Living Missionally - July Update

Everywhere I go the challenge to live missionally as church communities appears to be the biggest agenda on the churches radar. It’s great to see so many attempting to find new ways in which to engage their communities from acts of kindness through to events with more deliberate focus.

Here in Palmy Vic Gledhill from the UK has been stirring the same pot and emphasizing the need to engage again with our peers in simple ways with acts of kindness and words of affirmation. He offers to pray for people if they have needs [work, marriage, home life etc] and to date has prayed for hundreds in this manner including many Muslims. He has never been refused when asked if people would like him to pray.

My niece Renee lives in Tauranga and recognised a simple need that her city had. Hundreds of drunk youth each weekend go partying and then drive home which in turn had caused many fatal accidents. She and a team now run a ministry called ‘life savers’ that operates on a Friday and Saturday nights offering free rides home to youth. They have now contacted and given rides to about one thousand people and in the process seen some come to Christ. Others are finding mainly music, youth initiatives and work with refugees producing great contacts into their neighborhoods.

Simple and effective - it works wonderfully.