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NEW
(May 13, 2013): Learn More about Israel's 10 Lost Tribes and
their Diaspora in Europe Here: "A
Means To An End" (New)
Ireland
Diaspora Mission Photos from Oct 15-23 2010! (added
Nov. 15 2010)-Scroll down.
IRELAND
DIASPORA MISSION PHOTOS from Oct 13-22 2011 trip!
16
photos of Pastors Rev. Steve and Rev. Mrs. Tracy Coates in
Ireland, Oct. 13-22, 2011 CLICK HERE- This
Photo-collection was updated on this website Nov 7/11

Watch
our Diaspora Missions Interview Video below (shot and edited by
Keith Campbell.)
Click
here to see this video on Youtube
Diaspora
Missions:
Church
On The GO

New
photo above- Pastors Steve and Tracy on Irish Mission Oc 16-23
2010 The Castle @ Carrickfergus - photo taken by Pastor David
Calvert (photo added Nov 15
2010)

Above-
Rev. Jackie McArthur (left) from Northern Ireland with Pastor
Rev. Stephen Coates and wife Pastor Rev. Mrs. Tracy Coates –
photo added June 5th 2010

Above-Left
to right- Cecil Coates, Rev. Jackie McArthur, Pastor Emeritus
Rev. Marg Coates, Pastor Rev. Stephen Coates – Photo added
June 5th 2010
Scroll
to the bottom of the page for more new photos!
CHURCH
ON THE GO – OUR VISION
THE
LOCAL CHURCH: Is a spiritual family of those "Born from
Above" (See 1Pet. 2:9-10; Acts 9:31; Mark 3:13-15; John
3:7) Gen. 18:19 KJV says: “ For I know him, that he will
command his children and his household after him, and they shall
keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the
LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.”
SHORT
TERM MISSIONS: Now is God’s time for the indigenous
peoples and their diaspora to bless, pray,
encourage and support missionary outreach.(See Acts 1:8; KJV)
RECOVERING
GENERATIONAL BLESSING: “For though ye have ten
thousand instructors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many
fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the
gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my
beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you
into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach
every where in every church.” [1 Corinthians
4:15-17; KJV]
Defining
Diaspora Missiology:
The
Seoul Declaration on Diaspora Missiology
November
14, 2009
Convening
as missions leaders, mobilizers, educators, trainers, and kingdom
workers in the diaspora at the Lausanne Diaspora Educators
Consultation on November 11-14, 2009 in Seoul, Korea - in
partnership with and an extension of the Lausanne Diaspora
Strategy Consultation held in Manila, Philippines on May 4-8,
2009
We
Acknowledge
That
the sovereign work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the
gathering and scattering of peoples across the earth is a
central part of God's mission and redemptive purposes for the
world.
That
the church, which is the body of Christ, is the principal means
through which God is at work in different ways around the globe.
We honor the uniqueness, dignity, and beauty in each person and
culture, celebrating the collaboration of the church with the
broader society.
That
"diaspora missiology" has emerged as a biblical and
strategic field of missiology and is defined as: a missiological
framework for understanding and participating in God’s
redemptive mission among people living outside their place of
origin.
We
Affirm
That
our missional focus and ministry integrates and cooperates with
the mission and vision of the Lausanne movement for world
evangelization as published in The Lausanne Covenant and The
Manila Manifesto.
That
although we draw from various disciplines, our understanding and
practice of the mission of God must be informed by, integrated
with, and conformed to biblical and theological foundations.
We
Appeal
To
the whole people of God in local churches and church movements,
mission agencies, the academy, and the marketplace to mobilize,
train, deploy, support, work together with, and empower
"diaspora kingdom workers" for the diaspora fields
ripe for harvest.
To
church and mission leaders to recognize and respond to
opportunities in world evangelization presented by the realities
of the global diaspora.
To
missions leaders and educators to give strategic priority in the
funding and training of personnel and to provide space for the
development of "diaspora missiology" in training
systems and curricula.
To
the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into the harvest
and raise up worldwide intercession for an unprecedented move of
the Holy Spirit so that the
Whole Church takes the Whole Gospel to the Whole World.
LCWE
Diaspora Educators Consultation 2009 Torch
Trinity Graduate School of Theology Seoul,
South Korea November
11-14, 2009
www.lausanne.org/documents/seoul-declaration-on-diaspora-missiology.html
Learn
more about the Consultations
on Diaspora Missions
www.lausanne.org/diaspora-2009/consultation-on-diaspora-missions.html

Diaspora
Missions
Our
History
Our
Call
Our
Vision
Our
Purpose
Diaspora
Missions – Our History
My
name is Stephen Coates – raised in a Christian Canadian
family, Saved during a Faith Missions – children’s
and youth school @ Brown Hill Sunday School hosted by my mother
Rev. Mrs. Margaret I. Coates and her associate Ms. White, and
assisted by my father Cecil Coates.
During
my high school years, I heeded the “Call Of God” to
reach the lost @ any cost! In June 1973 – I began my first
Christian mission trip to Europe and the former Soviet Union.
This began a mission focused life which has continued – and
still in contact with many I met during those early years until
the present time of this writing April 27th, 2009.
This will soon to be 36 years in full time Christian Ministry
Service – all glory and honor be to God.
Since
that early beginning, I have served a number of local churches
and mission agencies – which has taken me to almost three
dozen countries.
The
greatest decision in this walk of Faith, not including my initial
and progressive Salvation experience – was to marry Tracy
Lynn Collingwood – on June 25th, 1983 in
Hamilton Ontario, Canada. Tracy and I are blessed by God to have
two grown children – our adult son Jason and our teen-age
daughter Janelle Coates.
During
the year of 1995 – we responded to the “Call Of God”
– to transplant Brown Hill Community Church – to what
is now known as Church On The GO (www.churchonthego.ca)
in Newmarket, Ontario,
Canada. This is where we continue to serve as the Lead and
Executive Pastors until the present time.
Diaspora
Missions – Our Call
During
one of our regular Thursday night renewal meetings in 1999 @
www.churchonthego.ca,
Brother Joe Turco had brought several Charismatic Catholic
sisters with him to this service. Following the preaching –
we had a time of personal prayer ministry, and one of these
sisters – Cathy Piccone – had one word from the Lord
for us: DIASPORA

Northern Ireland 2010- Photo By Tracy Coates- Photo taken on the
Northern Ireland or Ulster coastline between Ballycastle - and
the Giant's Causeway (Photo added Nov.15 2010)
At
the time we did not really even know the full extent of the
word’s meaning. In the Bible it is used as:
Lexicon
Results
Strong's
G1290 - diaspora
διασπορά

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Prior
to 1999, Pastor Tracy’s mother, Mrs. Dorothy Collingwood,
had passed away on April 24th, 1994. It was at that
time Pastor Tracy began to search out her family history. In the
meantime, I was involved in mission travel outside north America
to the Bosnian and Croatian war frontier during 1995. In 1997
Pastor Tracy and I returned to eastern Europe via Frankfurt and
Salzburg in mission travel to the Czech Republic and the former
East Germany. Pastor Tracy also visited Israel, but we did not
find the spiritual significance to this word Diaspora.

In
the year 2000, Pastor Tracy was telephoned and invited to
participate at a women’s conference at Dublin City
University called - Beyond The Edge - by Pastor June Richards –
President of “Deborah Arise Europe” out of
Manchester, England. So we began to do our research and prepared
to attend. It was during this time that we found that our
families both emigrated from Ireland during the 1800’s.

Above- Taken at one of Jackie's Culture Meetings-
from Oct 16-23 2010 mission trip. Photo taken in Bangor - Pastors
Steve and Tracy with Jackie and his colleague Lawerence (Photo
added Nov.15 2010)
Irish
diaspora
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'Emigrants
Leave Ireland', engraving by Henry Doyle (1827-1892), from Mary
Frances Cusack's Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868
The
Irish diaspora
(Irish:
Diaspóra
na nGael)
consists of Irish
emigrants
and their descendants in
countries such as the United
Kingdom,
the United
States,
Canada,
Australia,
Argentina,
New
Zealand,
Mexico,
South
Africa,
Brazil
and states of the Caribbean
and continental Europe. The
diaspora,
maximally interpreted, contains over
80 million people,
which is over fourteen times the population of the island of
Ireland itself (6.11 million in 2007)
[1].
Ontario
has over 2 million people
of Irish descent, who in greater numbers arrived in the 1820s and
the decades that followed to work on colonial infrastructure and
to settle land tracts in Upper Canada, the result today is a
countryside speckled with the place names of Ireland. Ontario
received a large number of those who landed in Quebec during the
Famine years, many thousands died in Ontario's ports. Irish-born
became the majority in Toronto
by 1851.
Pastor
Tracy can directly trace her ancestry back to Carlow County,
Ireland – through Mark and Ann Scanlon. In fact Pastor
Tracy today still has distant relatives living in Belfast, N.
Ireland. Here is a brief history of Mark Scanlon – who
homesteaded one mile from our house – and today is buried
one mile north of our home in Bradford, West-Gwillimbury,
Ontario, Canada. Pastor Tracy’s – grandmother
Florence (Scanlon) Green – was the last child born in the
Scanlon house which today stands on the Scanlon Creek
Conservation area one mile north of our house. Note below …
“At
an early date also, two notable settlers took up lots in the
ninth concession - John Thorpe and Mark
Scanlon;
the former, S. half lot 17, con. 9, the latter, S. half lot 16,
con. 9. Both men were partly advanced in years when they came,
but active. Thorpe, in course of time, became crippled with hard
work and even palsied; but infirm and palsied though he was, he
once shouldered his gun and shot a large bear that ventured to
trespass on his crops.
They
went into mill operations soon after their arrival, and, in
accordance with the Government policy of the day to grant mill
sites, they received grants of land for mills on the stream. They
built a grist mill in 1824 or 1825 on shares. About the year 1832
they dissolved partnership, and Mr. Scanlon, alone, then
built a sawmill, and afterwards another. The first sawmill was
equipped with an old-fashioned "gate-saw," which was
one of the earliest kinds of saws adapted to motive power, the
driving power in this case being water power, as everywhere else
at the time.

Above photo added Nov 15
2010 – Pastors Steve and Tracy in front of the Peace Wall
dividing the Shankhill and Falls - in Belfast, Northern Ireland
or (Ulster) - from Diaspora Missions Trip October 15 - 23rd, 2010
Others thought Thorpe &
Scanlon were making money at this business, so opposition mills
were established on the same stream. There were on it as many as
six sawmills at one time, owned as follows: - Mr. Mackie (whose
mill, Mr. Woods ran for a time), Mr. Scanlon (two mills),
George Thorpe, Enos Rogers, Issac Rogers (whose mill passed into
the hands of Zachariah Evans). The railway company once
established a flag station by the name of Scanlon, where
the track crosses this useful stream, but afterwards abandoned
its use. Mr. Scanlon was a native of the County Carlow,
Ireland, was made a justice of the peace in 1847, and died June
26th, 1871, aged 74 years.”
As
we prepared to return to Ireland in September 2000, to the best
of our knowledge no one from our family had returned to Ireland
in seven generations – since Mark and Anne Scanlon left
Carlow County in 1823 (even though I had been once before that on
a mission trip in 1979). One Sunday night we visited the graves
of Mark and Anne Scanlon – one mile north of our house and
picked up rocks and other things – to prepare for prophetic
action and a memorial return to Ireland. Their departure from
Ireland had preceded the potato famine, and we wanted to return
to Carlow as a Godly remnant who had returned.

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It
was from this passage of scripture the Holy Spirit spoke to me
with revelation for sister Dominique Francois – from who I
had received the following Prophetic word – prior to our
intended trip to Dublin in September 2000.
IRELAND!
PUT ON THE GARMENTS OF PRAISE!
Dominique
Francois
Feb
15, 2000
Although
I have been a born again Christian for 30 years and in this
prophetic renewal for many, I have never ever received a vision
and a word like the one God seized me with for Ireland this
morning.
As
I was listening to the song "O, consuming fire", I saw
the map of Europe circled by a high and thick wall, like a
fortified city. Coming from the sea, I saw the stem of a big ship
- (ice-breaker-type thing) only much bigger, knocking this wall
down and making a breakthrough in Europe through Ireland.
I
said : "God, are you going to bring a revival or a renewal
to Ireland?" He answered : "No. Revival or renewal are
not adequate words for what I am about to do in this country. It
is going to be an outburst, an explosion, an invasion of my
Spirit in the land of Ireland. All they have known for decades is
civil war, terrorism, bombs, bullets, explosions, slaughters
which were the works of the enemy because satan knows what an
exceptional destiny I have for the Irish people, but now I come,
I come with might and power, I come with glory and splendour, I
come with a divine explosion."
Then
the Lord led me to listen to the first song of "REVIVAL IN
BELFAST" (Hosanna Music) and the sobs of the Father's heart
for Ireland seized me with violence. The lyrics say :
"PUT
ON THE GARMENTS OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS LET THE OIL
OF GLADNESS FLOW DOWN FROM YOUR THRONE."
Ireland,
REJOICE! The Lord of glory is coming to you in an unprecedented
explosion of his manifest presence and all of Europe will be
impacted and in awe of what the God has done for you.
"When
the Lord brought back the captive ones of Zion, we were like
those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter and our
tongue with joyful shouting. Then they said among the nations,
the Lord has done great things for them, the Lord has done great
things for us, we are glad." (PS. 126).
May
this word stir up your hearts, renew your courage and hope and
enlarge your vision. We cannot fathom what God is about to do.
In
his wonderful love, Ms Dominique Francois, Paris, France
REFERENCES
FOR: Dominique Francois Sylvia Epifanic - My pastor who gave me
the green light
Diaspora
Missions – Our Vision
As
I began to meditate and pray in to the vision sent to me from Ms.
Dominique Francois, I found the Holy Spirit – speaking to
me about the ship.
To
our complete surprise Ms. Dominique Francois and her Pastor
Sylvia Epifanic also attended the conference in September 2000 @
Dublin City University.
At
the very end of the conference – Pastor Tracy introduced me
to the two sisters from Paris. It was at that point that I asked
sister Dominique if there was any markings on the ship coming out
of the north Atlantic?
Our
sister said; Oh no, it was just a big gray ice breaker type of a
ship. So at that point I asked our sister, do you have any Irish
blood in your background? Oh, no – 100% French blood. I
then explained using Psalm 126 – and that most people who
left Ireland, departed weeping. Verses 5 – 6 state:
Those
who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!
He
who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall
come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
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At
that point I explained to sister Dominique that now was Ireland’s
time in God. The Call was going out in the Spirit realm for the
Godly remnant to return and help reap the harvest. The ship that
she saw was the Gospel ship – bringing the Godly remnant
back to assist in the harvest.
As
soon as I had spoken this – our sister fell over backwards
under the power of the Holy Ghost. Her Pastor knelt beside her in
prayer – and when she arose, she told us – that is a
word from God.
We
have had many similar experiences. An Assemblies Of God pastor
from Maine, had sent out an email asking for assistance. He said
he could not understand why – every time he started praying
he could hear Irish music playing. So I telephoned him, I told
him that he did not know me but that I had read his email and had
insight as to why he was hearing this Irish music. Before I gave
the explanation, I asked him the same question I had asked sister
Dominique at Dublin City University, do you have any Irish blood
in you? This pastor answered yes, on my mother’s side. Then
I told him that I had a word from God for him, the reason you
hear Irish music is because you are hearing the CALL!
His
voice began to quiver as he asked for more explanation, I told
him that now is Ireland’s time in God, and the call is
going out to the Godly remnant of the Irish Diaspora – to
return home and assist in the harvest. At that point I heard this
tremendous banging, as the telephone began banging against his
desk. After some time he composed himself and told me that this
type of experience had never happened to him before in his entire
life. This pastor agreed that indeed God was sending out the
CALL!

New photo
above- added Nov 15 2010- an unplanned, God-appointed meeting
with with - Ballycastle Sea Fisherman Christopher P. Mc Caughan -
in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland off the Scottish Coast Wednesday
October 20th, 2010
Our
vision for Diaspora Missions – is not just to return in
ministry ourselves to Ireland, but to stir up all diaspora groups
for world missions. Now is your incredible opportunity, you have
not passed this way before. Never in World history has this
possibility been so great for the average person to participate
in the harvest of souls for the Kingdom of God!
Diaspora
Missions – Our Purpose
Encourage
others to facilitate and/or participate in this spiritual
harvest for world missions!
Equip
and educate other Diaspora groups about the incredible mission
opportunities available to them!
Exhort
and stir up missionaries who have family and language abilities
from their homelands, not to waste what God has given them, but
to stir these gifts up for God, and participate – jump
into the harvest, even if it is only on a short-term mission
basis. This can be made a yearly pilgrimage home to their roots,
for the tremendous purpose of world evangelization.
Engage,
examine and excite team partnerships for the diaspora to
participate in the harvest and in world missions.
Conclusion
You
will note that our logo – is a Red Maple Leaf – on
top of a Green Shamrock. These two leaves are emblems of the two
countries, for which we are naturally connected. These two
emblems are easily inter-changeable, depending on the diaspora
and or country which you may represent.
May
God stir your hearts from this endeavor to reach the lost in your
homelands for Jesus Christ.
Available
Translations and Versions for Romans 10:13



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Finally,
as I thank God for taking me to almost as many countries (thirty
six) as years that I have spent in full time Christian ministry,
we have now completed seven DIASPORA Mission trips to the island
of Ireland, and will now begin to plan for another through the
power of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Pastors
Rev. Stephen and Rev. Mrs. Tracy Coates
Church
On The GO
Contact
Email: pastorsteveonthego@hotmail.com
 
New Photo
Above-Pastors Steve and Tracy - in the Belfast Cathedral - St.
Ann's on Tuesday October 19th during our Diaspora Missions Trip
Oct. 15-23, 2010 (Photo taken by Desmond) (Photo
added Nov 15 2010)
Here
are More Photos added June 5th 2010:

Above: Jason
Coates (left), with Irish heritage, stands beside Rev. Jackie
McArthur, from Northern Ireland holding Irish flags.

Above- Jackie
teaches Biblically in word and in song, and often moves into
prophetic songs of the Spirit.

Above- Jackie
teaching some of the history of Ireland at CHURCH ON THE GO. He
shows us some of the slides and material he teaches to his people
back home.

Above- Jackie
connects his netbook to our projector and shows the congregation
a historical video that captures some of the turmoil and conflict
in Ireland.
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MAP OF IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND

IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND ON WORLD MAP (Marked with Green
Shamrock)


Here
are a few lessons that I have learned over the years - hopefully
they can help you succeed in your call as well!
DIASPORA
MINISTRY STRATEGIES FOR IRELAND Both
for the Republic and Ulster 1.
RESEARCH
AND RESOURCE - Once
you have direction from God to visit Ireland - PREPARE - do some
research!
You
may be part of the Irish Diaspora - but do not expect that you
understand what God is doing in Ireland today
You
may have a message for Ireland - but more likely you will become
the message after you have been there several times
Your
people may have left over political or religious divisions - do
some research, for us coming from Canada understanding that the
very same political winds which divided Ireland, divided North
America with Republicans South of the border in the USA and
Loyalists North of the border in CANADA
Research
your family tree and area of residence in Ireland, study the map
and history of Ireland + historical dramas or movies
Raise
your own financial support from your own people in the country
where you live
PRAY,
PRAY, PRAY - into what God is showing you
2.
VISIT,
SCOUT, BUILD
Plan
to visit, expect nothing in return
Scout
out the land, plan to be rejected - remember your people the
IRISH RIASPORA abandonded Ireland in their hour of need
Build
relationships with other ministries in Ireland - share your
testimony
Expect
NO large meetings and NO financial offerings
The
Irish and Ulster peoples will think you are looking for
offerings to pay for your own holiday - you plan that if God is
really in sending you there, He will pay your way - after seven
completed missions to Ireland - this is my personal experience
3.
REVERSE
THE ROLES
Invite
Irish and Ulster ministries to visit your home, ministry and
country
Provide
lodging and transporation - build relationships - you need to
learn a few things about the Irish and Ulster peoples
Arrange
meetings for them, promote their ministries in your country
Raise
offerings to help their ministries
Mail
them a cheque
4.
SUCCESS
IS LEARNING TO PREVAIL OVER YOUR CALL FOR AT LEAST A DECADE
By
the grace of God we had our call in 1999 - last month we
returned from our seventh mission trip - October 2010
We
have hosted a variety of Irish and Ulster ministries - both in
our home and in our church
We
have raised thousands of dollars for these ministries, and saved
these ministries thousands of dollars by hosting them in our
home, in our church and providing transportation for them
We
have established a official relationship in Ulster, and
developed a very basic webpage to tell our story
www.churchonthego.ca/mission.html
We
have established an official outreach of our church called
DIASPORA MISSIONS
Click
here to see video on Youtube
We
have established relationships with the leaders of the Lausanne
movement and their Diaspora study track
We
are relational - but primarily focused on missions to Ireland
and Ulster
I
trust that these few concepts might help you succeed in your Call
of God for Ireland! In Jesus! Pastor
Steve www.churchonthego.ca
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