Church Planting Around the World!

 The last two months have proven to be some of the busiest yet for Bob in his role as Coordinator of the Church Planting Ministry Team for the IBC. During one week, for example, we were in Rome for the launch of our newest church plant. It was a great experience! We had been part of the feasibility study at the beginning of the process, and the assessment of the potential planting pastor and his wife. To be able to attend their first service was such a blessing! And Rome is...well, it's Rome!

We returned home from Rome on Monday. Tuesday was spent finishing up preparations for a Wednesday meeting in Dusseldorf of the Northern European LEAD Team – a regional group of pastors who meet to plan church planting efforts. We had 5 new pastors at the meeting – all enthusiastic about reaching Europe through the planting of new international churches. After an 18 hour day of travel on Wednesday, Bob found himself in Frankfurt on Thursday for a meeting at IBC headquarters. In addition, Bob meets weekly via Skype with the Church Planting Executive Leadership Team and the planter of our new church in Munich, who is raising funds in the US. We also conducted and interview with a potential new church planter from Texas via the internet.