fishin' at the north sea

This is a look backwards... since my blog is new I'm still wanting to share about cool stuff from the months "B.B." ("before Blog"). In September ( our "summer break" for colleges here) we took students for several days on a mission trip to the North Sea. We helped a Baptist church doing a city-wide outreach (more like a village /city) and tent revival.

Here I am with our new friend there Jaclin, a champion high school athlete, whose openness won our hearts! Experiences with friends like this reminded me of the photo above: God is the kind and persevering Fisherman.

We led discussions in English classes at the high school. And on the tent grounds we played games with kids & did crafts, shared our faith around the campfire with teens, and also in the evenings helped with praise music, drama & interpreting at the worship services. There were 2 visiting pastors from South Africa there, as well as a well-known German evangelist named Helmut Gohr.

Stefan from our group interpreted into German at a crazy pace, trying to keep up (& doing well) with their loud, fast-paced preaching (uncharacteristic for more subtle and subdued Germans!), which was delivered in a strong African- British accent.

This region of Germany has it's own breath-taking & serene, yet wild look-- windmills & moors, ocean & "watt (ocean floor mud-- oozy!) wandering" as well as docks linking the North Sea (thus the Atlantic) to the Baltic Sea.