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emerging church, emergent, simple church, house church, home church.Monday, March 13
middle eastern country - 100 new churches! A christian woman with a vey good job received a death threat and had to leave her work. She went to Egypt in 2004 and was trained in church planting. She returned to her city and prayed with someone in the last stages of terminal cancer. There was a remarkable breakthrough in her health and many in her household including a Muslim housemaid became believers. Since then she has started 41 house churches in her city and 60 in other towns! (Source & location witheld for security reasons) posted by alexander @ 12:34 PM 2 comments 
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I just spent a week with over 17 years experience in the Middle East and many of the past years in Irag. She was very sceptical about house church reports. They did not say it was not true. She had been in the south of Irag and had read a blurb from South Africa about dozens of house churches in the city she was living in. She asked about all over the city and no one thought the report was true. Unless we know for certain the character of the person who has said this or has actually met the people in the house churches I think we have to question reports about these statements.
By I was pretty amazed by this report too; however I got it from someone who knew this woman personally and they seemed to vouch for her trustworthiness. They had been involved with training her while in Egypt and have maintained contact. We are right to be cautious though, I know that other figures from parts of the ME have been exagerated. For more posts check out the Archives or for a specific topic use site search tool. |
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