Heathrow airport on a Wednesday afternoon. You buy a tray full of overpriced coffees and carry them carefully over to a group of people sitting round a small table. A teary-eyed missionary saying goodbye to sad family and friends!
It’s a strange mix of excitement and sadness. After handshakes and hugs all round you watch as your missionary joins the queue through security and into the departure lounge. A final wave and he is gone! The thought suddenly comes into your mind, ‘Now what?!’
Trinity Baptist Church, Gloucester, is 81 years old and I’m their first long-term missionary! This process was new to them and to me and we haven’t got everything right. Mistakes have been made. Here are six things that I’ve appreciated about my church from personal experience.
