A New Day

Ahhh, it feels good to be back at home after 10 days of travelling. The time in Turkey was really great- full of funny stories and meaningful activities. It is hard to narrate everything that happened. Maybe I will just tell some highlights of the trip for those of you who might have been praying for us, or who are just interested.

- halfway through the trip we were in a 5.0 earthquake. it wasn’t as bad as a 5.0 sounds. nothing fell of the walls or anything; we were all in bed when it occurred. it was the first significant earthquake i have been in though.
- we were able to give out 50 packets filled with new testaments, vcds about house churches, and vcds of the jesus film.
- several of those went to imams and one went to an assistant mayor of a village who approached us!
- i have seen the most beautiful place on earth- Van Lake. check it out. mountains, islands, clouds, water, plains– all in one single shot.
- i learned the reality of the spiritual state of turkey– in the entire county of turkey, there are only 3500 known turkish believers (to put this in perspective, in istanbul alone- there are about 14 million people). this put into perspective the saying, “missions exists because worship doesn’t”.
- two of our team members passports, money, plane tickets, ids, etc were stolen. this re-routed our trip, but things still worked out wonderfully.
- I ate more fast food in the last 10 days than i have all of the last school year.

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