so i recently (and by recently, i mean a few seconds ago) this blog has not been up dated in well over a month. i suppose that is okay because it means we've been busy... or it means that occasionally someone says, "hey, we should update the team blog" but then no one takes the initiative to actually write anything on here (assuming that it's always someone else's responsibility).
last week, we as a team had a retreat in western germany. we stayed in the small village of borkenwirthe in a little apartment above a church. we had a mini-silent retreat, played the card game 'scum' for many hours, had plenty of time to read and sleep and eat, went to the netherlands for the day (a 15 minute drive from where we were staying), helped with a church service at a healthy church plant, had some sessions with the director of MBMSI europe, and spent a day walking around the historic city of münster.
now we're back in berlin. four of us started german lessons last week. all four of us are at different levels of understanding and speaking the language, but thankfully we're all in the same class. our classmates are from all over the world: the philippines, china, italy, iran, and one from nyc, usa.
so, today is sunday. we finished the church service maybe an hour and a half ago. dinah and i are still here chilling (literally) at the church. raf preached today, and most of the team was involved in the music for the service. we had communion today and it was really cool: the entire congregation stood in a circle at the front of the church. we passed the bread and the wine (grape juice!) around the circle, then prayed together. it was actually very 'communal'.
that's about all i've got for you right now. maybe someone else will post some time.
maybe.
tschüss!
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