This past week we had a unique opportunity to bring Janie Wead, one of our co-workers, to Amsterdam to teach the students about church planting. She has worked in our office for the past year under Michael McNamee and has planted over 60 spanish speaking churches throughout the US, Mexico and Spain. We love her and it was great to give the students a chance to hear her heart and passion for people to know the love of God.
She shared a lot of her personal experience and told a lot of great stories. The cool thing for me was thinking about where these students could be in 5 years. Right now they are on a journey of seeking God, knowing him in a deeper way and finding the dreams he has placed inside of them and called them to. In 5 years they could be planting a new church that will be the hope of their city. Europe desperately needs more passionate young people who will do as Janie talked about, become intentional in reaching out. We need to be more aware of the opportunities we face each day to show who God is to the environment around us. So it was amazing to see the excitement that came from these intensive classes on church planting. One of the students said to me that she had never considered planting a church before, but that this got her excited. It's amazing to see as we plant these seeds in the students how God will nurture those to raise up new leaders for this continent.
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