Watersource

Missionary Farm

Missionary Training
and Support Center
By Watersource Ministries
 Our Purpose
• The establishment and management of a
multi-production sustainable farm/ranch for the
comprehensive training of missionaries to:
– Preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ
– To disciple indigenous people globally to then make
disciples themselves
– To instruct and teach missionaries the most advanced,
ecological and sustainable agricultural techniques for
developing communities to utilize their countries soil for
successful food production.
 Community Outreach
• Agriculture training to the community
• Food to the needy
• Food storage program to be used during times
of disaster and family need
• To reach out to the community with the Gospel
through open air preaching, one to one
witnessing with an ‘open door’
• Utilize various products and services of the farm
to become a full or partially self-funding entity
 Market Summary
• Market: past, present, & future:
– Evangelistic – The fulfilling of the
Great Commission is greatly
ignored by most churches in the
US – wide open market…
– Missionary – There are several
mission training programs, but we
have not found any with the
strong emphasis on the Gospel –
wide open market…
– Agricultural – CSA programs
provide local produce to local
people and businesses. Still new
but rapidly growing industry.
There are currently not enough
CSA’s to meet the demands of
the subscribers in northern
Colorado
 Community Sustained Agriculture
(CSA)
• The CSA is a program
where people in a
community pay an annual
subscription (based on
number of persons per
household) for produce
“shares” as they come
available on the farm.
– There are currently not
enough CSA’s in Northern
Colorado to meet the
demand of potential
subscribers.
 “Niche” Agriculture
• The Farm will also
produce “specialty”
produce that will be
available to natural food
stores, super markets,
restaurants and the like.
These things will include:
– Locally harvested honey
– Heirloom and unique
tomatoes and peppers via
greenhouse
– Small goat dairy (part of
CSA)
Goals & Objectives (Agriculture)
• Five-year goals
– Establish CSA
– Establish niche produce and
livestock to NoCo restaurants and
markets
– Revenue from donors, CSA and
missions foundations established
to be self sufficient training
program
– Revenue after cost of program to
be used to sponsor missionaries
in the field
– Establish a food bank to bless
local families in need and
homeless programs
– Establish program to take in
“bumper crops” from other farms
and use food in canning/storage
program in food bank enterprise
 Church Outreach
• The Farm will be available to Bible
based churches for use in special
events
– Baptisms
• Using the Farms large wading pool
or small lake for baptism services.
• Missionary interns and ministry
staff will do all the “behind the
scenes” work such as, preparing
food, playing music, decorating,
etc.
– Weddings
• Using the Farms many rustic views
as the back drop for wedding
services.
• Missionary interns and ministry
staff will do all the “behind the
scenes” work such as, preparing
food, playing music, decorating,
etc.
 Goals & Objectives (Evangelistic)
• Five-year goals
– Continue putting on
“Spiritual Fire Academies”
for local churches and
groups
– Provide Gospel tract
support for Colorado street
outreaches
– Produce Bible based and
evangelism minded
missionaries for the
mission fields that can
witness to an indigenous
person, train them to
witness to their own
people and teach the
Bible.
 Goals & Objectives (Missionary Re-Entry)

• Host missionaries that are on

furlough
– Have furlough missionaries live
on the farm and teach interns
from their experiences
– Help create media for use in
church presentations and
working up donor support
– Help create prayer networks for
missionaries while in field
• Help missionaries reintegrate
when they come out of the
mission field for good.
– Be a transitional place while
family adjusts to way of life
here in States
 Who We Are
• Experienced
evangelists,
apologists,
missionaries, street
preachers, teachers,
and counter-cult
specialists
• Experienced
gardeners, livestock,
pasture and farm and
business managers
 Board of Directors - Accountability

• Steve Bauer – Founder WSM, Evangelist and

street preacher
• Rick Busch – Founder WSM, street preacher
• Paul LaFleur – Founder WSM, street preacher
• Kevin Blankenship – Pastor, Calvary Chapel
Loveland
• Mark Schotten – Evangelist, co-founder
Metanoia Outreach (Denver, 16th Street open –
air ministry)
 The Farm Team
• Steve Bauer (Ministry Director,
Evangelism Training, Bible
Instruction)
– Founder - Watersource Ministries
– Associate Pastor Calvary Chapel
Loveland, CO.
– Experienced paramedic (20 years
field experience)
– Police Chaplain (Loveland PD)
– Evangelist, Bible teacher and street
preacher.
– Instrumental in planting witnessing
teams across Colorado
– Also trained in Critical Incident
Stress Management and Biblical
counseling
 The Farm Team
• Christine Bauer
(Communications Director,
Evangelism Training)
– Grew up in Niger, West
Africa. Spent 20 years in
missions family
– Editor of “Watersource
Newsletter”
– Founder of the Talmudin
Outreach
– Graduate of “The School of
Biblical Evangelism” – Living
Waters
– Graduate Bethel College,
Indiana – BA
Translation/American Sign
Language
 The Farm Team
• Lynn Philpott (Farm/Produce
Manager)
– Crop management, CSA
program oversight and
planning, missionary training
• Experience
– Missionary in West Africa for 20
years, raised a family in Nigeria
and Niger, specialized in water
filtration, conservation and
direction, farming, and general
construction.
– BA Foreign Missions, Moody
Bible Institute
– Certificate Le Tourneau
University – Aircraft and power
plant maintenance
– Trained in agriculture from CSU
and horticulture from Front
Range Community College
 The Farm Team
• Sandi Philpott (Mission
Training Director)
– Intern relations and
admission, missionary
training, healthcare
training
• Experience
– Missionary in West Africa
for 20 years, raised a
family in Nigeria and
Niger, specialized in
education and healthcare.

– BA Christian Education,
Moody Bible Institute
– Bachelor of Nursing,
North Park College,
Chicago, Ill.
 The Farm Team
• Jocelyne Philpott (Manager
Livestock)
– Livestock and dairy
planning/breeding and care,
pasture and soil management
• Experience
– Born in Niger, West Africa.
Grew up in missions family for
20 years.
– BS in Environmental Biology.
– Trained on World Hunger Relief
farm in Texas, learning small
animal and livestock care as
well as management of a small
Raw Goat Milk Dairy
– Trained on an organic cow
dairy in pasture rotation and
dairy management
 The Farm Team
• Jonathan Jolly (Counter Cult
and street Evangelism Training)
– Trained under Bill Honsberger
with Haven Ministries in
counter-cult outreach
– Founder of Reaching Boulder
Outreach and EuroKarma
Gospel tract program
– Developer of “Evangepedia”
and “Ask J” evangelist
database
– Expert in counter cult outreach
– Evangelist, teacher, Bible
teacher
– Member of Metanoia Outreach
in Denver, CO
 Steward Responsibilities
• Missions Farm will be established by:
– Prayer
– Individual blessings to ministry
– Partnerships with ministries and churches
– Earnings from CSA

• As a non-profit ministry, post-operational funds

are utilized for the continued mission of the farm
AND replication of additional farms nationally
and abroad
 Resource Requirements
• Technology requirements
– Ultimately want to be low-tech to reflect the ‘agri-reality’ in developing countries
• Personnel requirements
– Farm Manager
– Ranch Hands
– Mission Education Manager
– Livestock Manager
– Director of Ministry
– Instructors
– Interns
• Resource requirements
– $4,000,000 start up capital
• $1.5-2.0 Million for property
• $2 Million for implementation expenses
• External requirements
– Equipment rental
– Heirloom seeds/Non-GMO seeds
– Livestock purchases
 Risks & Rewards
• Risks
– Believe that there is no risk
when doing something
according to God’s will and
to glorify Him
• It will fail otherwise
• Rewards
– A self-sufficient farm that
will prepare missionaries
for the mission field and to
be Biblical preachers, as
well as a refuge for
returning missionaries to
integrate back into US
society
 Missionary Support Unfulfilled
• The lack of comprehensive missionary training and
support within the Church Body today is extremely
profound.
• Too often believers, usually quite young in age as well as
in their faith, experience and Biblical knowledge are
‘thrown’ into the mission field and are met with extreme
difficulties they were not effectively prepared or trained to
handle.
• An effective preparation of Christian missionaries in
today’s world both in spiritual and practical aspects is
vital to the call of the ‘great commission’ as well as for
their own effectiveness, safety and spiritual well-being.
• Finding such a resource to fulfill this demanding need
throughout the Church body is lacking at best
 Scriptural Significance
• Romans 10:14-17 “How then shall they call on Him in
whom they have not believed? And how shall they
believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how
shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they
preach unless they are sent? As it is written:

– “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of
peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!” But they have not
all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “LORD, who has
believed our report?” So then faith comes by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God.

• Matthew 28:19 Jesus Said, “go therefore and make

disciples of all the peoples, baptizing them in the name
of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
 Objectives
• Our mission is summed up with the 3 word statement on the front of
our website. Preach. Teach. Connect. To fulfill that mission, we
have broken it into 3 phases.

– Phase 1 – Establish locally, within Colorado as an evangelical outreach

that spreads the Gospel message through street evangelism.
• This also serves the purpose of collecting data (video, audio and
experience) to use in teaching others the Biblical method of sharing the
“Good News.” This has taken the form of the Spiritual Fire Academy – a
class that teaches Biblical evangelism (based on the research of Ray
Comfort (author – Hell's Best Kept Secret) and Mark Cahill (author – One
Thing You Can't Do in Heaven)).
• Our website (www.watersourceministries.org) is an integral part of our
outreach to Colorado churches and supporting ministries. We have given
access to our teachings and presentations, as well as Gospel tracts
(printable and video) and sermons given by the preachers of Watersource in
various churches.
 Objectives
• Phase 2 - Help organize, teach and support street
evangelism teams and persons throughout Colorado.
– We have been blessed to help in connecting and even
establishing teams in Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder and Ft.
Collins/Loveland. The team leaders can be contacted via our
website under the “Witnessing in Colorado” link.
– We have also been fortunate to have members of those teams
that also teach Biblical evangelism. This has been great in
facilitating availability of instructors throughout the state. If
someone calls Watersource for a class and they are in an area
that our ministry is not close to, we can refer them to an
instructor in their area.
 Objectives
• Phase 3 involves training a potential missionary for the work of fulfilling the
Great Commission.
– The missionary training center will be operating on a large, working farm. During
the day, the interns will work the farm, learning sustainable agricultural
techniques (seed harvesting, soil mediation, natural farming, animal traction
plowing, etc.) that will equip them to be a part of a third-world community in the
U.S. (ex: Indian Reservations), and/or internationally. They will also sell the
produce grown at the training center to the community through a Community
Sustained Agriculture (CSA) program.
– In the evenings and on weekends, the interns will be given Biblical teaching and
mission-related training.
• This training will cover aspects of missionary work like:
– raising a family in the mission environment,
– going into a new culture for the first time, and
– first aid.
• They will also be thoroughly trained in methods of Biblical evangelism and outreach.
This will help the missionary to be able to teach an indigenous person to share the
Gospel with the members of the community they are on mission to, as well as teaching
the community members to share the Gospel, Biblically, with their own people.
– This will involve training and practice/application in street witnessing, open air preaching,
counter-cult training, as well as verse by verse/in depth study of the Word.
 Objectives
• Phase 3 cont: Support missionaries and various ministries in the
mission field and on furlough.
– The first part of this phase will take a select few interns who complete
the missionary training program and support them financially while they
are in the field.
– The second portion of this phase involves bringing the missionaries
back from the mission field on furlough and allowing them to bring their
experiences back for the purpose of training new interns. These
missionaries would live on the training center grounds during their
furlough.
– The third portion of this phase involves taking missionaries from the field
and helping them reintegrate into American society.
• This seems to be an area neglected by the Body in the US and one which
we intend to address
– The missionary training and support center will be located in Colorado at
a place that would incorporate all portions of the above described
training. We will call this place "The Farm."