I have the privilege of taking Cross-Cultural Church Planting this week with Dr. Akins. It’s a one week intensive and unlike any other class I’ve had. We spend the mornings in the classroom talking about how to plant churches cross-culturally. That’s normal.
In the afternoons we go out into the Sudanese/Somalian community of Memphis and literally put into practice what we just finished talking about. This is day one.
Cross-Cultural Church Planting // Day 1 from Ryan Bush on Vimeo.
Obviously, it is not reasonable to expect a church to be planted in a week. However, you can definitely get some things going.
We are working in conjunction with the River Nile Baptist Church that meets at Leawood Baptist Church. They’ll pick up where we leave off at the end of the week.
We were able to visit with a few folks in their homes. Most Sudanese and Somali people are of the Muslim faith. When I stepped into where they spend their lives, I was stepping into another culture, another worldview, another way of life. It was both fascinating and a bit frightening. Altogether different, but at the same time very much human, and in it I saw the same things I as a human look for: peace, joy, hope, love . . .