CS Lewis once said “When Satan reminds me that I am a sinner, he cheers me immeasurably… Because Jesus died for sinners“. There is no doubt that sin abounds in Spain, we just want to see grace abounding more. Please pray for Spain and the free course of the life-giving Gospel!

Spanish firm offers course in prostitution (source)

With the country’s economy in doldrums and the rest of Europe showing little sign of recovery, a Spanish company in Valencia has courted controversy by offering professional course in prostitution which it says ‘guarantees a job offer on graduation’.
“For just €100, students will be taught the history of the world’s oldest profession”, the Daily Mail reported.
Promotional flyers of the programme flooded the university campus in the coastal city of Valencia.

Though Valencia falls in Catalonia, the part of Spain which is more liberal than the Castillian and Basque regions, The venture has still attracted much criticism. Many in the predominantly Catholic country feel that it is the wrong way to tempt cash-strapped and out-of-work Spaniards.
But the firm said that it will make the trade safer and ensure that ‘qualified’ sex workers do not have run-ins with the law.
The propreitor of the business said that 95 people, from the age of 19 to 45 years, had signed up for the one-week course, which takes up two hours each day.

• Yells “we’re home!” when you pull up to a hotel
• Thinks it’s strange if you are not going to be in the car long enough to watch a movie
• Is in church constantly, but thinks its a special treat when you get to go to “our church”
• Thinks there is a song called “Old MacDonalds had a Farm”, and on that farm he had a chicken nugget
• Likes to “play daddy” by standing on a chair and preaching to people
• Refers to the Spanish flag as “our flag”

If you:

• Are asked if you have been to Faith Baptist Church, and you answer “Which state?”, only to realize that’s still not specific enough
• You fantasize about doing housework…just because it’s in YOUR house
• You have regular “discussions” with your husband about whether Walmart gift cards are for shopping or gas
• You find yourself looking at a stove thinking, “how does this work again?”
• You are both sad and excited when you walk into your home church and see members you’ve never met before
• You wish all your new friends would just move to your home church, because visiting them all would mean a week long road trip

and finally…

• If you have seen God’s blessings and provision in amazing ways
• If you never would have imagined there were so many people who loved missions in America
• If you wouldn’t trade the experience for anything in the world!

The baby waiting game, and some more incredible examples of God’s grace through unexpected sources…

Here are some specific things they have asked for prayer for:

• Language and communication: “We will be finishing up language school soon and are in the last two levels. We want to maximize them and stay focused on these so we can correctly speak the name of Christ. “

• Fruit from labor: “We also have given out many Bibles and meet up with people and pray they come to know the LORD. We will also be meeting with William, our language teacher that seems to be agnostic but is searching for truth, once monthly. We also send out Bibles monthly so pray the seed of the word will root itself in the hearts of those that read“
  

• Faithfulness: “The Arabic Bible Study/Church on Sun Pm fluctuates, pray for faithfulness from the people that come and for power while I preach and for souls to be saved.”

• Pray for more laborers. “We have a couple coming to visit next month so pray for this.”

• Direction and protection:“We are moving and want to be in a place that is safe but also where we can still have people come over often so we can minister so we need the right place for this. Pray for the upcoming elections for the right president and for safety during those times.”

I hope you’ll pray for this family as they plant churches in North Africa!

                              Europe is Ichabod

Yeah, I know, it’s a weird word, and some people are thinking “how do you pronounce that?”. The word is found in the OT in I Samuel 4, when the high priest’s daughter in law gave birth to a boy immediately after the Ark of the Covenant was taken by their enemies. The name literally means “no glory”, and she said “The glory is departed from Israel”.

When I say that people assume Europe is Ichabod, I mean that God’s presence and power are gone forever from Europe. I’m going to show you the facts that lead to the assumption, and then I want to show you why I think that is RIDICULOUS if you believe the Bible. And I will try to keep my tone civil… even though it makes me angrier than David Cloud at a Pokemon convention. If you don’t get that joke, then it makes me angrier than an Apple user trying to get something done on Windows Vista.

The Reality:

Europe is a spiritually bankrupt wasteland, with only a few glimmers of light from the remnant of God’s people. This leads people to unbiblical conclusions. A veteran missionary in the Republic of Ireland said several years ago,

“The harvest time is past in Ireland. This is a time of gleaning.”

The assumption that God is “done” with Europe and that we should move on to greener pastures stems from the twin Kingdom enemies of fatalism and pragmatism.

The Biblical Response to Fatalism:

The answer is a correct view of God’s sovereign purpose. We typically make serious errors on the subject of God’s sovereignty: many fall on the side that crippled the church in England, the hyper-Calvinism that William Carey fought against. In our circles we tend to reject determinism in that form, but the hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me how we turn around and say that God is “done” with a people or country???

Sovereignty does not mean that God directly controls every thing that ever happens, that He is the author of sin, etc…  it means He controls what He wants to control. Though He gives us ability to make choices, our choices are not going to derail what He promised to do. His sovereign plan is revealed through prophecy:

a. There WILL BE a Messiah: Satan tried from Genesis to the Gospels to stop the coming of the King, but there is no stopping God’s plan.

Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, And shall call his name Immanuel.”

b. There WILL BE a Bride for the Groom: All who come, come choosing Him, but they are called a “gift” given to Christ from the Father. There is no stopping this wedding.

John 6:39 “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”

c. This Bride WILL BE made up of people from every tribe, tongue, nation and kindred:

Revelation 5:9 “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation”

There is no provisional language in this prophecy; no “if their culture doesn’t embrace humanism or secularism”; God said ALL nations would be represented before the Throne; it’s what Jesus referred to when He said He would build His church and the gates of Hell would not prevail against it, that all nations would be blessed through the promise given to Abraham, that if He was lifted up He would draw ALL MEN unto Himself..

This is going to happen, because it is God’s eternal plan. So then here’s my question: HOW DARE WE then write off ANY country or culture as being “unreachable” or “God is done there”? Seems a little presumptuous to me.

God’s answer to Elijah’s fatalism (Romans 11:4) was essentially “Get up and quit whining. I have reserved for myself 7000 that haven’t bowed the knee to Baal.”  To Paul: “Stop worrying. I know it looks rough, but I promise you I have many people in this city” (Acts 18:10). I don’t think God likes it when we give in to despair and then try to blame Him for it.


When God writes off a people, it is obvious because all that is left is a smoking crater: Sodom and Gomorrah, pre-flood society, the Lake of Fire, etc.

The point: if you’re breathing, you have hope. If the fountains of the deep have not swallowed you whole, the door of the Ark is open. God doesn’t write nations off like that: so why do we?

The Biblical Response to Pragmatism:

God didn’t give us a mission to accomplish: He never said “Go and build my church”, or “Go and save the lost”. He’s pretty clear that He gave us a process to follow in obedience, and that the product is all in His court: because He’s God and we are not. We don’t pick and choose who gets the Gospel based on who we think will accept the message, and thus fulfill a to-do list that God never gave.

So if preaching the Gospel is not based on which countries we think will respond most, what should it be based on?

a. A Love and Passion for the King and His Glory:

Isaiah 6:8-9 “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not”

Isaiah has got to be the most hated book in the Bible by pragmatists. It just doesn’t fit their world-view. Isaiah isn’t told to go and preach because he would see amazing results (he didn’t), because those poor people didn’t know any better (they did)… He is told to go FOR GOD, as a reaction to seeing Christ as the awesome and holy God, and the One who loved him and forgave him of his own sin.

Missions is not looking at people and counting them worthy of God, it is looking at our great God and proclaiming Him worthy of everything… Including the worship of the nations. If our primary objective in spreading the Good News is because we want the end product of people being saved, we are upside down: What keeps you preaching when you don’t see the results you want? Only love for your Redeemer.

b. Obedience to the King:

Like Isaiah, we do not have the promise that multitudes will repent and worship Christ. We should believe that His Word and Spirit are powerful enough to accomplish whatever He desires, and preach with an attitude of urgency and expectancy: but their response to the Gospel should never determine our obedience.

Isaiah 6:11 “Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered,
Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant..”

This is obviously worst case scenario in missions, and not what we long for, or should even anticipate. But the message is crystal clear: we preach because we are COMMANDED to preach, and we never never stop.

c. A Heart of Compassion like the King’s:

In the middle of God’s incredible searing accusation against Israel for their unbelievable sinfulness, He pauses to say this:

Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool”

Over and over again in the Bible we see God warning of the punishment for sin, but never without His incomprehensible love and mercy right in the mix. Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem, knowing that all would reject Him short term, and the vast majority long term.

Luke 13:34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!”

Whether they will hear or forbear, Europeans should know that prophets who love the King, and love them like the King does, have been among them.

Some Final Thoughts…

I’m fine with the biblical teaching of “dusting off your shoes” when people reject the Gospel, but I’m pretty sure Jesus never told His disciples to write off whole people groups: He was talking about individual villages. And it was only after that small group of people had heard the Gospel, then they were to go on to the next village and tell THEM.

You can drive for hours and hours in Barcelona and count on one hand the number of churches that would even preach the Gospel; there are whole cities within the city that have NO Gospel witness whatsoever. But somehow I’m supposed to believe that God is “done” with Spain. Forgive me, but that assumption holds no water theologically, biblically, or even logically. Maybe people should stop “dusting off their shoes”, and start dusting off their Bibles. Yeah… so much for my “don’t be mean” goal, right?

I know what I’m asking for: a whole lot of faith. But I’m not asking for faith in me, my mission, my ability, or in any other human. Let’s have some faith in the Gospel as a promise, and in the God that keeps every promise He’s ever made.

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Made it to Montgomery Alabama yesterday, despite the AC breaking down. Gotta love the south: 90 degrees in April! Also asking prayer for Holley Alvarez, someone requesting a Bible in Barcelona

This is me yesterday explaining my insane roadtrip… Finally listening to some advice and giving some visual updates. More to follow!

Well, here’s last month in a nutshell: 25 nights of church. 4000 miles. 6 States. 8 churches visited. 3 New partner churches.  3 missionaries, equal parts tired and grateful.

Hudson Taylor said “God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply”. We know that simple obedience to God’s call to go, and to be diligent in going, will result in God supplying every need. And He’s shown that over and over again on deputation.

When we first set out on the road, left our jobs and income, I’ll be honest: I was terrified. I put on a brave face and tried to act spiritual, but I had no clue how the bills were going to be paid. After seeing God first miraculously, then just consistently, supply every need, I no longer have any fear that we will get to Barcelona Spain with our support raised (it’s approaching 60%).

But I’m still afraid of something: I’m afraid I’m going to get there with no one coming behind me. Should I be afraid? No. The same God who supplies financial needs is the same God who does the calling of laborers. But as I get closer to getting on that plane, the more it sinks in to me that Barcelona is a place desperately in need of more men to stand and preach the simple life-changing Gospel of Jesus. Ultimately the only thing it needs is our mighty God to do a work, but He has determined that His work be done through foolish and weak people, so that He gets all the glory.

God is not limited, to save by many or a few. But I am asking Him for some fellow laborers in the Gospel; men and women who will stand in the gap with us and believe that God will shake that sinful place to its core. And I believe that He’s going to answer that prayer. He told me to pray for laborers, and He told me that when I pray according to His will, HE WILL ANSWER.

So this month I’m asking you to not only pray for us on the road, for the health of the baby (doing fine so far, praise God), for God’s supply, etc… I’m asking you to pray in faith with me for the Lord of the Harvest to stir some hearts and give them faith enough to step out and trust Him all the way to Barcelona Spain.

Maybe that person is you. Maybe you’re scared to death, and don’t know how God would supply, use you, open doors, etc. Trust Him: you’ll never regret it. Come with us and let’s lift high the cross of Christ!

Yours for His Harvest,
Scott, Melissa, Elena, and Isabel Newton

You know the type: he seems basically normal, a functional member of society, nothing too out of the ordinary. But then that moment comes… maybe in the chit chat by the punch bowl at the party, in the line at Starbucks, in the post-church sports conversation Sunday afternoon in the lobby, the question is asked:

“So… what’s your team?”

Depending on how he’s feeling, he may answer in a sheepish mumble, or with a tone that says “I dare to you to say something about it”, but he stands by his team, no matter how TERRIBLE they are. He’s met with one of several reactions:

• Disbelief: Are you serious??? WHY?
• Sympathy: Wow… sorry to hear that man.
• Admiration: Really? Wow, you are super loyal, my hat is off to you!

So why do I feel like a Browns fan? Because I’m a missionary to Europe. More often than not, I find myself hearing one of those reactions when I tell people where I’m going, and end up defending why I’m going, shrugging off sympathy that I don’t need, or admiration that I don’t deserve.

The reason people act that way is because of assumptions about Europe. The first assumption I mentioned was that Europe is Christian, and that’s where the disbelief reaction comes in: “Why would you go THERE?”.  Many people just have no idea how unevangelized it is.

Here’s the second assumption:

2. Europe is Gospel Hardened/Gospel Proof

Many Christians don’t fall into the trap of jumping to the first assumption, that Europe is just fine as far as the Gospel goes, but fall headlong into this one:

“That’s a rough place, because they are apostate. They know the truth, but they reject it.”

Or,

“I’d hate to go there. That’s the kind of place you go and see 3 people saved in 50 years.”

This is much more common than the first assumption to be honest. And it’s not just people in America: I’ve heard the same kind of talk from a LOT of missionaries. So where does the assumption come from?

a. The Statistics

There are actually plenty of good reasons to think that Europe is a lost cause, especially when you look at statistics.

According to JP, here are the 10 Least Responsive Mega-peoples in the World (www.joshuaproject.net):

1. Sweden 2. Belorussia 3. Lithuania 4. Poland 5. Georgia 6. Yugoslavia 7. France 8. Ireland 9. Czech Republic 10. Italy

They are ALL European nations! So that might seem to be a point in the favor of saying Europe is Gospel proof, but what about “Gospel hardened”?

According to the Joshua Project, they estimate optimistically that 13% of Europeans have heard the Gospel to a point where it could be called understandable enough to accept or reject. Sounds a lot more like Gospel ignorant, doesn’t it?

b.  The Culture

Europe is not third world, and that presents some different challenges. I’ve heard from MANY people this recurring theme:

“Europeans are rich, so they don’t want the Gospel. You have to go to needy people, they’ll listen. Europeans won’t.”

Monument to Homosexuality (Barcelona)

Europe is increasingly secular, humanist, and irreligious. To give you an idea just how anti-God Barcelona is, they built a monument to gays and lesbians repressed throughout history in their town square.

c. Didn’t Jesus say the rich won’t be saved?

I’ve actually had people open their Bibles to show me why going to a place like Barcelona is wrong. They take me to Matthew 19:24..

“And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

So… if statistics, culture, and even Jesus all say that it’s hopeless, then it’s settled, right?

Wrong.

The Biblical Response to This Assumption:

Essentially what we are saying when we make this assumption is that secularism and humanism are the “kryptonite” that defeats the Gospel and God’s purpose. The Gospel, and by implication God, is not powerful enough to penetrate a post-modern society. Satan finally found the secret to stopping God’s plan in introducing agnosticism and atheism into European culture.

Anybody else have a problem with that conclusion? Here are some biblical reasons why it’s wrong:

a. The sinfulness of ALL people groups cannot be overestimated

The only difference between any two given individuals or two people-groups is the life-giving power of God’s grace poured out through His Spirit, His Word, and His church: there are no people (Europeans included) more naturally more wicked, rebellious, or anti-God than others.

That means when people tell me that Europeans are “hard”, my answer is: “Of course they are, they’re human!” Believe it or not, hard-hearted, rebellious, stubborn, sin-loving, God-hating people are not new:

“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Romans 8:7

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18

The simple fact is that God has guaranteed that the Gospel will only serve to further harden sinful hearts for the majority of hearers. That’s a hard truth, but if you don’t believe me, go read Isaiah 6, John 12, and Romans 11 just for starters. The majority of ANY people have always and WILL always reject. Because… We are bad people who don’t like God. Politically incorrect, but true.

b. God’s grace and power MUST NOT be underestimated

People love to quote Jesus’ words on the difficulty of wealthier people entering the Kingdom, but they always seem to forget Jesus’ response when the disciples said “who then can be saved?”:

“With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible“

God delights in the impossible and improbable: Just take a look at  a few of those around the cross who ended up in the Kingdom when we start to categorize who we think can come or not.

• Roman centurions
• Jewish priests
• Scribes
• Pharisees
• Thieves
• A Cyrenian (African)

Sounds like a pretty interesting mix of all castes, races, education levels, and social strata. Jesus prophesied that He would be lifted up and draw ALL men (not every individual, but Jew and Gentile, every kind) through His cross. When we write off a continent as “unreachable”, we are writing off the cross and the Gospel as what God said it really is: POWER!

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” Romans 1:16

Throughout history, God has demonstrated His grace and power by turning the worst and most difficult nations to their knees in worship of Him:

Samaria: A bizarre mix of truth and error, leaving a land full of quasi-religious, ignorant, and lost people: eerily similar to modern day Europe! The disciples were rebuked for writing them off and assuming it was not a harvest field. The Lord of the Harvest then did an incredible work in drawing the Samaritans to Himself, continuing later in Acts 8 when He sent Philip to preach the Gospel.

John 4:35 

“Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest“

Athens: The Greeks were the skeptics, the ultra-educated. Paul said that the Gospel was “foolishness” to them:

I Corinthians 1:22-24

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

An example of this powerful call: we find Paul in Acts 17 preaching in Mars Hill, surrounded by idolaters and skeptics. As you would expect, most reject and scoff at the Gospel, but some believed, including Dionysius, a member of the Greek elite. This pattern is repeated over and over again with Paul’s ministry among the Greeks.

Nineveh: One of the most striking examples of God’s incredible saving power. If ever there was a culture that was beyond saving, this was it: mortal enemies of God’s people, haters of Jehovah. Yet He sends what could be argued to be the worst possible missionary imaginable in Jonah, and the entire city repents. The Bible message is clear: don’t tell God what He is able or unable to do in His plan of redemption!

Some closing thoughts…

There are no exception clauses to the promise of God’s power revealed through the Word: it does exactly what He wants it to do.

Isaiah 55:11 

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

And He’s been pretty clear that He wants it preached to EVERY tribe tongue and nation, and that includes places we try to write off. I don’t get irritated because Europe is “my mission field”, I get irritated because when we make this assumption, we are are talking about my God, His power, His ability, His plan, and His Gospel.

And I’m just dumb enough to think that if I go and preach it (or anyone else who wants to come along), He’ll do what He said He’d do, regardless of how “cold”, “hard”, secular, agnostic, atheist, humanist, or whatever else they are.

I was every bit as hard and hostile to God as they are, and if you’re a Christian, so were you. But God did something… He broke up that rocky field, He took away that heart of stone, He pulled you up out of the miry clay and set your feet upon the Rock: the same Rock He promised to build His church on. Let’s not tell him where He can or can’t build that church.

Many Christians’ perspective on Europe is colored by assumptions based upon Europe’s past, or a fatalistic reaction to the facts they know about modern Europe. For a few posts I want to focus on these assumptions and answering them biblically.

Assumption 1: Europe is Christian.

I hear this assumption from both the non-Christian world (assuming that Roman Catholic = Christian) and in churches. And it’s dead wrong. So where does this assumption come from?

a. Europe has an incredible Gospel legacy.

There’s just no way around it: no other region of the world has been so blessed for so long as Europe. Revivals, great preachers, missions movements…it’s all been done in Europe. This is why many Christians associate Europe and the Gospel together in their minds: they know the history, and it’s amazing. We know that as Americans we have GREATLY benefited from Europe’s Gospel legacy.

b. The vast majority of Europeans are partially evangelized.

Europeans know the name of Christ, and many even claim it. Even though Bible knowledge slips away with every generation (1 out of 5 British under the age of 18 do not know that Easter celebrates the Resurrection according to Christianity Today), there is a foundation that is missing in many parts of the world. Whether they believe it or not, most know the teachings about Jesus: virgin birth, deity, crucifixion, resurrection.

The Biblical response to this assumption:

a. Legacies don’t save, Jesus does.

It’s not unusual in many parts of Europe (not Spain) to find people who can tell you how their families were preachers and missionaries 100 years ago. In these countries with a strong Gospel history, you’ll find church buildings still standing where thousands worshiped…But they are empty today.

Outside of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, Europeans have no hope, regardless of how many missionaries were sent out 150 years ago.

b. Half the Gospel is no Gospel.

Galatians 1:6–7

6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

There is a huge push in missions right now to reach the “unreached”, to get the Gospel to those who do not know the name of Jesus, or have a Bible in their language. Don’t get me wrong for a second, that is a RIGHT push. But it’s not enough.

The problem is our definition of “unreached”. It is not an uncommon thing for me to call a church and be told “We are trying to reach the 10/40 window, sorry”, or “We want to stop sending missionaries to places that have already heard”.

In Acts 1:8, Jesus told the church to be witnesses BOTH (simultaneously) in Jerusalem, all Judaea, Samaria, and the uttermost. The Jews had a partial knowledge of the truth, and so did the Samaritans. I mean, they had all of the Scriptures that existed to that point, didn’t they?

But Jesus said go to them. Because half the truth is a lie. Half the truth gives no reconciliation between man and God.

A partially evangelized man is just as lost as one who has never heard the name of Christ. The question that must be answered when dealing with Europe is: What is a Christian? You can find millions of people in Spain and all over Europe that know the name of Jesus, have heard parts of the Bible, know that He died on a cross for our sins, but have absolutely no clue how to have a relationship with Him.

I recently saw a world map from a well known missions organization stating that Portugal, the country I grew up in, is essentially “reached”. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The absolute Gospel ignorance in that country is unreal, and we’re telling people that if you want to make a difference in reaching the world, stay away from Europe, they are just fine. Sorry, I’m a little angry about that.



c. Ignorance of the world is not an American cultural quirk: it is despising the Great Commission.

Haha, Americans don’t know geography. It’s a big joke to the world, but it’s a real problem. Our God is a global God, with a global love, and a global plan for a global church. When we are ignorant about the world, it shows we have a different level of love and priority than God does.

Europe MUST have the same priority in our lives and ministries as it does with God’s. Europe should not have more priority than the rest of the world, but it should not have less: ignorance is not an option in the Great Commission. CH Spurgeon rightly said:

“It is the whole duty of the whole church to take the whole Gospel to the whole world”

Many parts of Europe have seen God work in amazing ways. The Welsh Revival, the London Metropolitan Tabernacle, the Moravian missions movement, the Protestant Reformation… those are just a few of the things that come to mind when I think of Europe. But that’s not the Europe you will find today if you get on a plane.

Europe is dominated by unregenerate nominal Christians, atheists, agnostics, and Muslims. The remnant of bible-believing regenerate Christians is miniscule. Europe is NOT Christian, or “reached” with the Gospel.

It’s not exotic like places we think of as mission fields.

It’s not the place being promoted in Bible colleges as one of the “needy” fields.

It’s not at the forefront of missions trends.

But it’s full of people who Jesus died for who have no clue what the Gospel is about.

We are praying that part of the fruit of deputation is that people will see the need in Europe and that laborers will be raised up. We are praying for a team that will be used of God in Europe. And maybe, just maybe, you’re one of those we’ve been praying for.