Packing

As we pack up our things and clean up our hostel, it still hasn't hit me that we are leaving Ljubljana tomorrow. I just won't believe it. Slovenia needs Jesus so much and we only began to scratch the surface of ministry potential here. I guess now I must leave it in God's hands and continue my prayer for the nation. It breaks my heart to leave this beautiful place. No more walking to the center, no more Cacao gelato, no more mexican pizza from Hombre. No more sitting at a cafe for hours at a time. No more struggling to stay standing up on the busses. No more.

No more speaking to Slovenes about God. No more telling them that they have a Savior. No more discussing the relativity of truth. No more nerves and hesitation to share the Gospel with them.

Still there are no regrets. The definition of successful Gospel sharing is stepping out in faith in the power of the Holy Spirit to tell others the Gospel and leaving the results up to God. I think we have done this. We have been faithful to God's calling to Slovenia and now we have to wait and see what happens today, tomorrow, next year, and in eternity. I hope and pray that I will be in Heaven one day and a Slovene will run up to me and tell me what part I played in him/her knowing God and how he/she is glad to have met me. I truly hope and know that we have made an impact here in Ljubljana and in the hearts of the university students.

Last week is a go!

Hey all!

As we head into our last week in Slovenia, we are praying that we will get to say a few last goodbyes to all the great Slovene friends we have made here, we get to have a few last discussions about Jesus and God, and that we can get our new friends in contact with the future STINT-ers for next year (STINT is like summer project, but for a whole year). If you can pray for all of these things, it would be wonderful!

This past Friday, we all made a day trip to Rovinj, Croatia! We went to the coast and swam in the Adriatic Sea! So amazing! God's creation is so very beautiful. We had a blast and we all got sunburnt! haha!

This week we got to see a few Slovenes come to Christ! We are very excited to have new brothers and sisters in Christ! Please pray for them that they will continue growing in Christ after we leave!

One was very much a divine appointment. She was living in another country when her parents needed to come back to Ljubljana. They were only going to be here for 2 days. God led 2 of our girls to talk to her when they saw her on the first day. That day, she accepted Christ! The next day, they met with her again, gave her a Bible and a book about who Jesus is and she came to our Thursday night party. The next day she had to leave. Only God could have orchestrated that!

Our schedule for this week is this:

Monday: Morning meeting, going out sharing/appointments with contacts, project dinner, and then free night

Tuesday: Sharing/appointments, free afternoon for saying goodbyes to Slovenes, and then Bible study and dinner with our action groups

Wednesday: PACKING and CLEANING our hostel. I can't believe we are so close to leaving!

Thursday: We will be traveling to Austria for our project de-briefing (wrap up)

Friday: Free day in Austria

Saturday: Get on an airplane in Munich and FLY HOME! WHAT?

I am excited to go home and see all my family and friends, but I am not ready to leave this country and project friends. I am glad I get to see all of you soon, though!

Pray for our safe travels and for the country of Slovenija!

Sorry for the wait!

Hello, readers.... if I even have readers....

'Tis the end of another week here in Slovenia. Time flies by too quickly, I tell you!

This past week I had a couple of good conversations. In particular, I had a conversation with a Slovene guy who seemed very close to understanding the Gospel, but he had two diversions: He didn't think that God answered prayer and he had a works-based idea of getting to Heaven. We had a kind of long conversation with him and went through the Gospel. At the end, we told him how he could receive Jesus and asked if that was something he desired. He said he thought it was. When we asked if he would like to pray to receive Christ, he hesitated and said that he would like to think about it some more. We got his contact information and we are hoping that we can have a follow up conversation with him in order to see what he is feeling about praying for Christ to come into his life. Please keep him in your prayers. :)

That is one of the only conversations that truly sticks out in my head for this week. We keep in continued contact with 2 girls we met week 1. It is very nice.

We had yet another grand adventure yesterday (Saturday). We went to Lake Bohinj and hiked to a waterfall. The hike was 5 miles each way and then 500 steps to get to the waterfall. We walked about 11 miles total yesterday and my feet are screaming at me. The waterfall shouted God's glory though and I am glad I got to see it, though I would have preferred to drive there ;).

There was a gazebo where people had written their names all over it with the date they were there and we wrote "Summer Project Slo 2011" and wrote our names, too. The day was quite a long one and we were all very tired, so we had a great night's sleep!

Today was our day of rest, we don't have anything scheduled until 6 pm, which is church. Tonight I am helping with children's church! I am very excited! :)

Again, I hope you will keep me in your prayers and minds. I thank the Lord for each of you!