“Welcome to Nigeria. We’d like you to play with kids for a month.”
“Welcome to Romania. We have some kids for you to busy yourselves with.”
“This is Serbia! Let’s have an overnight kids camp for a week. Don’t look so excited…”
“Don’t you love Moldova? How about teaching English at kids camp for 2 weeks?”
By the way, we couldn’t communicate with any of the kids w/o a translator (except for in Romania.) You know when you stare at a word too long and you wonder if it’s really spelled right? That’s how I felt. I was staring at kids who spoke gibberish (to my ears,) and I wondered what the heck purpose I was serving after awhile. Be informed, there was a huge purpose for all that – but that’s another blog. Moving right along…
2. Hoblin Cbet (but in weird Russian letters I can’t repoduce) is the small church we’re living at in the town of Kirovskoe. It means new life. We’re camping in the back yard once again. I love tents – no heat, no bugs and lots of stars. (Did I mention personal space?!) I don’t know why we don’t sleep in tents more at home actually.
change. I’m seeing awesome giftings and strengths rise out of my team. We’re challenge in new ways to serve and in new ways to honor our contact. Who said change is bad? Change is what allows us to grow. Change is what pushes us and creates new open doors. Change waters new seeds in us. Fear of change is an awful and crippling place to be. 
4. Ok, YES, we did spend our 2 off days at the beach. It was everything you could want out of a day off. Shells, warm water, banana boats, (GOOD) pizza, and sun. However, I was quite embarrassed of the awful farmer’s tan I’ve gotten this past year.
August 22nd – We bus to Kiev to rest a few days.
August 26th – We fly to Dublin for our final debrief.
August 31st – Sept 2nd – The Awakening happens. It’s a huge gathering of all the world racers on the field right now as well as alum and staff. It’s a huge Holy Spirit party, basically.
L Squad hits AMERICAN SOIL in JFK at 2:50pm.
Get ready. It’s gonna be big…
