Fruit Salad Congregation

(photo from: http://www.mccormick.com/Recipes/Desserts/Very-Vanilla-Fruit-Salad.aspx)

On Sunday at our little church-plant, our guest preacher (a missionary from the UK that is a member of our church) likened our church to Fruit Salad. The melting pot of nations that our church has become is beautiful, but we're starting to see how difficult it is to merge culture, traditions, religious views and leadership styles. As I've said before, our church is made up of people from The Congo, Malawi, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, multiple South African cultures and languages... and more.

This Saturday - our church is having our annual Leadership Meeting. Ministries haven't officially begun yet. Cell Groups, Youth Fridays, Ladies Ministry, etc - all wait until this Leadership Meeting before starting a new year. Pastor Severo will cast his vision for the year and he's asked me to lead a session on Discipleship. We've invited around 30 people to this meeting. Last year we had about 4 people faithfully serving on leadership. This year, we're hoping to have trustworthy people alongside us to carry the weight of this enormous task. It's not like we haven't tried to build leaders and delegate in the past - we've never had faithful, follow-through people beside us. Trying to strip poverty-mentality and poverty-spirituality is difficult!

So, I'm asking you to commit this meeting to prayer and pray continually for the leadership of our church-plant. I'll keep you posted!