Mission Notes
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Below is a sample of our Mission Notes from earlier this year.
Missions Notes January 2010
Happy 2010,
We trust everyone had a great Christmas and New Year Holiday. Family, food and fun always make a great combination and a recipe for an OMG! when you step on the scale after it’s all over.
It was cold here in Germany and we have kept the snow longer than most years. Fortunately we didn’t have to drive to much over the holidays so it wasn’t bad. Zack was home so the whole crew was here .. Nice!
We hope you have as much expectancy in your heart as we do for 2010. It seems like after so many years of plowing and planting that we are in for a season of harvest in every area. That’s exciting after over 16 years. It’s not that we haven’t seen fruit for our labor, we have, but this year will be a year of increase more than any other so far. Church growth, additional Training Centers with more students, reaching more leaders and formalizing the steps for the next 10 years.
The Next 10 Years
The next 10 years are crucial for the church in Europe. With over 700 million people and only 4% or just over 28 million people who say they have received Christ as their savior, there is a lot of work yet to be done. What has been done so far is just the beginning and we trust more can be done in the next 10 years then in the previous 30. We have a goal of 100 Training Center locations in Greater Europe. This will take a while but we are on our way. The next phase will be a cooperative emphasis on church planting. We aren’t there quite yet but the planning has begun. It is time for all the experience from so many committed people to be pooled together for the benefit of the Kingdom of God. Often pioneers don’t play well together but if there ever was a time when we needed each other and the world needed our combined gifts, talents, wisdom and experience it is now.
Here’s what happened in December and January.
Church in Bonn, Germany
We have continued on with a theme centered around Foundational Truths. During December we touched on “The Living Word” and how to make the Word of God alive in us. This will require the process of meditating on the scriptures. Revelation will come and the Word will come alive to us.
We had a special Christmas morning service and then we started off
the year with Communion. Then we ministered on Prayer and a Friday
night service titled “I will not fear!”. Remember these are all
available for download at http://rhema-germany.de/predigten.0.html?&L=1
Training Centers
December was a quiet month for the Training Centers. But everything started up in January ready for a new year. We are opening a new location in Köln (Cologne) which is only 35 miles north of Bonn. Cologne has over 1 million people and we will hold classes at one of our graduates churches.
Whether in established works in Germany, Italy, Romania, France, Ukraine or Quebec things are moving in great ways.
Opening Soon!
Part of our extended Europe Team are Matt and Julie Beemer. They have been building teams and will be starting RHEMA UK+, RHEMA Nigeria and RHEMA Egypt this year. These are all huge endeavors and they have put a tremendous amount of time and resources into these projects which will affect many lives and change nations. It is great to work together and they are just a part of this great team.
Thoughts
I still believe we can change the world! Do you want to do it with us? God is on our side and the greater the partnership in this, the greater and possibly quicker the results. We are better together and we can build better together.
I didn’t grow up in church and then only spent a few years in what might be called a traditional church. We believe in changing the world, not promoting tradition. That doesn’t mean all tradition is bad, it just doesn’t make sense to practice and promote worthless traditions. We are however passionate about our purpose, mission and calling. We believe in Building the Church by saving, establishing, training and positioning people. God has some things He wants accomplished and He needs believing partners. Partners who believe that working with God they can change the world.
We are redoing the Grunewald Ministries (http://www.Grunewald.org) website. It has been idle for way to long. We will let you know when it is up and we would like your comments.
Quotes
“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
“The Gospel is only good news if it reaches the lost in time.”
“Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone” David Livingstone
“At every breath we draw, four people perish who never heard of Christ”
“Let us pray that we never lose the vision of what it means for a soul to be lost”
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Gabi, Michelle, John, Zack, Spencer Right by one of the entrance gates to Ahrweiler, Germany
Ahrweiler is about 20 minutes from our house and is an old walled city.
Europe
Wald Strasse 38
53343 Wachtberg
GERMANY
USA
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