A snapshot of Spain

I am just back from Spain and thought I would share a glimpse of what it is like there with you. Enjoy!

Who is reaching who?

A couple of nights ago I was at a goodbye party for the man finishing up as British Director of European Christian Mission (if Jenny reads this, the food was great!). While I talked my way around the nearly 30 people attending I realised it was quite an international bunch.

There was one couple where the husband is British and the wife is German who are preparing to go help with a church plant in Germany. There was a Lithuanian woman who is planning to work in England reaching out to other Eastern Europeans. There was a Nigerian man married to an English woman who plan to work with an English church plant. There was an English man working here in the UK doing European research but who pops across to Spain to offer consulting on Spanish church planting...

It was a good reminder that today is a unique time in the history of God's expanding kingdom. Increasingly He is using people from everywhere to go everywhere to reach everyone.

I can't wait to see the fruit of all this new activity. Go God!

How do you run a church where almost no one works?

Funding a church will be a struggle in any situation. But what do you do when almost no one in the church has a job?

I was meeting yesterday with a couple name Terry and Christine who are church planting in a rural part of Spain. Average unemployment in Spain is around 20% (about twice the average in the euro zone). But in their area it is even worse. There are only one or two people in their entire church of 30 or more people who even have full-time employment!

I don't have an answer to this one. Do you?