Well friends and family, I am going to attempt to fit 3 weeks into this one blog. We’ll see how it goes haha;) We started our regular schedules for the most part 2 weeks so life has been full of interesting adventures and surprises. On Sunday nights I work with Scout Hut which is pretty much a ministry for the unchurched kids that live around Glenwood Church. The purpose of this ministry is to build relationships with these kids and give them an alternative activity. One must remember though that these are not church kids, and so they aren’t going to act like church kids. It was a bit overwhelming at first. We were praying before everything started and all of the sudden the kids start banging on the trailer for us to let them in. After all the noise they were making, I wasn’t sure exactly what was going to come through the door but we let them in at 6. It was all a blur when everything started because they all ran in and there was one kid that had crutches that was purposefully sticking them in everyone’s hot chocolate they had and then wiping it on people, there was one kid that kept turning up the boom box in the building until it wouldn’t go any louder, and before I knew it the kid that had previously been on crutches was now on top of my chair without the crutches dancing (evidently he stole someone else’s crutches HAHA). The overwhelming feeling soon went away though, and I wound up playing foosball with two girls named Chloe and Lauren. We talked most of the night, and I really hope they continue to come. Monday mornings are staff meetings. Then Monday afternoons I go into the elementary schools with Aly the children’s worker at Glenwood to help kids with reading. I absolutely love it, and it’s awesome to see kids progressing in their reading skills:) As you know most American schools are against mixing with churches, and Europeans schools are even worse. So helping the kids read is a great foot in the door here because we are meeting a need and getting a chance to interact with the kids. Monday nights I will be joining a Bible Study for university students. University just started back here so I have not been able to go yet, but I look forward to building relationships there. Tuesday mornings two other American girls, Carrie and Jenifer, and then myself have kids work training led by Aly and the other Glenwood kids worker Lynda. We have a book we’re going through together and then Lynda and Aly will train us throughout our time here. On Tuesday afternoons I help with Friendship which is a group of older people literally aging from 50-95. They get together and sing hymns, share prayer requests, and have a short lesson. I get there early to set the chairs and microphone up…me and technical stuff don’t really get along so that’s always interesting haha;) I was so blessed last week at Friendship though because I had sat beside one of the older ladies named Joy at church the past Sunday and talked with her for a bit. Well Joy not only remembered my name at Friendship, but she had homemade blackberry and apple jam for me! Wednesdays I work on something called The Gate Project. I described The Gate in my last blog as a center for all the different arts. Well Garrett, Pamela, and I have been assigned to figure out the dynamics of the surrounding community and find out how The Gate can best serve the community. So we are working on getting a survey together and mapping out the community. It is the thing that I am most excited about because it’s an awesome opportunity but also most nervous about because it’s a great responsibility in a small amount of time. Thursday our whole entire trainee team which is 18 of us come together and have a time of worship together, interview different staff members to find out what God has done in their life, and teach a lesson. Thursday nights I participate in a ministry called GNR8 (Just in case you’re like me and didn’t get it the first time- that says Generate). Pretty much it’s a discipleship program for I believe 9-11 year olds. Lynda has the kids that want to go deeper into the Word over to her house on Thursday nights, and they have dessert and then split up into small groups for discipleship. Friday mornings I have general service at Glenwood Church. I pretty much assist the financial person named Cian. I do all the fun exciting tasks of filing financial papers, entering bills into the computer, shredding papers, mailing things, and delivering things to the bank. Friday evenings I have Kidz Klub which is actually at Glenwood Church’s church plant of Bethania. It’s also pirate themed haha no worries this time I remembered to say YAR not ARGH! These kids do not come from well off families, and so our main thing is to make sure they know they have a safe place to come to on Friday nights where they can feel loved by us and more importantly by the Lord. Phew well that is a what my normal weeks will look like…however I’m realizing there aren’t too many “normal” weeks when you’re in ministry HAHA! The British word of the week is “Guttered” which you can use when you’re exhausted, mortified, or just out of sorts simply say “I am absolutely guttered” and sound British for the day haha;) Please pray for energy for the rest of our time here and that our team would have the same passion that we left the states with. Also please pray that we would be able to build relationships with those around us day to day. Thanks for reading all of this if you made it to end HAHA and all your support!