Team Expansion seeks to bring glory to God by partnering with local churches to send and sustain teams of interdependent missionaries to plant churches among the least reached peoples of the world. Launched in 1978 the ministry includes 300 career missionaries that have together baptized over 8,500 people in over 35 countries worldwide. In the process, they've organized nearly 200 new church plants so that these new believers can continue growing in Christ.
However, because of this solid growth, Team Expansion's current home office and training facilities in Louisville, KY, are currently overcrowded and inadequate. They can no longer serve the needs of the growing mission. They must improve their capacity to offer crucial training, services and programs to the missionaries and thousands of faithful partners. Today's missions frontiers demand a solid foundation of prayer and more strategic level of mobilization and preparation. Enter Emerald Hills.
Emerald Hills is Team Expansion's new 61-acre mission campus on the outskirts of Louisville that will include all the critical elements for sending and sustaining workers into His harvest fields for generations to come.
The fulcrum of the new base will be a 7500-square-foot Prayer Center & Atrium building that, long-term, will provide the hub of every facet of Emerald Hills and its focus on unreached people and prayer. Eventually, the campus will include a full retreat center for crowds of up to 150 people to "pray, retreat & learn" more about Christ, His Mission, and their global purpose for helping make that happen. For the immediate future, the Prayer Center & Atrium will also serve as the int'l operations center for Team Expansion's home office staff of 35 recruiters, trainers, pastor-shepherds, and others who help Team Expansion keep growing.
Lakota is participating in a special program that not only underwrites a portion of this first facility, but also creates a permanent Prayer Shelter along one of the prayer trails on the campus, named after our church. Through short-term teams sent to Emerald Hills, our congregation will be able to participate in constructing the prayer shelter while at the same time assisting in the establishment of the 7500-sq-ft building too. By doing so, Lakota is helping strengthen the foundation for world missions outreaches in 35 lands around the globe. For more information on Emerald Hills contact the LCC Mission Team at missions@lakotachristian.org