Monday evening I received a call from a man named Bill who said he was from Canada, involved with home churches, and eager to discover what God was doing in my area. He asked whether we could get together. We met Tuesday evening for dinner, joined by his partner Patty. They are professors of psychology at a Canadian college, who have started a business providing ways in which employers can treat their employees better, producing workplace harmony. Both had extensive traditional church experience but had been led about a year and a half ago into a more organic approach to the Christian life. Now they are relationally connected to fifty groups in eastern Canada. I was both fascinated and amazed at how the Holy Spirit is working.
We each gave parts of our stories along with discussion of identity in Christ, boundaries to itinerant ministry, the crucial importance of encouragement, cross pollinating various parts of the Body, and a number of other topics. I found them down to earth, relational, willing to listen, and excited about using the opportunities that the Lord has given them to connect with other networks of believers. For the last six years the Lord has had me working on forming relationships between different groups and leaders in New England. Now He is transitioning me to work with whole networks. Last year it was a Brazilian network. This year I hope it is a Canadian one. May God get the glory!
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