We are in another month of ATL here in Georgia. We have relocated from the capital city of Tbilisi to Kobuleti. A small town on the Black Sea, just 25 minutes North of the bustling city of Batumi where many of our other squad mates are.
I just wanted to give you guys a brief update of what our typical days have looked like here in Georgia.
We usually have slow mornings where we spend time with God.
Then we have team worship.
At 12:30 we head over to our local Shawarma place called McDoner’s. This has actually been a huge part of our ministry is getting to know the hard-worker’s here. Spending time with them, getting to know them, and showing them the love of Christ.
Then we head to a public space (usually the park or the beach for worship). This is a way for us to be different and to be a light in this city.
After worship we head to do beach clean up. We have found several revelations in behind this service and many reasons why it is a service and ministry. If you have questions about this please let me know! I would love to discuss!
Then in the afternoon we go to a park where we bring a soccer ball, our homemade-braided parachord-jump rope, and maybe bubbles and water guns. Believe it or not our method has worked of, “if we play, they will come”. Yesterday we were about 5 seconds away of giving up saying “okay, there are no kids interested in hanging out with us, we need to do something different”. Then all of a sudden 20 kids showed up and we started kicking around a soccer ball and playing with the jump rope. We are once again here to be different and to be a light and share the love of Christ.
Pray for us that we will be able to have gospel conversations. Few people know English here, but the kids do really well with it. We only have one more week here and we are praying for God to break through. When I asked the Lord the other day what it was that Georgia needed to see, he replied “authenticity”. This is a country marked by Christianity strongly for nationality but not by a personal relationship with Jesus. Pray that the people of Georgia would see our difference and light of authenticity and desire closeness with Christ.
