Friday, August 18, 2006
IYKDWYBDYKGWYBG. . .
Okay, no, my title is not a typo, but can you pronounce it?
Scott just returned from a very productive ministry trip to Zimbabwe where he and Allen met with about thirty church leaders for a three day, intense conference. “Can you pronounce it?” was one of the first questions he asked the group.
Why? Because this ‘word’ describes the problem he wanted to address.
“If You Keep Doing What You’ve Been Doing, You’ll Keep Getting What You’ve Been Getting.”
Scott’s focus for the weekend was the importance changing our way of thinking from survival mode to intentional evangelism and church planting--and becoming fishers of men. He shared on the importance of finding a person of peace, like Lydia and Cornelius, and how from the very beginning, we want our house churches to be groups that are evangelistic. We want our cells to have a group DNA that includes the urgent mission to reach out to “ALL.”
I won’t go into all the details of his talks in my post, but the power point he put together was absolutely fantastic, and I’m excited to see how God will use this information to motivate the churches here throughout southern Africa for His glory.
As for happenings at home, life is never dull. Our internet is finally up after being down for two days, we have limited water for the next two weeks (complete water outages from time to time), and some nasty pluming problem. All of that and another snake! But spring is in the air and we are all healthy, so there are no complaints from me!
Next week I plan to post a slideshow of photos each day. . .from the heart of Africa. So stay tuned!
Blessings,
Lisa
That reminds me of the saying: the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. :-D
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