Did you know that cutting your hair could be part of church planting? Well I discovered last week what hair and church planting have in common.
Last week I had a haircut. I went with Tjerk a team member to the barber and I had a haircut. Usually when I have a haircut I talk with the barber and the barber will talk with me and this talking usually happens during the haircut. That is pretty straight forward.
Last week Tjerk was with me and he talked with the barber as well. And we went to men’s barber. This barber was in the centre of Wittevrouwenveld the neighbourhood where the team is planting a house church.
And while I had a haircut we talked with the barber about what we did in the neighbourhood and that we are a church but different then the big Roman Catholic church and that we work together with the Roman Catholic pastor of the neighbourhood. We explained that we are a kind of a family and that we meet together at someone’s home, we will have a meal etc.
Of course the barber talked as well. And she explained that all her family have shops or pubs in Wittevrouwenveld. And she did not understand why there should be another church if the big church is almost empty. Well at the end we made a new contact. And Tjerk will probably go her for his haircut when he needs one.
And only God knows what will happened in the future so hopefully she will accept Jesus as her saviour…
source: http://iamtrainingformission.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/haircut-and-churchplanting/
