The Middle East is a recent and unprecedented area for the ministry. Already, more than 21,000 leaders are in training. Even war-torn Lebanon is currently being served by EQUIP.
Camille Melki, a Lebanese pastor and EQUIP's country coordinator for Lebanon, is currently stranded in the United States after having traveled out of his country before war broke out for meetings with EQUIP leaders. According to Melki, pastors trained by EQUIP are now involved throughout Lebanon in relief work, "showing the love of Christ."
In addition to the hard-to-reach 10/40 window, EQUIP also expects to train half a million leaders in the Chinese church over the next three years.
Conferences have been held in 94 of the world's 227 countries in less than four years, according to the report. And financial support, mainly from individuals along with churches, has paralleled with the growth of global leaders. In the past year, support grew from $6.12 million to $8.13 million. As the report stated, all fundraising and office administrations costs are covered by the EQUIP Board of Directors and 100 percent of all other donations go directly to the training of leaders.
Atema attributed the growth and blessings experienced in the past decade to the strategic ministry partnerships.
"What makes this group so unique, is that each ministry is willing to do whatever it takes to work together, to make significant movement in making this a reality," he said.
Maxwell's dream to train one million effective Christian leaders has now become a movement toward millions of leaders.
"God's wonderful favor and the generosity of our friends have taken EQUIP from a dream to a global ministry enhancing the effectiveness of millions of Christian leaders," said Maxwell.