Survey Says...

Last Friday began the first day of our survery work. Survey work is what we will be doing to 'survey' different areas and communities. We will be looking for areas with very few healthy Christian churches and with a large population base. We spent the day Friday praying and startegizing with a map of New Zealand. We will be looking specifically at six cities. We chose these cities to begin with based on the amount of growth they have experienced in the last five years. We are beginning to do demographic studies on the areas we have chosen to help us learn about the people and the area. After learning all that we can from the internet and phone calls, we will make trips to visit these areas. We will meet with any churches that are in the area, community leaders, and do random interviews to people on the streets about what they see as the biggest need in the community. Each of these six cities that we are looking at is divided up into different regions in which we will need to survey, interview, and learn about. Please pray with our team that we will be intentinoal, hardworking, and observant, but that we will also follow where God is leading us to start a church.