We have just returned from visiting our friends in Madrid. A wonderful city with wide tree-lined streets, stately architecture, well-dressed people and a general lack of the traffic of our capitol city. It is our fourth year of visiting them and involved bringing three new frontiers churches together for a conference in the hills outside Madrid . Quite a few of the Madrid church plant have left the security of England, learnt a new language, settled children into a different school systems and taken up a new way of living. Why? Because they believe God has spoken to them and has been with them and wants a vibrant, life-filled church there.
Such folk inspire me. It has not been easy for any of them for so many reasons but they are persevering. They are persisting in doing something difficult where success is hard to measure and takes time to fulfil. They are doing it cheerfully. Their leaders are full of faith but also full of fun and laughter. They are not saints, just ordinary people serving an extraordinary God.
1 Thessalonians 1:3 We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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