We often ask ourselves, "What's a meeting? What's a book? What's a conversation? What's a Skype call? What's an email?" At times being church planting catalysts seems trivial and we wonder if any of what we do is really helping further God's Kingdom, but today God used this quote from Gospel Deeps by Jared C. Wilson to encourage us. "Uneducated men and women with stuttering tongues and unclear speech lit the world on fire because they were content to simply arrange the wood and trust the torch of the gospel to do its thing." Here are some of the ways we are arranging the wood and trusting God will light the fire:

 -by seeing the need for church planting material that focuses on the gospel and cities, we facilitated the translation and found the monies to have Center Church in Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish, which will have the potential to impact over 300 million people.

 -by meeting with pastors and leaders in Kiev, then casting a vision for reaching the cities, they decided to hold a church planting conference in November.

 -by encouraging, coaching and mentoring potential missionaries on Skype, we hope they will come alongside and help some of our church planters.

-by visiting our church planters and continuing to mentor and encourage them by Skype.

-by praying for God's leading and divine appointments as we continue to travel to the major cities of Central and Eastern Europe looking for men who have the desire to start churches.

-by receiving a email from NYC a conversation was started on Skype to help Steiger, an organization which focuses on reaching urban youth in the cities of the world. The goal is to assess, train and mentor some of their people to become church planters in Central and Eastern Europe.

 -by praying daily for the church planters and existing churches in each of our 10 cities.

 -by networking with various denominational leaders in each city we cast vision for church planting. Recently in Warsaw, Poland we met with 11 different denominational leaders. In one denomination there are four couples whom we are helping start churches.

- by being involved in a church plant in Berlin, encouraging and resourcing the church planter.

Please pray these opportunities will result in the gospel being proclaimed, churches planted and cities affected.
Thank so much for partnering with us,
Teresa