Simple church pioneers

Had lunch with David Schaefer, German simple church planter, author and T-shirt print wizard, and Efraim & Ruben Meulenberg, twin brothers, multimedia innovators and kid's ministry pioneers.

David told me that he's translating some of Neil Cole's material ('Organic Church' and 'Life Transformation Groups') to the German/European context. He differentiates between 'apostolic context' - going to places to establish a beachhead for the Gospel - where the Luke 10 principles (looking for people of peace and kicking the dust off when there's no openness) apply, and an everyday missional organic church lifestyle, where your life is an 'open letter' of God's work, and relationships normally need time and persistence/faithfulness to develop. He sees the Life Transformation Groups as well suited for Jesus followers and 'people of peace' who want to become 'self-feeding', cheer each other on and keep each other accountable to a missional lifestyle.

Efraim and Ruben set up the web architecture for Rick Warren's P.E.A.C.E. plan and also developed IMPACT DVD's, a tool to equip children in their relationship with God and ministry. Their focus is to help children who know Jesus disciple their non-Christian friends, and even form small groups/teams.