Letting God Speak
When I am stressed or don’t know where to turn to in God’s Word, my go to place is Philippians. It’s my favorite book of the Bible and even though it’s only four chapters long it’s packed with so much amazing insight and conviction. With the start of January I decided to go back to my favorite book and read it again, to see if God wanted to tell me anything new. He did, there were several new things that stuck out to me and other things that had a new meaning. How Paul prays for Philippi: First thing he prays for is that their love may abound more and more and that it would be with knowledge… Read more >>
Holiday Season in Berlin
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years have all come and gone, I have survived the holidays away from home! It wasn’t without a fair amount of challenges though. But mixed in with the homesickness was great joy, lots of laughter, and God’s love. Thanksgiving So if you didn’t realize it, Thanksgiving isn’t celebrated in Germany. This wasn’t something that really crossed my mind until I was here and there was no advertisements and talk of Thanksgiving. The day was just another day here for everyone, except for Beth, Kelsey, and… Read more >>
Adjusting to the Environment
I come from a pretty small city; there are only about 70,000 people there. Back home I could go just about anywhere and I would run into someone I knew. My family actually started to make fun of me because we could never go out without me seeing a friend or acquaintance. I got very accustomed to being at a store or the local coffee shop and striking up a conversation with the workers because I knew the people and enjoyed interacting with them. Now I live in Berlin, where there are 3.5 MILLION people; Berlin is 50 times larger than my hometown! Talk about a change of environment. The city is… Read more >>
A Wandering Whirlwind
Where do I begin… these past couple weeks have been such a whirlwind! From the end of support raising, to packing and getting on a plane, to living in Germany- there are so many stories I could tell. (I preface with this because even as I’m typing this I have no idea what I want to write about, so excuse me if I ramble and process a bit.) So to those who didn’t know, there was a chance I wasn’t going to have my support by my departure date, I still had a long way to go with a very little bit of time; but as always, God provided. It was amazing to see the way God brought people around the… Read more >>