Try Christchurch or Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
If you were to live in another country, what would it be?
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Try Christchurch or Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
danmpem
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Same here.
I would like to know what Geneva is like before I make my final call.
servantofmosthigh
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Well, you can sneak across the border patrols easily and not get caught, unless you're a wanted criminal. In which case, everyone will want you to stay in California.
Ivan
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Is there a church there for me to pastor?
danmpem
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DMcFadden
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Geneva is a historian's paradise, full of rich Reformation history. The Calvin stuff alone could keep you busy. It is also situated on one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. Unlike Basel, however, it is VERY French and quite expensive. The sticker shock compared to Basel and Bavaria was pretty stiff a few years back when I was there.
VirginiaHuguenot
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It is the home of Calvinus beer, the Librairie Droz, and the International Museum of the Reformation among other things.
You don't need a passport yet. Give it a couple more generations given the demographic changes there.
If you are a Reformed Baptist, there are no churches with vacant pulpits, but there definitely are church planting opportunities.
If you are a paedobaptist, the Reformed Churches of NZ have pulpit vacancies in both cities (the Reformed Church is a sister church of the OPC).
ChristopherPaul
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danmpem;
In all honesty, I don't know where I would want to live. No matter where we would choose to live in the world there are problems.
I wouldn't want to live under Muslim rule, and I wouldn't want a Socialist/Marxist government, even though that is the direction America seems to be going these days..
Maybe Antarctica, granted it is one of the coldest places on earth, but with the 'global warming' it is supposed to be heating up pretty fast causing the ice to melt and things to warm up..
There would be no new language to learn, unless I could learn to speak penguin or polar bear, and I could build a green house to help grow some veggies to eat..
In all honesty, I don't know where I would want to live. No matter where we would choose to live in the world there are problems.
I wouldn't want to live under Muslim rule, and I wouldn't want a Socialist/Marxist government, even though that is the direction America seems to be going these days..
Maybe Antarctica, granted it is one of the coldest places on earth, but with the 'global warming' it is supposed to be heating up pretty fast causing the ice to melt and things to warm up..
There would be no new language to learn, unless I could learn to speak penguin or polar bear, and I could build a green house to help grow some veggies to eat..
PresReformed
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Brazil
danmpem
Puritan Board Junior
Why don't the polar bears eat the penguins?
Jen
Puritan Board Freshman
I would live in Switzerland, because I miss my family and it'd be easy to live there since all I have to do is renew my passport, find a place to live, and stop by the police station to tell them I'm there. The Berner Oberland is beautiful, and even though the dialect is very difficult, I wouldn't mind settling there.
The state of the Church in Switzerland is indeed quite tragic. One of my cousins is married to a man who works as a youth minister in the state church in Winterthur (by Zurich) -- they have four pastors, two are believers, two aren't, openly (they see their church as a mission field). Meanwhile, her Mum has gotten sucked into the prosperity gospel trap, and her grandparents (who are faithful believers, though strongly dispensational) attend a church that basically preaches on nothing but the end times because there wasn't anything better around when they moved (they moved from Wallis, which is a Catholic canton [in the German part of the French part of Switzerland] to Bern). Not that you could guess all of this from a peek into a Christian bookstore -- the one we went to in Thun actually had more works by Reformed authors than the Christian bookstore in Sacramento.
On the brighter side, one of my uncle's childhood friends became a Christian some years ago, and his family attends one of the free churches -- while it's pretty charismatic and totally built around the Willow Creek-model, he himself reads and likes Jonathan Edwards, which was probably the most encouraging thing I heard the two weeks I was there (back in April).
If, by the way, anyone knows of good theological resources translated into German (and how to get them!), could you please let me know? We want to get some books into the hands of our cousins.
Scotland, because the climate is absolutely as close to perfection as we can get. Actually, I would like to marry someone who wants to go to Scotland to plant a Reformed Baptist church there.
Or Australia, because I miss it a great deal, even though I'm not really a big fan of the climate at all (actually, I think the West Coast is the best part of the U.S. because we're the only coastal area to not have intolerable humidity).
Or even Canada, specifically British Columbia, because I have friends there and BC is gorgeous and I want to live some place with a better climate than California.
The state of the Church in Switzerland is indeed quite tragic. One of my cousins is married to a man who works as a youth minister in the state church in Winterthur (by Zurich) -- they have four pastors, two are believers, two aren't, openly (they see their church as a mission field). Meanwhile, her Mum has gotten sucked into the prosperity gospel trap, and her grandparents (who are faithful believers, though strongly dispensational) attend a church that basically preaches on nothing but the end times because there wasn't anything better around when they moved (they moved from Wallis, which is a Catholic canton [in the German part of the French part of Switzerland] to Bern). Not that you could guess all of this from a peek into a Christian bookstore -- the one we went to in Thun actually had more works by Reformed authors than the Christian bookstore in Sacramento.
On the brighter side, one of my uncle's childhood friends became a Christian some years ago, and his family attends one of the free churches -- while it's pretty charismatic and totally built around the Willow Creek-model, he himself reads and likes Jonathan Edwards, which was probably the most encouraging thing I heard the two weeks I was there (back in April).
If, by the way, anyone knows of good theological resources translated into German (and how to get them!), could you please let me know? We want to get some books into the hands of our cousins.
Scotland, because the climate is absolutely as close to perfection as we can get. Actually, I would like to marry someone who wants to go to Scotland to plant a Reformed Baptist church there.
Or Australia, because I miss it a great deal, even though I'm not really a big fan of the climate at all (actually, I think the West Coast is the best part of the U.S. because we're the only coastal area to not have intolerable humidity).
Or even Canada, specifically British Columbia, because I have friends there and BC is gorgeous and I want to live some place with a better climate than California.
Kim G
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South Korea. I spend two months there in the summer 2004 and my hubbie and I are considering moving there to teach English. Beautiful city, Seoul, friendly people, taxes at only 4%, and I love the culture (and the FOOD).
I also spent time on a mountain-top in Cameroon. It was absolutely gorgeous. But I have a (very irrational) fear of spiders and it was only by the grace of God that I slept at night knowing what bugs were around me.
I also spent time on a mountain-top in Cameroon. It was absolutely gorgeous. But I have a (very irrational) fear of spiders and it was only by the grace of God that I slept at night knowing what bugs were around me.
danmpem
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Poimen
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Switzerland would definitely be part of my top 5 along with New Zealand, Finland, Sweden and Norway.
I lived six non-consecutive years in the United States and might want to go back if I could move (back) to Washington State, Oregon, or perhaps in Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine.
In reality though this world that our God has made is so beautiful I think I could be satisfied living almost anywhere (as long as I had a beautiful wife with red curly hair and six+ kids -hey how did that get in there?).
I lived six non-consecutive years in the United States and might want to go back if I could move (back) to Washington State, Oregon, or perhaps in Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine.
In reality though this world that our God has made is so beautiful I think I could be satisfied living almost anywhere (as long as I had a beautiful wife with red curly hair and six+ kids -hey how did that get in there?).
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