Opportunities

English camps are quickly approaching (and we are still short 2 male cabin leaders in case you are interested). We have about four more weeks until we will head out and we still have quite a list of things that need to be accomplished during that time, so please be in prayer for that. This will be our first time taking a program staff role for a camp so it will definitely take some adjusting.

This last Friday night before we left for Pfiju some of the guys that Seth plays basketball with ended up coming to the Lighthouse for a few hours. It was very encouraging that they came along. It was challenging at times since they all come from the Middle East and are learning German now but we were able to communicate enough to play some games and have a good time. Please be praying that God will bring them back and create opportunities for us (especially Seth) to share more about God. Also that others that Seth has been meeting through Basketball will begin coming to the Lighthouse as well. This is also a great opportunity for the Christian youth that already come to the Lighthouse to branch out, make new friends and also share about their relationship with God.

There are a few girls from the youth group that I have developed a closer relationship with. God has been blessing these with many conversations about Him! Yesterday I met with one of the girls for the first time in a one-on-one setting. It went so well! God really blessed the conversation and definitely gave me the words to say as well as the right questions to ask! We learned a lot about one another and our relationships with God as well learning about various resources that are available to us that can help us to grow closer to God. In the end we decided to start to meet on a weekly basis. Please pray for this, every Monday, that God will give me wisdom and help us to both be vulnerable as well as help us to encourage one another.

Today we had the opportunity to spend time with some neighbors that we hadn’t yet had the chance to. They are an elderly couple that pretty much only speak German. We went over to their place for Coffee and Tea. We had a great time getting to know them, even if we didn’t always understand everything that they were saying J We pray that God will give us more chances to get to know them better in our last couple of months in this apartment.

Also today! Seth and I took a little hike up the mountains and had a picnic for supper. It was a lot of fun being in God’s creation and a beautiful day for it as well. We hadn’t been hiking in the mountains since everything got so green so it was like we were seeing a whole new place. We sure do live in a beautiful place!