Let me tell you what we are doing in Holland (see also http://www.timetoturn.nl/new/english.php)

* We've set up a foundation, Time to Turn, last years, with some (ex-)students and decided to be a partner of SPEAK
* We try to speak about injustice, but also about lifestyle and materialism. We have the idea that injustice starts with our materialistic values.
* We have 5 people in the core team, all part-time (we all have an other parttime job) and we have around 15 volunteers, 150 networkers ("Speak links") and 1500 readers of our ezines.
* Just recently four local groups are trying to get active!
* We distribute bible studies and booklets (people have worked for that since 1997, so it's not just our achievement) about environment and poverty, and we visit a youth group / student society / church almost every week!
* We've discovered that we want to use humour to make people listen to our campaigns about serious stuff, it works great, because humour crosses boundaries. Christians and non-christians, idealists, and non-idealists are laughing and reading what we say!
* We did an attempt to break the "world record in eating fairtrade banana splits simultaneously", and 3000 people joined us in 25 cities! There were even churches preaching about bananas (and about injustice) and christian + secular media broadcast interviews with us. It was great!
* We've had our 1st festival, with 70 students, like SoundCheck
* We have contacts with Belgian (Dutch-speaking) people who want to set up Time to Turn / Speak Belgium. Last week I did a presentation for a group of 20 Czech youth workers. They were really impressed, they'd never heard any christian speak about materialism and injustice before.
* And: each year we try to get people active by taking them to SoundCheck in London. Last year we were with 20 people and it was great! It's really a starting point for them to change their lifestyle and to speak out for justice.

Now, we have some crazy plans for the coming months:

* We are starting with something that looks like the Pray&Post card in England. 3 times a year we make a card and we try to be both serious and funny, Jesus-centered but also understandable to non-christians. The first card is to be sent to your local church (see below for an example)
* We are secretly making a WESTERN BIBLE TRANSLATION: a new bible for the western consumer. We will cut out every text that speaks about money, poverty, or justice, and we are setting up a Western Bible Society to promote "easy faith". We hope that this will get lots of attention in the christian world!! And in the end we will say that everything is a joke and that you can't cut the gospel in two. It's all or nothing.
* We will try to make a huge SWEATSHOP on a christian festival, and also one in the middle of a city, to promote our second Pray&Post card about fairtrade clothing. People who want to work in the Sweatshop get paid by us: 30 cents an hour. We'd like to sew a big banner about fair trade.

Well, this is it, I guess. We are impressed that, one by one, people decide to change their lifestyle. With God. That proves to me that our story is true, that Jesus's story is working!