Just wrapped up a really significant weekend in Poland with teams from missional community churches from over 10 countries.

Saturate discovers and curates some of the best practices and learnings from the Soma family and other like-minded churches and repackages them for the church at large. It also provides training events like this one.

Our time in Poland was centered around four topics; gospel, mission, community, and prayer. Each team was given time for group processing, prayer, and action planning, with a lot of good foods and drinks to enjoy in between.

It was very encouraging to hear stories of people experiencing Jesus through the obedience of ordinary people on mission in their towns and cities.  At the same time many of the leaders present are coaching and equipping tens of churches in their country that are learning from them.

We had three of the Slovakia churches of Missional Communities that we’ve been serving and equipping join us.  It was awesome to see some relationships form between these churches and other churches in Europe as well as with Soma friends of ours who came. Pray that these partnerships would continue to be established and that they would be helpful and encouraging.

I got to lead this with Todd Morr (Saturate.)  This is the third year in a row we’ve gathered churches from Central and Eastern Europe together for this kind of peer learning environment.  A highlight for me was tag-teaming breakout discussions with Dan Hash.  Dan has is a long time friend of mine, my family’s, and of Soma’s.  He’s been in Poland working with Josiah Venture for 23 years and has spent the last 10 years focusing on church planting and starting MCs.

All of our Missional Community leaders from our church in Nitra were able to come!

– Dawson and Laurel