City Walk

Well today I led a tour through the shelter Jordan it was my first tour, however i had a slow afternoon cafe shift this week and in that time i revised the tour into my own still covering the same amount of information.
This morning I had seven guests join me for my walk. They were all women and we had a good time.
Its a kewl way to continue to develope relationships with our guests. This evening i had a great conversation with a lady that came on the tour this morning.
Its kewl how when you share a little bit of yourself with people it makes them comfortable.

Today i went to the Albert Koop Markt, and i had my first freshly made stroop wafel i was so excited because i've been craving one ever since i heard they exsisted.
That was a highlight!

Well i'm heading out... nighty night

Smit day

This Saturday was my Pake and Beppe's 55th wedding celebration
i got to see and hang out with cusins i hadn't seen in five years
it was great! we hung out in the country and in the afternoon we did a GPS hunt thing... it was good times..
we spent the night with my Om Gert n' Tante Janke and hung out with our cusins there
one of my younger cusins made marika and i a balloon and gave it to us before we left so i attached it to my bag... when we were traveling on the train every kid that saw the balloons were wide eyed..
one kid even said as she was passing by to get off 'dag vrow met de ballon','good bye lady with the balloons'

Baptism

So Friday was an exciting day very busy...
i had morning cafe, staff meeting, then we set up for hostel night outreach, went to Tobys baptism, came back to host hostel night.
Tobys story...
so Toby was a guest the Shelter City(the shelter where Marika works)
He started to work as a cleaner and started to read the bible... He loved the peace he felt after reading it and soon just couldn't put it down... he began to attend every bible discussion... soon after making a desision to follow God he was done his month as a cleaner and had to move on God provided a job for him and he stayed at our hostels... As the shelter family the managers asked him if he was serious about his desision to follow Christ and asked him if he wanted to be baptised...

This is another one of the lives that God has been working in that we have a privolage to be part of.

great night, God at work

so I had a really great day today did morning cafe and had a chillin afternoon which ended in a biblestudy in the book of Hosea with a gurl in our community house.
After that i had a huge heart to heart with God laying everything on the table.
I kinda regained vision through that. I went to the Hostel again for dinner and bible study that i was schedualed to attend. However there wasn't anyone intrested in the discussion so instead of giving up Tim (the bible leader) and I scatered into the crowd and i played a game with three German girls later Tim and another guy joined us. Eventually Tim asked the guy if he still wanted to do the discussion and we all decided to do it! It was great we discussed our conflict in life between our seeking justice and mercy. We also pointed to Jesus being the only way this conflict is perfectly solved. Gods true justice being satisfied and mercy in Christ.
I love explaining the gospel because it always confirms the truth and reality in it to myself also.
The guy also had a cool story of how he was seeking for more and left america to find freedom and himself. On the flight over a missionary sat beside him and talked his ear off telling him his testimony and about his relationship with God. It changed this guys life and his first day at our hostel he processed it and recomitted his life to Christ. By nothing we did but to Gods glory. Now its cool because we are able to guide him and encourage his young relationship with God!!!
God is awesome so beyond i ever thought or imagined!

ministry and life

Yes its been busy here in the shelter ministry in Amsterdam people are leaving and not enough people are coming so we are a little stressed and spread thinly here which makes taking time to talk to the guests and interact with them less likly.
However every evening we have a bible discussion at 7:30. One of us staff is schedualed to be a bible leader and one of us is schedualed as attender. We invite guests to join us. Its really great to see the diversaty of people that come and the questions that are produced at these dicussions.
This Tuesday i was schedualed as bible leader and i got really stressed out, any way i ended up preparing a bit but my attender and i had a hard core prayer time before we started and God really took over. Its the first bible leading that i did that i am confident and satisfied at the out come. God always does his thing and speaks to our guests or cleaners where their at.
Yesterday a guy from cali who was running from God came to amsterdam searching for more he just flew to euope to spend three months just sorta figuring out life. He had some great conversations with staff and last night told us how he made a re-comitment to God and is excited about following Christ.

Prayer requests:
-God would raise up more staff members to partner in this ministry
-my digestion problem has come back
-protections on present stafff so they will be focused on God as priority