its a relatively quiet morning here.. we did a fair amount of prayer ministry over the last few days. Interesting to pray with folks we had never met...
We had the chance to attend part of a Yom Kippur jewish service last night. It was quite an experience to be attending synagogue in Moldova. We wandered around afterwards and had our first experience of ordering food on our own in Moldova.Thank God for menu's with pictures. Ironically,pizza here has no sauce..
We are planning to pray today as a team with Paul and Gala and talk about the rest of the week.THis evening we will attend a church leaders meeting.
Overall we are well. Looking forward to more of what God will do this week.
We miss you, but are glad to be here.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
sunday in moldova
from Katie :
The last two days have been a bit of a whirlwind of prayer ministry. a 5 hour prayer ministry class on Saturday (teaching via translation takes a bit of getting used to!) and a great sunday morning in church. Met wonderful Moldovans and saw God move as we prayed. Enjoyed an awesome sunday afternoon lunch, with our hosts, and Paul and Gala,a 3 hour meal! Heading to Jewish celebration and walk in the city tonight (surprisingly high jewish population in Chisinau and our host is part Jewish)
Jet lag hit some today.. but not badly. thanks for prayers , we sense them.
The last two days have been a bit of a whirlwind of prayer ministry. a 5 hour prayer ministry class on Saturday (teaching via translation takes a bit of getting used to!) and a great sunday morning in church. Met wonderful Moldovans and saw God move as we prayed. Enjoyed an awesome sunday afternoon lunch, with our hosts, and Paul and Gala,a 3 hour meal! Heading to Jewish celebration and walk in the city tonight (surprisingly high jewish population in Chisinau and our host is part Jewish)
Jet lag hit some today.. but not badly. thanks for prayers , we sense them.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Day 1
from Katie: It looks like we are all posting. There is lots to say.. :) Liz and I slept for 12 hours and the best part of waking up was drinking Peets coffee we brought. Our hosts are awesome, a great pastor and his family. 18 year old daughter is our translator. Jesus presence is obvious in this house, and I am humbled by their hospitality and generosity to us. I have the sense of being welcomed as an alien and stranger, in a wonderful way. Last night, in a wild twist, this family celebrates the Jewish Sabbath and we did that with a feast and ended with communion. I sensed perhaps what Paul meant when he wrote that we were members of one body, realizing we share the love of Jesus, and the forgivness of our sins, no matter what language we pray in.Been a great time.more to write soon. my ankle contiues to be ok. I brought only right shoes, since its been broken I have only needed one,but in faith brought a one left shoe in case I get healed. thanks for praying friends, we feel it!
First morning in Moldova
Our team seemed to have slept well last night. We were all quite tired.
Our friends here kept us up to at least 9pm so that we could battle jetlag better.
We will be doing the healing seminar today in a few hours from 4pm to 9pm or so here.
Please pray for us that God will show up and do awesome things today.
The guys are staying in an apartment that is on the 8th floor and the elevator sometimes works. It feels safer to take the stairs, however. The elevator makes all kind of uncomforting sounds when it moves. Chisnau is filled with towering concrete apartment complexes. It was nice to see that the Soviets hired an architect, it just happens to be one architect, one design and it has been used for the last 50 years!
Our friends here kept us up to at least 9pm so that we could battle jetlag better.
We will be doing the healing seminar today in a few hours from 4pm to 9pm or so here.
Please pray for us that God will show up and do awesome things today.
The guys are staying in an apartment that is on the 8th floor and the elevator sometimes works. It feels safer to take the stairs, however. The elevator makes all kind of uncomforting sounds when it moves. Chisnau is filled with towering concrete apartment complexes. It was nice to see that the Soviets hired an architect, it just happens to be one architect, one design and it has been used for the last 50 years!
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Everyone seemed to sleep well after our very tiring and long trip.
Matthew and I had a bit of an adventure in Frankfurt on the way here. We had a 4 hour layover and we decided to go into the city for a short visit. By the time we figured out how to get out of the Frankfurt airport, we only had 3.5 hours. We managed to get on a train heading to the city. We had only changed enough money for our train fare, because we forgot about lunch. While in Frankfurt we found an outdoor street fair that looked good. Unfortunately none of the booths took credit cards, so we used our return train fair to eat lunch. It was a great lunch, btw, of german rindwurst and fries. Then we went back to the train station and discovered that the train ticket machine only took European credit cards. Not to worry, there were several banks nearby. We went to the first one at 1:02 and discovered that banks close from 1pm to 2pm for lunch! I begged the clerk to just change $20 to Euros for us so we could get back to the airport. She said, no of course not, come back at 2pm. We are closed for it is after 1pm! All the other banks also were closed. Since our plane was leaving at 3pm and we still had to get to the airport and go through customs and security we were in trouble! We decided to hail a taxi. The taxi took us on the Autobahn and was going 180 km.hr (about 110 mph) while we whipped through traffic. When we got to the airport we ended up having to go through 3 separate security screenings because the airport was layed out in a really strange manner. So much for German engineering. We made it back in time for the flight, but realized that was a very expensive hotdog lunch! But, who knows when we will ever be back in Germany, so it was OK. It was an exciting part of our trip. Too exciting probably.
Matthew and I had a bit of an adventure in Frankfurt on the way here. We had a 4 hour layover and we decided to go into the city for a short visit. By the time we figured out how to get out of the Frankfurt airport, we only had 3.5 hours. We managed to get on a train heading to the city. We had only changed enough money for our train fare, because we forgot about lunch. While in Frankfurt we found an outdoor street fair that looked good. Unfortunately none of the booths took credit cards, so we used our return train fair to eat lunch. It was a great lunch, btw, of german rindwurst and fries. Then we went back to the train station and discovered that the train ticket machine only took European credit cards. Not to worry, there were several banks nearby. We went to the first one at 1:02 and discovered that banks close from 1pm to 2pm for lunch! I begged the clerk to just change $20 to Euros for us so we could get back to the airport. She said, no of course not, come back at 2pm. We are closed for it is after 1pm! All the other banks also were closed. Since our plane was leaving at 3pm and we still had to get to the airport and go through customs and security we were in trouble! We decided to hail a taxi. The taxi took us on the Autobahn and was going 180 km.hr (about 110 mph) while we whipped through traffic. When we got to the airport we ended up having to go through 3 separate security screenings because the airport was layed out in a really strange manner. So much for German engineering. We made it back in time for the flight, but realized that was a very expensive hotdog lunch! But, who knows when we will ever be back in Germany, so it was OK. It was an exciting part of our trip. Too exciting probably.
Friday, September 25, 2009
The eagle has landed (w/o a crash)
Katie, Liz, Jon and Matthew all have arrived safely - with our bags. We survived each others jokes on the 10 hr. flight to Frankfurt. Jon and Matthew are having a light dinner with Paul & Gala tonight, and Liz and Katie are having a dinner at Pastor Igor's. Chisinau looks little bit like cities Albania according to Jon, and to me looks a little bit like TJ. I am a little brain dead right now so I sign off. We thank you for praying for us!
In Frankfurt airport...
...finally . Jon and Matthew running around the city for a few hours having fun while we faithfully update the blog.... Good flight over and now waiting 3 hours for connection to Chisnau, Moldova. Please pray for a good seat for Katie and her ankle, which is achey now... Frankfurt airport is very clean and full of German things :)
Coffee tastes great thoug and we are trying hard to stay awake. Bless you, we miss you
Coffee tastes great thoug and we are trying hard to stay awake. Bless you, we miss you
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