Making the most of every opportunity

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. 6Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.  Colossians 4:5-6

This afternoon a group of people met together to talk about some ways to use our opportunities with migrants, refugees, strangers. We have recently translated the basic book from FriendSpeak into Dutch so that we can use these lessons with people coming in as refugees. They will need to be integrated into society and so will need to learn Dutch. But they will also need to know about Christianity. And we want to be able to speak about Jesus. 

I was struck by the text from Acts 17:26 - God sets out the boundaries of lands, deciding where people will go. He is not unaware of what is going on and He is still busy saving people everywhere. And He wants to use us (you, too!). So we want to be prepared. 

We talked about how to teach a language, how it is that the Word is the teacher (not us - we are an illustration), and that God is mighty to save. We talked about some of the challenges we will meet. We do not yet know how all of this will work out, but we are willing to figure it out, in prayer, with the guidance of God's Spirit. Will you pray with and for us that we can speak the word as we should, that hearts will be prepared? 

You can find pictures of the day here.