Nicole’s story

“I was so grateful for the opportunity to go on the Vision Trip to Spain with the team from Multiplication Network and Anna’s Circle. I connected with many beautiful ladies who love the Lord and share my desire to spread the Good News about Jesus. Overall, the experience really impacted me on a spiritual level – especially as we heard from the three female church planters we visited. They were amazing. Their stories were so uplifting and inspiring and made me feel like that is what I want to do when I get home.

The entire trip was filled with Holy Spirit experiences!  He surrounded everyone in the group and we felt His presence daily. It was just a unique, uplifting, Spirit-filled time all the way around. For me, meeting Amy, Carla Wendy, and Yessi (church planters), and seeing what they did, as well as how they were putting their training into action, was transformational. I couldn’t wait to tell others about it.

During the trip, the Holy Spirit revealed to me that I want to be like the women we met and learn how to become a church planter. I want to spread the Gospel through my own gathering of believers and those exploring who Jesus is. Currently, I’m leading a Discovery Bible study with another Anna’s Circle Alum and it is going really well! She and I are also talking to people in our church about bringing the Anna’s Circle training to the women there, too.”

Later, Juan Carlos, a pastor with Multiplication Network, visited their church and preached a powerful sermon. Amy went right up to him afterward and said, “You and I will work together.” He said she was crazy. But Juan Carlos saw her desire and offered to disciple Amy and her husband. In time they took the Multiplication Network church planter training and started a church in their garage.

“We didn’t know where we would meet, but I knew God would surprise us,” Amy recalls. “And He did with a church building that was vacated during the pandemic and had all the furnishings.  Now we are starting a new church in a town of 22,000 people a few kilometers away. We found a building and are renovating it. We don’t have any people attending yet, but I know God will surprise us. When the Holy Spirit comes.., you have no reason to fear.”