Excitement

The way we do our training here, we do combined 2 day group teaching and iron-on-iron time together. This past meeting was really first with the new group. We will usually give them some action items to do before we all come together for the next training a month later. They all come back and report on how they did and how their ministry is going. In between these trainings, I have the priviledge of going to visit them in their places of work. This week I was able to visit two of our new 16 for the first time.

Yesterday, I met with A. and his family. He was eager to tell me about things since our group meeting. He is very excited about the way his ministry is going since he started learning new things. He has been doing church planting for some time, and he knows all the right terminology for church planting, but he has had no clear focus or direction for the things he has learned in the past. I was really happy to hear how he had been affected by our training, and now had a clear focus for what he is doing. We taught the group about Luke 10:1-11, in finding the man of peace in a new place. First, to pray for God to give you a new place to go, and then go to that place. The man of peace is there, God has placed him in the place he is sending you to proclaim Jesus. Well, A. has since been waking up at night feeling that God is speaking to him about new places, and he has been planning to go to these places so he can share the gospel and start new churches in them. He is really excited about having direction in his ministry. Many others have seen a difference in him; even the main leader of this group who is helping me and has put this group together has noticed the change in his attitude and how excited he is to move forward in church planting.

This is great news, and I cannot wait, as I said before to see what these brothers are going to do with more teaching. Stay tuned!