About "God's Design Church"

On Sunday the Team gathered at "The Diner at Northpoint" for lunch.  Andre and his wife Olga and one other Moldovan team member Uli were able to join us and it was wonderful to meet the three of them and ask lots of questions.  Ian, one of our Global X team members already knew Andre & Olga quite well.  It was great to see their interaction with each other!  We all were pretty laid back and relaxed with one another and this makes me even more excited about the trip.

About God's Design Church: Andre told us that the "church" is not really known as a church locally and their main events and gatherings are not usually on Sundays and are not considered "Church Services".  Locally, the gathering place is known as a Community Center and the gatherings are usually concerts or guest speaker events or fun events for young people where Andre may speak some words sort of like a sermon.  They also have some regular gatherings for "insiders" to fellowship and grow their faith and community with one another.

Apparently there are quite a few people who are asking "God Questions" so Andre and his team desire to get some of the insiders trained on the Starting Point materials so they can get some Starting Point Groups going.  Starting Point is such an excellent environment to ask questions and learn more about where we fit in God's Story.  I am very excited that we're bringing this to them!

We found out that Chisinau is actually pronounced with a hard K sound instead of the ch sound in our language.  We also found out that Moldovan food is mostly meat and vegetables which suits all of us just fine!  Andre said the pizza is good but different from here because they put mayonaise on their pizza!  Sounds icky to me but I've never tried it so I guess I can't knock it until I've tried it...

I'm really hoping that the other team members will begin posting soon so you can meet them.  Some have been really involved with the Drive Conference for church leaders that's been going on over the past few days.  Drive ends today so perhaps they'll have more time now.