05 September 2007

Zauflik visit


What a joy to have Frank & Andrea Zauflik with us since Friday. Frank & Andrea are missionaries w/GEM and are regional missionaries. That means (if I understand it correctly) that they don’t focus on one country but on a region of countries. In this case, they are focused on the Central East Europe Region (We call it CEER for short).

In the time that they have been here, we have met with Martin re: establishing a church planting movement in Slovakia starting with a church plant in a nearby town called Zvolen.

Martin was encouraged to continue to pray for God’s leading, for His creativity & direction in concrete steps in laying a healthy foundation for the church plant and the movement he desires to see from that church plant.

We also met with a woman in a nearby city who, with her husband, owns a business the employs 60 people. Her desire is to use her firm and her business contacts to share her relationship with Christ with other entrepreneurs and business people. We had a wonderful discussion and she was encouraged that the Zaufliks are desirous of helping her establish a network of business people for the purpose of encouragement, growth and outreach to their city.

We made a quick detour to the Tatras (the mountains on the northern border of Slovakia with Poland), but due to the cloudiness & rain, not a single peak was visible.

It has been a refreshing time with Frank & Andrea and we look forward to more time with them when they return for follow-up and further ministry opportunities.