Okay, we are here in Vienna, Austria currently. Let me take you from our time in Ukraine, to our time here. I’ll try to give you the abbreviated version in the interest of time. Our time in Kyiv, Ukraine was priceless, can’t say a whole lot else about it right now. This month our squads 8 teams became 9 with the formation of “team burn.” This is a group made up from one or two people from each team who is feeling a call of “prophetic worship” on their lives to some extent. Prophetic worship consists of praising the Lord our God in song, with instruments, through prayer, and through the spoken word, led by the Spirit.
figure out where to go for the last month (atl month- “Ask the Lord”), Chris felt a clear call from God to go with the Burn team to Berlin and spend the month with them. This left us with four members and myself as the leader. We know this is good and from God. We still did not know where to head for these last three weeks. But let me paint a picture for you. I was at a good friend’s and supporter’s house last fall before the trip, and happened to be there with a guy named Michael Dean who lives in Munich, Germany and is huge leader for Young Life there. Fast forward a year and we contact him, he gives us the name of an international church in Munich, we happen to call at the perfect time and catch one of the deacons in the office, David Hepler, and he helps us find places to stay with church members the day before we arrive. After some sweet travel with team Manna (check out there ministry this month here) to Memmingen, we spent the night on and off of trains all over Germany while we slept in the train stations for our 3 or 4 hours “layovers.” When we got to Munich and parted 
ways with Manna we helped the church paint and move out of their current office in Munich, which was a source of stress for them and we were happy to help with that. We helped the pastor, Steve, to move and paint in his own house and spending time with him and his family was a blessing. We experienced some of the city with some good traditional breakfast, an afternoon in a beautiful park, and a somber and heart wrenching tour of the Dachau concentration camp.
We were there about a week and a half, all the while trying to find contacts in Austria for our last stretch. Nothing was formalizing and, thinking doors were being closed for a reason, we began to look beyond Austria to Hungary. The night before we left Munich for Salzburg we received an email from a woman who runs a center for refugees and kids in Vienna, and through a quick series of emails made the arrangements to come, for at least the weekend, to help her. After another long night of trains we got into Vienna and the next morning we arrived at the center, ready to help. At least four nights out of the week people fill the place and hang out together, get some food/snacks, have a safe place to go in this part of town, and hear some about God. It can be a loud and sometimes unruly several hours, and we wonder how much the messages really soak into the people’s minds. As of last night though, we are committed to staying here until the 17th (first day of our final debrief…) and stand for this place and these people through prayer, love, and God’s truth. A lot of the people have difficult stories here and the part of the city we are in is a red light disctrict, with girls on the streets at night just outside of the center’s front door. Please pray for Vienna and us as we try to “bring order to the chaos, fill the emptiness, and bring light to the darkness.”
