John returns to the US, retools, and starts PassionLife. Over the next few years, together with Chinese Christian leaders, we train pastors in biblical prolife ethics in over 40 cities, adopting only reproducible and self-propagating methods. 

This description, coined by Kurt Dillinger (Life International), prompts PassionLife to research where abortion is most concentrated in the world. We identify three regions: Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. Over the next 2 years we make exploration trips into Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Vietnam, Romania, the Czech Republic and Cuba. 

Pastors in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan set out to train 83,000 people in the Gospel of Life. A team in India is identified. In Hanoi, Vietnam, a pastors’ group initiates a plan to teach the Gospel of Life and train people to rescue mothers in crisis throughout the country. In two years, they train 26,000 people. They also translate PassionLife materials into the Hmong language, and teach it to the Christian leaders of this minority people group.

Like all social reform movements throughout history, PHO services grow best when new people can quickly learn the most basic and essential principles in simple, memorable ways, and engage quickly in effective service. PassionLife Essentials trains PHO trainers in starting points, foundational principles, and memorable summaries that PassionLife uses around the world, that empower, rather than overwhelm, the non-expert. Essentials aims to create an army of neighbors helping neighbors.