Reproducible Churches

Our family was sick over Thanksgiving but at least we spent time together. Heidi and Anna visited from Colorado. Sam is looking for full-time work. He was the assistant coach on the youngest 3 kids' cross-country team. They are now playing basketball. Henry & Nehemiah ​can't beat me in ping-pong... ​nor cornhole... ​nor airsoft. Petra is working part-time at a retirement home.

I have been affiliated with the Jordan Baptist Convention since we lived there in 2015. The vision statement of the JBC is “to glorify God by planting reproducible churches in Jordan, the Arab world, and to the end of the earth.” However, if you look at our 22 Baptist churches in Jordan, none of them are actually reproducible for 97% of the population of the country. If a Jordanian or Palestinian Muslim began following God according to the Bible, he could not reproduce a public, church building. The vast majority could not even consistently attend such a church due to persecution from the government, the community, even their own family. However, they could consistently attend and reproduce a private, house church. Pray for Arab believers from a Christian background to plant churches that are reproducible for all Arab believers in all Arab countries.

This resource is helpful to find how many times a particular Greek word is used in the Bible.