The summer is 10 weeks long and this year we had 10 young adults come to work with us from One Mission Society and the College Missions Program from IM. The goal of the internship program is to help the interns to learn the basics of making disciples in a cross-cultural setting, so we teach them the Four Fields disciple-making process, the same process that we use to make disciples and plant churches, both in Catania and in other parts of the world.
We spoke about Jesus. We spoke about a new life in Christ and Christ’s desire to completely change his life. “A” said that he wanted this life, but he noted that any change in our life depends on the value of what you are changing it for. Wanting to leave him with an idea to consider, something to think about later, I told him Jesus’s parable about the kingdom of God being like a treasure in a field:
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
Yesterday, a friend of mine and I went out for an hour on a prayer walk to the mosques around town. Ramadan has now started, so while we are routinely praying for the Muslims in our city, we wanted to make sure to go out “on location” to pray and ask God to move amongst […]
In addition to our inner city garden we have also been doing work at a larger garden site for the last year. We are encouraged by the growth that we have seen and the opportunities it has given us in discipleship and community engagement. The apprenticeship program is sustained as well by the produce being […]
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe –as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things […]
