Connexxion Staff are SUPER!

Life is never boring with Connexxion. We have tons of fun with our ministry full-time staff and they are a constant JOY! For instance, when Anja & Vera collaborated in teaching us all a country- western style dance at the fall retreat! yee- haw! 

But here's proof that we also WORK: plan, pray and strategize together, too! (notice all the laptops!)

It's cool to have "history" together-- I've known several of them a number of years, such as Thomas K. and Anja G., who were students in our group years ago and then "graduated" to serve on staff later. 

Above are our Jena, Germany staff: Anja & Thomas K., who married less than a year after he came on staff. Anja (pronounced "an-ya") has done associational youth work and he works half-time as a computer programmer and analyst. Vera is super intellegent & graduated this year with a degree in bio-chemistry. She was greatly influenced by Thomas (& others) when she committed her life to Christ. Vera came on staff in April, & will be doing a 3-month campus ministry internship starting in January in Georgia, USA.

Above are our wonderful present staff in Braunschweig - Vincent from Georgia who studied public administration and has never met a stranger! Birthe, who studied social work, and is now at a seminary extension center located in our church facilities in Braunschweig. We got to be roommates for 2 months this year, when she had a soccer injury. And Anja, who graduated from Southwestern Seminary in the summer, and is leading the ministry there. She and I served together in Jena for 3 years already. Then we overlapped just a short, crazy (but blessed!) month before I moved to Spain, and were roommates while she helped me pack up my apartment there. What a help!

In November I traveled "home" to Germany for 2 retreats (Freizeiten). Our fall campus retreat, as well as a staff retreat, where I got to re-connect with friends.