Friday, August 27, 2010

Northern Greece

We teamed up with a ministry in Athen's for ten days to perform and share the gospel.........We stayed most of the time at a beautiful camp ground next to this amazing beach.....we stayed in little yurts.......so it didn't feel exactly like camping.........but we got back really late every night.....we went out just about every night to different towns to perform.....it was exhausting and a lot of our team got sick......but luckily God was good to me and kept me healthy......:)....It was really awesome to get to know other Christians staying strong in something that is really hard at times.......There is only 15,000 evangelical Christians in all of Greece......so its really hard for these ministries to keep going with little support from the outside world..........So I will be praying for my new Greek friends and their ministry........We were able to visit some really historical biblical places.....we performed at Thessolonika where there was a ton of spiritual warfare our microphones blew up for the actors leaving only one workable microphone.........however someone that was just walking buy ready to commit suicide saw our performance and changed there hearts to bring hope to there heart.........despite all the hardships God always wins and works it whatever circumstance possible..... 3 other of the performanaces was small street performances in little towns and it was a lot of fun we almost got kicked out of one town because we didn't have the permission to perform so we did it anyways lol............During the day we ate really good Greek food :) I gave up on trying to watch my figure and start enjoying whatever comes at me :) We were able to have a couple hours of free time during each day to get on the internet or go swimming on the beach...... We had to spend two other nights in the city Drama and it was a lot of fun and the girls slept in the sanctuary with air conditioning :).There was a really yummy dish that was my favorite so far it was greek salad with ground beef rolled in this really goood cheese so gooooood.... We were really encouraging to the pastor and his wife who were super friendly :) On our way back to our last place to stop to perform we were able to stop in the town Philippi where Paul visited and wrote Philippians....I was able to walk all around this ancient place for free luckily there was some really nice people that let us in for free :) I got to see the jail Paul was in prison......pretty amazing every time I read the book Philippians I can now picture this ancient place....... We also performed at a camp twice....the first time it was a lot of teenagers......they loved every moment of our performance and had some awesome fellowship with them.....this girl Kristina even gave me an awesome bracelet.....so amazing.......the second time we performed at the camp there were a lot of families......so they loved it so much....it was our last performance of the trip so it was a tired ending but it was good also........right after that we had to depart to Athens by train.......the train arrived around 12 am and it was the worse train ride ever.....we paid for seats and people took all our seats so we had to kick most of them out I felt really bad..........sleeping on the train was almost impossible because there little monkey kids were getting our attention the whole time playing with the three of us in our seat.....they didn't like that I was falling asleep they would poke me and play with me while I was trying to sleep.........We finally made it back to Athen's at six in the morning.........

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