Storying Outreach - Muslim Immigrants in Europe
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Babysitting
The other day, I ended up walking six children down the street to our holiday club. I had already planned to babysit two of the kids for the day, but then we picked up a couple of the neighbor kids to go with us and ended up running into another family on the way. Thankfully, it was only a few blocks to the church building because a couple of these kids can be fairly erratic. But how did I end up babysitting for a family I don’t know super well? I wondered (and stressed) about that for the week leading up to the holiday club. One of my new friends “B” had some family stuff going on and needed... Read more
Technology
Technology is great. I love that I can stay in touch with friends and family even though I’m so far away from home. Handwritten letters are to be appreciated, but texts and video calls are more immediate, and I’m thankful for that. Recently, I’ve also noticed that technology is helpful within ministry programs. Our moms and tots group started up again a few weeks ago, and while it normally takes a couple weeks for everyone to get back into the routine of attending, we actually had an amazing turnout the first two weeks of the term. Over summer break, we started a WhatsApp group with all the... Read moreReset
August is a quiet month here. Because school is out for summer, most of our ministry programs shut down and a lot of my friends and coworkers leave the country at one point or another. People are filtering back in now, ministries will start up in September, and things will be "normal" again. It feels like we're about to hit a reset button. I have been here almost six months, and throughout that time, we have had four short term interns arrive and leave. Each overlapped another at some point, so we haven't been without short-termers since the end of March. As of two days ago, the last of them... Read more