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We realise that preaching is necessary and that we must follow the instructions of the Nazarene teacher Jesus Christ. But to go out and preach the word of God, it takes a lot of things. It is not that we, like the apostles, can go from house to house to house and from residence to residence and count on a reception there where we should not worry about finding shelter and food.
Today we ourselves must ensure that enough money flows in to fulfil our worldly obligations. That means we have to work to secure our income. In addition, we must be able to make time for preaching. Even after I retired, I continued to do some work that brought in extra money, allowing me to support my preaching work. However, that preaching work, which kept ecclesiae open, did require a large contribution of private resources.

As preachers, we must be careful that not too much of private property or family money goes into the missionary work. When establishing a new church and renting a Beit Kneset or opening a synagogue, my wife requested that no more private funds be put into it.

For one year now, we have tried to open the gathering place in Anderlecht as a study space and meeting hall. For this, monthly rental fees had to be paid. And in a year that amount has risen firmly, while, unfortunately, there was no income against it. This means that this month we had to take drastic measures and still proceed to terminate the lease. Without income, it was impossible to continue our preaching work there. Now we will have to take pleasure in staying in living rooms or house churches, to greet people and tell about the Word of God. It has therefore been decided to give a small fee to those who let us meet in their home. This will require a financial contribution from us, but we want to do that in order for our faith community to exist and hopefully continue to grow. In any case, we still provide our various websites in addition to our ecclesiae, where we hope to get people together and thus continue our missionary work.

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Preceding

1. Whatever it Takes
2. Missionary action paradigm for all endeavours of the church
3. How do I know if I’m called to ministry?
4. Taking time for missionary work

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Additional reading

1. Expenses, costs – Onkosten, uitgaven
2. Time for this and that
3. Obstacles to effective evangelism
4. Now that we are thinking of expanding
5. The myth that people are paid what they’re “worth”
6. Not rewarding virtue, talent, worthiness or hard work
7. The most annoying bit here in West Europe
8. Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman (Summary)
9. Man enticed to long for more
10. An A-Z for a world which has to change.
11. Which Christians Actually Evangelize
12. Pastorpreneur Warren

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Find our communities

1. Christadelphia – City of Christ
2. Belgian Christadelphians
3. Broeders in Christus te Christadelphia
4. Gemeenschap van Broeders in Christus
5. Belgische Christadelphians
6. Ecclesia Brussel-Leuven
7. Kanisa la Christadelphian huko
8. Aalsterse huiskerk
9. Eglise de maison de Verviers