After a long delay...

The summer is flying by. We have had six teams come to help with our new building and the progress and the change has really been amazing. We will have a five week break through August and then the teams start back up again in September. Not as steadily as it has been for the summer but right now we have five teams scheduled for September and October.

Last week we also had youth camp. We ended up having to do the speaking, worship, morning devotional, activities... you get the picture, ourselves. But it was a great time with the teenagers and a great time with the leaders from our Austrian fellowship's youth ministry. Two of them helped out by preaching on consecutive nights. On the final night we had some youth baptized in the Holy Spirit and the presence of God was very much around us. It was a fun week and it was great to see the girls and guys get to know each other and really form a community. There were 10 students total and their nationalities were literally worldwide. A few from China or Taiwan, one from Ethiopia, a few Austrians and a couple of North Americans/Europeans. It really was an international group!

travel itinerary and updates

I like this blog thing. I just don't use it enough. I will follow the lead of a friend and try blogging a bit more regularly.

The next month has a lot of away from home time for me:

yesterday I went to England to get my passport stamped
Monday I go to Greece for a week
Feb 4-7 I go to Czech to help a Bible school get their office up and running for the English speaking needs they have
the week after that I go on the Pastor/Staff ski retreat week over in Imst
the week after that I'm in Gutenstein at our retreat center cooking food for Bible School students who will be there for a one week intensive course.

March will have 4 days in Switzerland as well. Nothing for April, May or June but the Czech thing came up just last week...