CPN affecting Europe for Christ!!!






Arianna – Italy.  After 2 years studying at CPN, Arianna graduated in July of last year.  She has a huge heart for missions but God has confirmed that He desires that she return to Europe to help wake up the church.  She felt called first to return to her home church.  She confesses that she really didn’t want to because in her church (and most churches in Italy) 

  1. Don’t form leaders
  2. Don’t have a process of discipleship
  3. Don’t teach tithing
  4. Don’t allow women to preach or teach to mixed groups or to men.

She was really frustrated the first two months at her home church but God opened the door.  Her pastor asked to talk to her and said for the last two years he had felt a call to begin a discipleship program.  He asked if she had any idea of how to start it.  That opened the door for her to share what she had learned in Colombia.  She said first that they needed to form leaders.  She has started a leadership formation program with emphasis in the personal relationship with each leader.  The leaders, many of whom have been in the church for over 40 years and many are true elders, bearing 70 years of life, are humbly receiving the training and healing from their pasts.

Please keep Ariana in your prayers!!!  She is a brave young woman who is being obedient to God.  Europe has much need and we pray that God will continue to use her in her own church as well as take the contagious love to other churches in Europe.

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