In 1977, Ed Cole signed CMN’s incorporation papers with my mom and me. Mom and Dad were risking it all to pursue a God-given dream by faith. Our entire family was involved. Dad resigned his position as a pastor. In his mid-fifties, he followed God's leading and launched out into the deep.
We knew the Lord’s anointing was on discipling men. We knew God’s Spirit moved when Dad “Majored in Men in Ministry.” To many it seemed foolhardy but he knew he was following the Lord ...
Dad used to walk the beach whenever he was home from ministry engagements. He would call out to God for wisdom, anointing, favor….and he would call out to men in the nations of the world. From the end of a harbor jetty, far from people’s ears and hidden by the morning fog, he’d shout, “Hear me, men in New Zealand! Hear me, men in Mexico!” On and on, nation by nation.
People think Dad would be surprised to see how far this ministry has gone in 50 years. Thrilled yes, not surprised. As Walt Disney’s wife said when Disney World opened five years after Walt’s death, “He already saw it.”
Dad saw it. He already saw men like you and me carrying on the mission.
With generosity and encouragement from men like Wes Callahan, Ben Kinchlow, Raymond Meza, and others, both famous and not, Dad launched CMN. Those men are gone today. Yet their work lives on. Because CMN is generational.
I’m asking you today to look beyond this lifetime.
What can you put in motion today that your children will see happen tomorrow?
A Christian Middle East? A global end to slavery? A resurgence of the dignity of fatherhood? Powerful churches across the nations?
This is our opportunity and our privilege today as men of faith.
I'm asking for your help to send resources for the Middle East — and not just for today. We’re sowing into the sons and daughters, the next generation, who benefit from their dad's transformed lives today.
A third generation after Joshua's great victories didn't know his heroic stories. Tragic. Let us not fail so that “another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done” (Judges 2:10).
Our Christian brothers in the Middle East are refusing to retreat, even under tremendous pressure. They are standing. They are preaching Christ. They are discipling men. The men are discipling their children.
The pastors and leaders we are equipping are building husbands, fathers, and leaders to strengthen the Church for generations.
I’m asking you to consider not just what you can do for them today… but what you can invest into them and their children… for the future.
Please consider making the most generous gift you’ve ever made to get CMN books into the hands of the Arabic-speaking nations of the world.
Translations, artwork, everything is ready and paid for. And now… it’s time to print books and conduct training sessions.
The leaders are waiting… August is our deadline.
The whole CMN brotherhood is grateful to the Lord for 50 years of reaching men around the world…Argentina, Vietnam, Mongolia, Costa Rica… thankful for God's transforming power in men's lives from generation to generation.
Now, today, let us be the men who reach the Arabic speaking men of the world. Let us press into truly Dangerous Faith. How amazing is this, that we have the opportunity to reach these men…. Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Morocco, Saudi Arabia...
Ed Cole prayed for them. We are the men privileged to be the answer to those prayers. It's generational.
We are CMN, we rescue men.
For the Kingdom,
Grace and Peace,
Paul Louis Cole
