organic church planting in germany
Had a great chat with a young German organic church planter, David Schaefer who lives in Essen. (Sorry his website is for german speakers only!)

David hosted Neil Cole from Church Multiplication Associates recently for their Greenhouse sessions on organic church planting in Germany. You can see a bit of one of these sessions and buy DVD's from www.de.igw.edu.

David and his wife were sent out by their Baptist church to begin planting small, reproducible churches last year. Having been through a period of 'de-tox', during which they connected with a number of people through a local coffee shop - which sadly closed in the Autumn, they and the two other couples with them have had a wonderful door open up to them to bless a large group of mostly foreign students from the local university.

A few minutes from their appartment is a student housing complex with around 400 students, only 5% of whom are German the rest coming from all over the world. Here they are simply being a friend to some of these students who are far away from home. They have made themselves available and offered support, coffee, an ear, even prayer when requested. They have made some good friendships which will probably last way beyond the university years.

Their desire is to be true friends to these students not 'sell them Jesus'; however that doesn't mean they're slow to share their faith when invited to!

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