Smaller, Private Churches

The boys getting rich on the 4th of July with an Iraqi friend in the neighborhood :-)

I enjoyed visiting with both old friends and new friends in Jordan last month. We talked about parenting, online evangelism, immigration, exercise, counseling, church planting, and a dozen other things. When talking about planting smaller, private churches in Egypt and Jordan, the issue of authority came up a few times, such as: Who has the authority to plant a church? Serve communion? Baptize new believers? I have sent my Google Form regarding smaller, private churches to several of them. I am getting feedback before I have it translated into Arabic. If you want to speak my luuuuv language, read the overseas version or the American version and give me your feedback too. Please pray for these ongoing conversations about church planting.

After giving a missionary in Beirut the Arabic version of the parenting book Shepherding A Child's Heart, he later wrote, "Some of the believers here are looking forward to studying through it and were excited to see the book is in Arabic, as was my wife!" A Sudanese seminary student in Lebanon told me that he taught the principles of the book to parents when he visited Sudan. Pray for many other leaders/fathers who have received either a hard copy or the link to the online version in Arabic. Pray that they will read it, obey the biblical principles themselves, and help other parents do the same.