Hospitality

House Churches: Raising Funds Arequipa Style

House Churches: Raising Funds Arequipa Style

If you read through the book of Acts (as we’re currently doing in one of our discipleship reading groups), you can’t help but notice the incredible things that the Holy Spirit moves the young, small house churches to do in their communities. One of my greatest joys (and part of what gives me constant hope) is seeing the small house churches here serve. At the end of August, they came up with the idea for, led, and implemented a service-oriented fundraiser in order to be able to give food and personal hygiene products for an orphanage with 60 kids.

Seeker Services — Team Arequipa Style

Seeker Services — Team Arequipa Style

I plugged in our 220V waffle-maker and waited for the green light to turn on to indicate that it was at the right temperature to scoop in a ladle-full of delicious, pre-waffle perfection, batter into the collection of metal squares below me…

I’m getting ahead of myself. The best churches I know in the US are “seeker-friendly...”