangible and quantifiable resources in order to operate. We fully acknowledge God is our supplier, and we want to invite you to join us in this part of His Great Commission.

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POSTED: 12:00 am on Thursday, January 1st, 2009
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    July 15, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    Great site and nice text.

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Team Nehemiah

Team NehemiahWorship Foundations International is inspired by Ezra 3.10-11. When the foundation of the temple had been laid, all the people couldn’t help but stop to praise God with everything they had.

Nehemiah was a contemporary of Ezra. He had the privilege of building the wall that surrounded Jerusalem and the temple of the Lord. Nehemiah and his team weren’t priests or ordained ministers; they were faithful worshipers of the Lord Almighty. They fearlessly honored Him by both building the work and defending it (Nehemiah 4.13-14).

Thank you for being a part of my Team Nehemiah. Because you fearlessly build this work by giving and defend it with your prayer, I am freed spiritually and materially to pour more of my life into mobilizing more and more musicians to become more and more like Jesus.

Where we stand today: 60 people! Only 940 more to go...

Team Nehemiah trusts in the God of Isaiah 60.22 to multiply each person by 1000. Whether measured by senders, goers, or new disciples, our currency is lives, not dollars. Our first goal toward that is to multiply the efforts of my role by 1000 people who are

  1. building Global Impact with their gifts and
  2. defending Global Impact with their prayers.

We don’t just want to gather a crowd; we want to build His army. Besides giving and praying, please encourage like-minded others to join! Even a gift of $5/month or $60/year is helpful, but far more precious than that are your prayers. If your church, fellowship, or small group would like to band together to lend support, let me know. We’ll work together to get you some basic information or set up an appointment for me to come and share the vision. Regardless of our economy, the Kingdom of God is immune to recession when we combine forces for His purposes.

Join the team!

Giving is not a requirement to pray. If you'd like to pray alongside us by receiving these updates directly in your email, just fill out the form below. Once you register, you can log in to adjust your settings. I won't use any contact information provided here for any purpose other than to ask for your continued spiritual fellowship with me in my role as Global Impact coordinator...not even to give to WFI in general! (I honestly don't have time to figure out other things to do with your info, anyway!)

How to subscribe

By using this form below, you will automatically be subscribed to both monthly ministry updates (more detailed-once a month) and weekly prayer requests (bullet points-once a week, excluding update weeks). They'll magically appear in your email inbox whenever I post them, and you can expect at most about one email per week, if I'm on schedule.

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If you'd like more control over what you want to receive (i.e. just one or the other), you'll need to register, then log in to your profile to adjust your subscriptions.

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If you know of someone who might be interested in what WFI is doing through Global Impact, feel free to forward this to them. Please add your own personal note so they won't think I'm spamming them!

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Volunteer opportunities

Definitely a case of "the more, the merrier!" This task is far bigger than I am. While God can do anything, He delights in using His people. If you would like to lend your time, experience, and energy to

  • a networking team (lots of facebooking involved)

or

  • an events team (includes both vision sharing and ministry time)

please let me know! For more details, click here. Contact links are below. Thanks!

Prayer Requests

Not mine...yours! It really is a privilege and honor for me to be involved through prayer with what God is doing in you. Just click on any of the links below to start a conversation!

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Instructions for Donations

All gifts made to Worship Foundations International are tax-deductible. (In other words, gifts made to Josie Leung are NOT tax-deductible.)

To give by mail

To give by check, print this section of the newsletter and return it with your gift to
Worship Foundations International
PO Box 158524
Nashville, TN 37215
We will mail/email receipts and acknowledgements to the contact information supplied here.

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Address:

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Please do not put my name anywhere on the check. By submitting this section with your gift, Chris (our friendly finance guy) will know to direct the funds to my support account. (It's an IRS thing.)

  

To give online

Go to the WFI donation page and select Josie Leung from the dropdown menu to designate a gift to my support account.

We apologize we are not able to handle automatic transfers at this time due to the processing charges. If you would like to make regular gifts automatically, we encourage you to set up a recurring payment through your bank to Worship Foundations International. That way, we can all steer clear of processing charges. As a token of our appreciation for helping us this way, we won't be asking you for any of your personal banking info. ;) Thank you for understanding!