Jeff Adams

Today is always a highlight of our trip to Amsterdam. We go to two churches and are always encouraged. When we first started coming to Amsterdam over twenty years ago we had not contacts. First, we discovered Crossroads International. What a great church! We have watched them grow and mature through the years. We have been with them through three pastors. Currently, Gerard Kelly from the UK is the pastor. Today he gave a great message from Acts 8 about how God guides us and how we need to obey even when we don’t have all the information we think we should have. Really, it was fabulous!

Then, this afternoon we visited Zolder 50. We have followed this church since the beginning. Currently they are in a series on manhood and womanhood. We hit the Sunday for the second lesson on womanhood, done by one of the pastors and his wife. Wow! They handled a sensitive topic biblically, sensitively and powerfully!

Today was especially encouraging a couple in our group. Pastor Brad Nelson from Princeton, NJ is with us. Brad is originally from KCBT, but has spent the past 123 years investing his life to raise up a church that meets on the very campus of Princeton University. He has done a great job! Mike Pitts was the founder of the work and part of the pastoral team until he and his family returned to Missouri a couple of years ago. Brad was encouraged to see the Crossroads Church also meets on a college campus, and to see the great ministry to youth that Zolder 50 has.

Patrice and Julia Niveaux from Paris were also blessed in a special way by both churches. First, they were thrilled to see how Crossroads has grown to a church of three services with 300-400 in each service. They believe they have much the same demographic audience in Paris. They learned a great deal today. Also, they were impressed with the ministry of Zolder and want to bring Julia’s brother back to see it who hopes to start a similar church in France. It’s neat to see how connections and networks come about from this trip every year.

Another fun thing today was to call into both services at KCBT. I am anxious to get home and it was great to be in touch in that way.