We are in sunny (and rainy, then sunny again) south Florida for the first of our “About Europe” meetings. This morning, we visited Cape Christian Fellowship and spent time with the pastor, Wes Furlong. He is a dynamic pastor who really “gets it.” His church is active in their community and has some overseas missions experience, but they’re excited about the possibility of getting more directly involved in Europe. We realized right away that Wes is a person of influence; he put together two meetings for us tomorrow, where we’ll talk to local pastors, leaders, and church planters about, well, Europe.

Cape Christian is a diverse church. Being south Florida, of course they have Spanish-speaking people. But we also met Heimo, a German expatriat who moved to Florida seven years ago. Who knew that we’d find Europeans (believers) here? Maybe God will use Heimo to help the church gain a greater understanding of European worldview.

“Pastor Wes,” as his church calls him, is a very articulate guy who knows culture,  philosophy. He’d be right at home in a coffee shop in Spain or a bookstore in Germany talking about secular humanism and the decline of rational modernism.

Right now, we’re working the kinks out of our “presentation.” We’re hoping that these small, informal meetings don’t turn in to lectures or shows. We really want to get to know these people and see if we can’t dream with them about how God might use them in Europe.

We wanted to have some people in Europe participate via webcam, but I’m not sure it’s going to work. Time is going to be short, and technology has a way of sabotaging things.

Please pray that God would give us words and wisdom. We’ll let you know how it goes…