Monday, December 31, 2007

Bulgaria

Well I am officially in the second country of my outreach and enjoying every minute. I have been in Bulgaria for the past week (over Christmas and now New Years.) We have been really busy. The church of Bulgaria is booming, small churches are rising up everywhere. The Harvest is great but the workers are few. Pastors here lead multiple churches and drive to many cities through the week and to hold meetings. We have been trying to make it to as many of the 42 churches as possible, we maybe not, but we are meeting with many of them. We performed many kids services which really made me excited to work with kids once again. Every church experience was different. we could not plan out a schedule of events until arriving at the building because we needed to see what space we had.
Its crazy here, every person knows and demonstrates the word HOSPITALITY. It is like running through their bones. It puts us to shame. They just want to bless us... yet they have nothing. Everywhere we go we are blessed with food, or lunch, or gifts. We have made house visits to sick old ladies... yet upon arriving at their house they have a table set with juice and cookies. One lady in particular really touched me. She could not walk and yet when we crammed into her small one room apartment she said to us "I am so sorry I have nothing to offer you, but I could not find anyone to go to the store for me." She was almost embarrassed to have nothing to offer us. We were just simply blessed by her smile and story.

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