Sunday 22 November 2015

News from the Hodgsons in Spain

This week I met a family whose 79 year old dad committed suicide, all the training in the world doesn't prepare you for that. I was able to help them pastorally, they are returning to the UK. Much of our work in the Calahonda church is transient like that. We may never see them in our church but my prayer is through this situation they have time to think and maybe they will walk through the doors of a church back in the UK one day.

We have a Swedish man who has just been released from prison in Sweden for rape. He will be returning to Sweden next week but whilst with us he has been ministered to on so many levels, he will return to Sweden a changed man I believe. 

We recently met a pastor from the outer Hebrides, he is a Gaelic speaker. He was virtually having a breakdown. He spent 3 weeks with us and you could see the physical change in him. 

I'm realising that we don't always see long lasting fruit, sometimes the fruit is with us for a season only. We have to get beyond purely seeing our ministry as bums on seats and offerings. We are not running a business but we are following a calling into ministry. 

We should be known beyond our church. We need to pastor our parish, minister to people we may never see on a Sunday service. We may never see the true extent of our ministry and that's ok, we just need to minister wherever we go. 


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