FINDING THE PEARL
It had been a long month! September, 2006 had been a strange month in the life of a pastor as well. Frankly I had not been at home or at my church very many days. I had started off hosting an evangelist from India, then spent time with a leader connected with a Bible translation agency. Then I was off to Dallas, Texas, where I spent a week listening to a man who challenged all of my assumptions and theories about ministry or missions! David Watson had facilitated the beginnings of one of the largest church planting movements in the world in the 1990's in India. Now, he was beginning to train and catalyze leaders from Africa and new movements were beginning that promised to break new ground in the Islamic world. Now during this week in Dallas, he was teaching leaders from various Mission agencies or churches about the principles that were bearing such amazing fruit. After that week it was onto a plane with a group of people to go to Wes...