Finding Gold

Luke tells us that in the church at Antioch there were ‘prophets and teachers’ (Acts 13: 1), and it’s such a joy to work with the many differently gifted men and women in God’s family....

Earlier this year at the Globally Fruitful conference, God spoke through the teachers about the importance of watering the seed, and through the prophets about detecting gold. Over the years, Relational Mission has invested so much effort sowing seeds in the Nordic and Baltic nations and yet, apart from the beautiful work in Stockholm, there seems to be little to show for this, even a sense that some of our inheritance there has been misappropriated.

So it was a great encouragement to us to consider re-watering some of this region in faithfulness and obedience, and trusting God that some of this seed may yet bear fruit for us in the coming season. Along with this, a prophetic word about metal-detecting for gold in the nations – we have a clear strategy to plant model churches in other cultures and multiply these in order to create the environment where translocal ministries can be tested and raised up; but this prophetic word encourages us also to be on the lookout for men and women of ministry that God has already raised up in different nations, but who are longing for connection with others that share their values and that can help them outwork this in their context – this is the gold we are looking for!

Please pray with us as we revisit some nations where we have laboured but have yet to see much fruit in the Nordic and the Baltics, such as Norway and Denmark and Finland and Lithuania, but also some other nations where God may lead us and help us connect with people already on the ground that we can get along side and serve, such as Spain and Hungary and Slovakia and Ukraine.

Every Blessing

Maurice

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