swiss flowers

Met up for a coffee with Florian Bärtsch a church planter from Switzerland who is currently living in High Wycombe improving his english and working with Dick Scoggins to explore ways of equipping and releasing an apostolic movement of pioneer church planters across europe.

As part of a team in Switzerland, Florian and his wife Anni have seen around 17 new home churches started, mainly amongst non-churched folks. How have they done this? By going to a new village and intentionally evangelising it. They invite people to a healing meeting which attracts new-age, esoteric types, minister through word of knowledge then share Jesus with them. The new believers are then formed into one or more home churches. Florian has found that power evangelism is the only way to break through the western european culture. All else they have tried has not been successful at winning previously non-churched people.

Three years is what it takes for real 'family' to form in these new churches and now they are starting to see this first generation beginning to reproduce and plant new churches which is very exciting. It has been slow and takes a lot of hard work but Florian has seen it work in a european context and has faith to see it grow and spread through the raising up of a movement of young apostolic pioneers.

The team have also had wide involvement in seeing many hundreds of churches planted in India, Russia and other nations. They have learnt many lessons the hard way and are ready and willing to pass on their knowledge to others.

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