Athens, Greece....

After a 12 hour bus ride....followed by a 12 hour ferry ride I can now say I am in Greece!After waking up covered in marine mist and ferry soot, my friend Grace and I ran to the showers and quickly became human again...while laughing at our hair...that even without a hair clip would stay in a ponytail.....needless to say the ferry ride was interesting..and created many good laughs and memories :)





We were greeted by our Korean host who was the pastor of the church we would be staying with while we were in Athens :) we made some quick tourist stops in Corinth where the book of Corinthians was written!! it was so amazing to see the bible come alive! After that we went headed into Athens.....We were staying in what was called the "redlight district" of Athens where about 50 yards around where we were staying was considered "sin city"....with tons of prostitution and drug use....but dont worry mom and grandma we were 3 stories high above all of this lol :) and God really protected us :)

Our performances consisted of various street performances...one of them was in a park about a block away from where we were staying which was a huge hang out for many Muslim men....who would occupy themselves with all sorts of destructive pass times.....it is true that idlnesss leads to destruction....many of the people who occupied that park were refugees from the middle east.....so they found themselves out of work and kicked onto the streets with no hope....and no motovation besides they highs they felt from temporary sources....It was eye opening to say the least about how people can live so much of their life in sin....the devil is truly out to kill and to destroy us....Our performance there showed how hard the devil tried to win the performance for his glory that day....but our God has long had authority over him and though he fought hard he did not shadow the message we brought to the people in the park that day......The biggest revelation that I got through out that week was that people are desperate to hear what we have to say.....the harvest truly is plenty....but the workers are so few....

We also did a feeding ministry at the church we were staying where 150 people came and squished into a small room where we did our show for them :) also did I mention that it was record heat in Athens the whole week we were there! so it was very interesting and a little smelly....but it was amazing to be able to serve such a diverse group of people :)

We were in Athens for about 5 days then we moved onto Olympios which is the town that is at the foot of Mount Olympios...where many ancient Greeks believed that the gods would do their "god buisness..." what ever that may be....but to many Greeks today...it is still a sacred mountain...and many believe that it still holds power among its historic mark in Greek mythology....

We traveled by train over night in a cramped yet quite comfortable cabin compared to some of the other passengers that were on the train who were forced to sleep along the isles and in small cramped corners...So we were thankful for the excxuse to sit down....along with the air conditioning!! which has become a rare occurance since we have been in Europe...! did I mention that while we were in Athens they had some record tempertures for this time of year......so we had become very used to sweating all the time.......

We were told that we were going to be camping in tents when we got to Olympios...and were pleasently suprised that we got little bungelows with running water and electricity....the camp that we are staying at is conveniantly close to the beach....so we can shower in the beautiful ocean when ever there is no water left in the showers :)

We have joined with another Greek church for our outreach in Northern Greece and are performing every night for the next 10 days! It has been very physically straining on all of our bodies especially me and many other of the dancers...so please keep us in your prayers so we can fully give all that we can give and not get sick or get hurt...Thank you all somuch for your continued support and love! I could not have made it this far with out everyones prayer and support!!!! I Love you guys :)

Sicily :)

I am taking adventage of this awesome internet access while I can..becasue I can't promise that I will be able to access internet at all in Greece or Egypt....but I will continue to update while I go through those countries and fill you in on all the details :)

Our time in Sicily has been awesome! We are staying on what is called a "Marine reach ministry ship"! It is a ministry that is under YWAM and has helped set us up while we have been in Sicily.....they are traveling around Italy... with a festival called the "Festival of Life" and we have joined together with churchs in the area and have used our performance and other performers from around the area to be able to reach people through the performing arts :) the amazing thing is that the 5 christian churchs in Sicily have never worked together before, and have always had alot of division through out the church....and through the Festival of life they have all come together as one body to make this festival possible.....we witnessed history....and i know that God will continue to stregthen the churches relationships with eachother....and through it produce more christian churches through out Sicily!

It has been awesome to see Gods plans for us being on outreach unfolding before us.....and i know that in Greece and Egypt He has even more in store...!!

We leave fore Greece tomorrow! We have about 24 hours of travel time overall....so that should be a good chance to catch up on some much needed sleep :) please keep my team in your prayers heavily this week becasue of all the civil termoil goin on in Greece right now and pray that God will protect us and that he will stregthen us and keep us safe and healthy! I love all of you somuch and I will update you as soon as I can!

The long awaited internet access!!!!

I promise I havent forgotten about all of you back home!! And I am alive and well ;) We have lived the past few weeks in seclusion from the internet :) I will try and be as detailed as I can about the past few weeks here in Italy...yet also very precise...because I could probably fill an hours about the awesome things that God is doing here in Italy....but I will share some of the highlights about what we have been doing :)

We finished in Switzerland and took a 12 hour bus ride to Rome, Italy...I have learned to love traveling because it gives our whole team an excuse to sit and do nothing! and I have really come to appriciate being confined to a bus seat with absolutly nothing to do but rest and process all the things that we have learned...and also prepare for all of the things that we are going to learn in Italy! It is truly amazing how different Italy is compared to Switzerland.....there is trash on the ground..and they dont have the same emphasis on cleanliness like their fellow neighbor...but the biggest shock to me was the people....The Swiss are more quiet and reserved...and the Italian are everything but....!!!It has been so cool to see the diversity in not only the geography but a difference in perspective showcased through out the people!

Moving onto Roma! we spent the first three days doing some sight seeing through out the ancient city! The first day We toured all the major tourist-y places like the Colosseum, The Trevi Fountain, many ancient ruins!!, The Roman Opera House and the Spainish Steps (one of the most romantic places in Italy ;)......And this was only in the first day!!!

The second day was our biblical history touring day which God used so powerfully in my life.....

The whole day our main focus was of Paul's travels through Rome and eventually where he was beheaded....Our first stop was the Water channel that was masterfully engineered to allow fresh water to run all the way through out the city....and in many parts of the huge aquaduct would still be able to function, because of how intrecatly they were designed! They said that the area surrounding the aquaduct was a market place where they said the Paul preached shortly after he arrived in Rome.....

Our next stop was the oldest road in Rome.....It stretched hundreds and hundreds of miles and was the road that Paul walked on and preached....it was also one of the main reasons for Rome historical success as a empire...because it allowed many merchants and travelers access to the empire....while increasing Romes power through out the surround in lands....We walked for about an hour along this road in silence to allow God to speak to each of us individually...and He really did.....The biggest revelation I got was that while walking on the road I felt so close to God....His precence was overflowing onto each stone that formed the road.....And he said that this is how He is all over the world....His presence is overflowing on this earth....many just arent receptive to it......He wants to poor out His love and presence over all of us....but it is our human nature that always seems to find ways to distract us from feeling Him in every breath we take.....it was so beautiful and I feel so blessed to have the operitunity to walk in the footsteps of and apostle of Jesus.......

Our next stop was the Roman Catacombe where hundreds of Christians took refuge underground for 300 years while they were being pursecuted!! I was so humbled by their sacrifice for their faith....to give you an idea of how big the Catacombe is there was a japanese couple that was touring and they wandered off and got lost...and they have never found their bodies......it was insane, and a little scary how huge it was....

After that we went to Saint Peters Vasilica! I was in absolute shock......I have never seen somany roman staues in my life.....We were able to see all of the Popes memorials underneath the Vasilica...and where able to witness and appriciate ALOT of Catholic history :)


Those were only some of the awesome things that we were able to see while we were touring Rome...God is dramatically transforming my world view each and every day that I am on outreach...and I know that He will continue too for the remaining days on outreach :) Please keep me in your prayers for I feel all of your love and support each and every day :) I love you all and I will write another blog to inform you of our outreach in Sicily!!! :)