greetings from east friesland...

well, we are halfway through our midterm outreach by now and all I can say is GOD IS GOOD!!
It is so amazing what he can do through a bunch of simple people who are willing to step out and to go where he sends them...
'up here' we are working together with a dutch couple who came here as missionaries about two years ago. it's really amazing to see how God has been preparing our trip/ our time here.
Like we have been invited to a school to take over 4 lessons of RE (religious education) -4 different groups, 2 tomorrow (thursday) and 2 on friday.
so we went there yesterday to kind of check out the place and do a prayer walk through the school. as we were walking along the hallways a teacher came out of one of the class rooms and invited us in - just like that. she wanted to know how we are, where we come from, what we do... complete openness, we ended up sharing for ten minutes! we had barely left this class when we ran into another teacher who knew our dutch friend btw. his name is André. He also wanted to meet with us and ended up inviting us into his class for this morning. So we spent almost 1,5 hours in his class this morning just talking about who we are, what a dts is, where we come from,playing games with them, sharing testimonies and we were even allowed to pray with them! It was simply awesome! Or rather God is awesome! And everything really fit together. We could literally feel God's presence and the Holy Spirits guidance among us.

To be honest I feel a little spellbound and overwhelmed by what God is doing here in this nation - in MY nation! And also just this sincerety and openness we meet everywhere we go...
cause I mean I have been to a lot of schools in Norway e.g. but there we were always cautioned to be careful with what we say and with our wording and such things....
but nothing of that sort here... just open hearts, open doors...
we could also sense this in our intercession+ worship times here at the house or like yesterday afternoon where we took a 'prayer drive' through the area, stopping at different places in between to really pray and intercede for this area, this nation and for europe... the spiritual hunger and thirst of this dry dry land.

we still have some more program and also intercession today, tomorrow and on friday before heading back 'home' on saturday. which is about 8 hours drive - not including lunch break or hopefully non-existend traffic jams...

so what to say? except for SOLI DEO GLORIA!!!
(this is latin and means to God alone be the glory)
hanna