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Twelve people. Experiencing for the first time what its like to 'be' a missionary. Its part of our Test Drive program in Western Sydney where you join an active church planting team for a week and do all the things a church planter does. We talked to Pakistani students in their lounge room discussing a million ideas from their world.

A super group of 6 young people and their intrepid Tasmanian leaders Steve and Marie have just completed a Test Drive in Western Sydney. This means they have experienced church planting amongst unreached people groups. This is what they said about their time:

"I was excited that we are looking for people of peace and not theological arguments"

"Not as difficult as I thought"

Interact and be interested in Hijab clad ladies who are organising charity events
Nourish little children at Chinese birthday parties
Treasure Hunt with Middle Eastern ladies on Council Clean-up day
Entertain toddlers while Hindu mothers take tests
kNead homemade pasta with Pakistani ladies

Are missionaries still needed, especially in the classical sense of pioneer church planting. I have been discussing this with our ej Learning Community. We are reading Thomas Hale's book On Being A Missionary together. I have often thought we in the Western world could wiggle out of going cross culturally to the remaining 1.7 billion yet to hear about Christ.