Sunday, February 10, 2008

Back from Spain Conference

I'm still jet-lagged and groggy eyed from our Spain conference. Good time there. it was great to see the teams from around the Area of Affairs get encouraged and refreshed after months on the battlefield. I was encouraged to hear a lot of stories of young men and women coming to Christ in the heart of Old Europe. Many of us in the west have given up on Europe. But God is doing a new work there. Even in France there were encouraging stories of students coming to Christ and spiritually interested. Praise God! Nerja is a nice little place on the mediterranean sea. I had a haircut there by a man named Luis. I saw him several times throughout the week as I would walk back and forth from the hotel to the internet cafe where I would call Kristen. I really wish there could have been more time to chase down guys like Luis and the cab driver I rode in with. I forget the cab drivers name but he played on the national soccer team for Uruguay against Pele some 30-35 years ago. Very interesting man. I left him a gospel track as we departed into the hotel. I'm praying he will read it...So we're back in Portland and getting into the groove...

3 comments:

Iwan, Julia said...

Welcome back, lyagushka-puteshestvennitsa! Don't think I'm being rude calling you a frog-traveller. This is how Russians refer to people who travel a lot. I just thought you might need some Russian vocabulary for a change.

Anonymous said...

slushai, ya starius naiti vozmoshnost poexat k vam. poka nye poluchaetsa. nada molitsa. spasibo za eto...kztati

Iwan, Julia said...

Konechno, Misha! Budem molitsa. Priez*ay! Budem o4en rady. V marte v Jakarte budut amerikantsy iz TN. My s Iwanom nadeemsya pouchastvovat v proekte v East Timor. Molis, pozhaluysta. U menya kak raz budut vesennie kanikuly v detskom sadu.
Predstavlyaew, ya izuchayu koreyskiy s 2 mamami moih uchenikov!!! Mozhet, ya kogda-nibud v Koree okazhus? Iwan govorit, chto hotel by sluzhit v kommunisticheskoy strane... Tak chto 'anyong ge si o!', chto v perevode znachit 'Do svidaniya!', esli ya ne oshibayus.