Last night at supper, every table seated a variety of people and conversation--American, Albanian, Canadian, Bulgarian, British... the apartment is full for the weekend, as the church hosts an Emerging Leaders conference, led by a British/Bulgarian team.

I visited with one of the Bulgarian women. Bulgaria is 6 million people, and in the past 5 - 10 years, Muslims have built 2,000 mosques in that country alone. Imagine supplying Chicago's population with 2,000 mosques! If a village has even one family, even one husband and wife, who are Muslim, leaders will erect a mosque for them in that village.

She explained the way Muslims are infiltrating established villages in their area... one family moves in, and has loud disruptive gatherings late into the night for months on end. Eventually their neighbors grow tired of this and move, and another Muslim family snatches the vacant property. Before too long, the village is Muslim.

This is the last group to come for a while (that I know of). It's interesting to meet new people, but a quieter pace is also appreciated!