Adolfo Reyna
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Date: 2026-09-22
Author: Adolfo Reyna / EMI source document
Tags: [emi, latin-america, vision, mission, kingdom, spiritual-family, discipleship, leadership, regional-collaboration]
Status: active reference
Source: Vision_for_Latin_America_final.docx received through WhatsApp; captured from the user's document on 2026-09-22.
EMI Vision and Mission for Latin America
Core vision
Rooted in Matthew 28:18–20, the vision is to see the Kingdom of God and the family of God established among every ethnos—every nation, people, and people group in Latin America.
Jesus' command is not merely to build churches or conduct short evangelistic visits. It is to go, disciple nations, baptize people into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teach them to obey everything Jesus commanded. The Latin American expression of EMI carries this same foundational vision into the region.
Mission: how the vision is carried out
The mission is for a cohesive regional company and spiritual family to work together deliberately to establish lasting expressions of the Kingdom and family of God throughout Latin America. Leaders and families share responsibility for the region, understand one another's assignments, and support one another through:
- Prayer and shared spiritual life.
- Relationships, fellowship, and physical presence.
- Evangelism, discipleship, and development of leaders.
- Business, finances, education, medicine, professional abilities, and practical service.
- Exchange of people, strategies, ideas, experience, and other resources.
- Local and trans-local expressions suited to each nation's gifts, needs, culture, language, and opportunities.
The goal is not simply to preach, visit, or celebrate an isolated ministry. The goal is to establish disciples, relationships, leaders, spiritual families, ministries, sustainable works, and local footholds that can continue to grow after the initial visit.
Corporate family responsibility
The mandate belongs to a company, not to isolated individuals. EMI leaders should be intentional, cohesive, united around one vision, clear about their assignments, and responsible for acting with what they have been given rather than assuming somebody else will carry the work.
Local churches and ministries may retain their own assignments, but those assignments should be understood as part of the larger Kingdom vision rather than as competing visions. Regional families should increasingly own responsibility for their regions instead of depending on one international leader to carry the whole work.
The key question is therefore not only, “What is my ministry doing?” but also, “What are we doing as a family? Is the family advancing? Is the vision entrusted to us continuing as a family vision?”
Leadership development and generational continuity
A central part of the mission is cross-pollination between mature and emerging leaders. Younger leaders should engage mature leaders early, receive wisdom and experience, discover their own value, and be given room to function in Christ before a transition becomes urgent.
Leadership transition should begin while senior leaders can still coach, oversee, affirm, and equip emerging leaders—not only after a senior leader dies. Moses and Joshua, and David and Solomon, illustrate public, intentional, developmental succession: the next leader is affirmed, prepared, equipped, and given a visible place to function so the family can continue forward rather than start over.
The Latin American family should strengthen a culture of continuity across ministries and generations, not individualism centered on one leader's personal strengths.
Regional collaboration and practical Kingdom expression
Regional gatherings should strengthen relationships, clarify assignments, align the vision, and create practical cooperation. Valuable works must not remain isolated in one country while the rest of the family only celebrates them from a distance.
Examples of cross-pollination include:
- Adapting Venezuela's medical work for other Latin American nations with compatible language, economic conditions, regulations, and needs.
- Sending medical personnel or professional teams where permits and relationships make service possible.
- Sharing business opportunities, education, ministry methods, and practical resources.
- Using medicine, business, professional service, and everyday relationships as expressions of Kingdom culture—not treating the Gospel as only a preached message.
- Enabling people who cannot travel to carry the same vision in their local communities through their own gifts, education, relationships, and social setting.
Establishing rather than merely visiting
EMI should look beyond already-established churches and familiar leaders. The family should believe God for new relationships, new believers, new leaders, and new works among people and places where a foundation does not yet exist.
Evangelism is necessary, but it is not the final goal. The intention is to remain committed long enough to establish something that lasts. In the spirit of Romans 15:20, this may include beginning with people who have not previously been reached, building clearly into their lives, and developing a durable spiritual structure rather than only adding to another foundation.
“Own the field” means accepting responsibility and long-term commitment for a nation or city: sending people, building relationships, creating sustainable structures, pursuing appropriate business opportunities, and developing resources that can sustain the work.
Immediate regional priorities
- Establish one shared understanding of the vision and where the family is going.
- Strengthen relationships among regional leaders and families, including the connection between Chiapas and San Luis.
- Align leaders around the vision so they embrace it personally rather than merely understanding it intellectually.
- Begin cross-pollinating ideas, strategies, people, professional abilities, and resources.
- Establish regular regional prayer.
- Strengthen Chile as an existing open door, encouraging the brother already there that he is part of the family and is not alone.
- Begin with a limited number of clear priorities rather than attempting everything at once.
Latin American family gathering
A significant medium- and long-term objective is to develop a Latin American Family Gathering. It should become an expression of the regional family and a catalyst for:
- Vision alignment.
- Relationship and family identity.
- Leadership development and generational transition.
- Prayer.
- Cross-pollination and strategic collaboration.
- Resource sharing.
- Evangelism and outreach.
- Development of the next generation.
The gathering should be more than a one-time event. It should build regional momentum so that the Kingdom message reaches Latin America, people are raised and developed, communities are established, ministries cooperate, teams travel between nations, nations strengthen one another, and isolated leaders know they belong to a family.
Working outcomes from the source discussion
The source discussion identifies three immediate purposes for regional conversations:
- Produce a singular understanding of the vision.
- Understand the mission or assignment of each person and group.
- Find practical places of cohesion and mutual support through prayer, presence, relationships, business, finances, education, and other resources.
The existing EMI Latin America collaboration plan should be read together with this foundational note. The plan already records the Chiapas leaders gathering, monthly regional Zoom meetings, prayer, leader relationships, cross-region reporting, and the longer-term regional family assembly. See Latin America EMI Collaboration 2026.
Source-preservation note
This note is a structured capture of the user's source document, not an independent theological evaluation or a verbatim transcript. The source document's central distinction is preserved:
- Vision: what God desires to see established—the Kingdom and family of God among every ethnos.
- Mission: how the regional family works together to establish that vision through discipleship, relationships, leadership development, practical Kingdom service, regional ownership, and lasting works.