What is your legacy?

**warning i was def in a weird mood when i wrote this and side note to all of you.. i definately DID start falling asleep again at the fachhochschule while writing this and i decided not to repeat what I had done a couple of days before and I came back to the hostel and slept for 2 hours in the staff room......

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This week has been busy! Our first team arrived on Saturday, and it has been so wonderful watching them unleash on what is Germany. We also have an intern team in Duisburg.I, myself, have been spending time at the Fachhochschule - which is the School of Applied Sciences. Yesterday, I decided to study some German in the library, which honestly was NOT too...

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I will be truthful. There are days that I absolutely hate it here. I am recording this not for only you to know, but also so that I may remember... I dont know how to explain it. There is a grey here. I hate it. I hate not seeing the hankerchief miracles and I know it is because I dont have the faith...

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I am sitting at the internet cafe, after a day of truly living life.Today I had a staff meeting and then went to media markt to buy alarm clocks, to the grocery store to buy supplies for a base camp, and then to mueller for office supplies for the hostel and then I stopped to get some eis and continued to run errands....

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“…from one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places they would live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we...

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A couple of days ago, a few of us climbed to the top of the Dom. I took a picture of J praying simply because well uhm I felt like it. "Missions" is not about making a scrap book, this I understand but I cannot explain to you what was going through our minds, and maybe I can justify this picture through this...

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Things can get confusing on the field. I guess... things can get confusing wherever you are. (you will have to excuse my many typos.. german keyboards are crazy). It is hard really knowing what my place is. I am told I am here to encourage the interns, which is good, but I also feel much of my time if filled with logistical things....

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I’m traveling right now, I’m in between time and space, and getting to know my team mates really well, in between the movies and the random, non-making sense conversations, oh.. and we can’t forget when B. Juergins comes by to flirt.. shouldn’t it be a rule that 18 year old German boys are NOT allowed to be flight attendants on airplanes? I think...

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Do you find the pattern the same... everytime you switch shampoos? It's as if the beginning of a new bottle/new brand of shampoo is symbolic of a brand new chapter in life... or maybe that's just me thinking too hard about things.. the "english teacher" side coming out, right?No. I'm not making this up. It's true. It's how God intended things. So what...

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